BG, I'm, glad you addressed the fundamental point I was making which is why the title of your post is confusing. It can take a week for all I care, but the question is: what's happening during that time?
OK so I got it wrong and it's not the moderators but the staff. Get over it already. That's not the point.
I've already said that I don't care how long it takes. The fact is, it does take time, and I'm assuming it's because someone is looking over the reviews. But enough fake reviews get through that I'm wondering what the actual evaluation process is. I'll say it again: the time it takes is irrelevant.
Whenever we submit reviews it usually takes a day or two to post. It was always my thinking that the moderators actually sift through the reviews first, but seeing the number of phony reviews that get through, I'm beginning to wonder.
So why does it take so long to post a review?
moderators don't pass on reviews. That is the job for the guys in the booth, so to speak.
The moderator's job is to keep our desk pushed apart and make sure we play nicely. Thanks guys and gals for that.
As for the guys in the booth, I've had some problems with what they let get in and what I've had to change, but all in all I think they do a decent enough job.
As far as how long it takes, well, what's your hurry in the first place?
I don't care how long it takes.
My question was "what's going on during that time?" I don't know if the "guys in the booth" are doing a decent job or if it's just that the majority of reviews are real.
I'd say that they are picking their way through them in the order they arrive. If a large number come in at once, you can see how that might create a backup in the system.
Maybe some reviews languish a day or more while they consider the pros and cons, or they send them to other people to referee them if there are some questionable things about them.
Just my guess though.
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Moderators have absolutely nothing to do with the review process. All reviews are done by one group 'Staff'. The same people do reviews for the entire country, so alot depends on how many reviews are submitted on a given day, I have had reviews approved and posted within 10 minutes, especially if you submit it on a Tuesday or Wed. evening. If you submit on the weekends it will almost surely take a day or two, I don't think they work on Sundays.
I've had the same experience. Sometimes a review goes up within hours, sometimes it takes days. As for fake reviews getting by, I think the word "obvious" is in the eye of the beholder. I've seen fake reviews go up for ladies that I have seen many times. Sometimes it is a case of reviewer enhancement(either his or the lady's, go figure!) sometimes it's an out and out fake. The criteria for a review getting approved is is pretty simple: The contact info has to be verifiable and the review has to contain enough detail to pass muster....there is really no way for the folks approving these things to know what actually went on during the appointment. We are dealing, to a large extent, with the honor system here.
The provider (or her agency) is really the only one who can complain to "staff" when she sees an obvious fake review about herself.
BG, I'm, glad you addressed the fundamental point I was making which is why the title of your post is confusing. It can take a week for all I care, but the question is: what's happening during that time?
OK so I got it wrong and it's not the moderators but the staff. Get over it already. That's not the point.
I've already said that I don't care how long it takes. The fact is, it does take time, and I'm assuming it's because someone is looking over the reviews. But enough fake reviews get through that I'm wondering what the actual evaluation process is. I'll say it again: the time it takes is irrelevant.
I really don't understand what you are asking. Reviews come in, they may sit in a folder for an hour ,a day or a few days before someone reads them and checks that the contact info is correct. As I said before, that is really all that can be checked. No one is calling models and saying "did you really do XYZ with this guy". You are over-complicating what is really a very simple process. Fake reviews happen, there is no way to avoid it.