How about having a policy like the credit card companies have about disputed charges -- a provider could dispute the review -- and it would be kept, but marked as disputed while being investigated. After an investigation period either the review would be removed, or the mark would be removed.
I notice that, increasingly, discussion here on TER is commandeered by certain self-appointed policemen who call into question the authenticity of various reviews. Fully half of the threads started on the Los Angeles board these days, for example, are allegations that this review is false and that one is a self-review, etc. This can be fun sometimes, but it wears thin.
There seems to be a perception that a first-time or single review is always a fake. Why? What if someone is simply new to TER? There isn't a fixed membership pool here, after all, is there?
What if you pay for VIP membership and just don't write reviews - either because you don't like to or don't have time to? I have written a total of 4 in my life; one here, three on a regional board where TER doesn't have a big presence. I pay for VIP membership. Is my review here invalid because I don't see fifty escorts a year and write in detail about them every single time?
My suggestion is this: a field that indicates whether or not the reviewer is a VIP member and if so, the date that he became a member, and whether or not his membership is current or lapsed.
Free VIP membership credit for reviews submitted makes writing false ones easier. Obviously, my suggestion wouldn't be a magic bullet, but the slim likelihood that someone would pay $200 a year to write a single review would make the process of sniffing out the real ones from the BS ones a little easier.
How does that sound?
I don't disagree with you. And I'm probably stating the obvious here and I hope I'm not helping the fake writers with this. But first time reviewers become *especially" suspicious when their review is about someone that has never been reviewed before. And when that review is about someone whose photos are TGTBT and the rating is often 9's and 10's.
How about having a policy like the credit card companies have about disputed charges -- a provider could dispute the review -- and it would be kept, but marked as disputed while being investigated. After an investigation period either the review would be removed, or the mark would be removed.