I went through a period where I helped run a couple of significantly sized monger boards. We tried to institute review standards to make them more usable. So, I wrote a guide for the guys to follow to characterize every number from 1 through 10 for all the basic categories from looks to service and attitude.
Even then there were quite a few disputes over the difference between subjective and objective numerical ratings.
Some people review movies subjectively, too. You have people who didn’t like a movie. To them that means it deserves a 1. Or at least some number below 5. But if you go down through the objective criteria you find the movie actually was an overall 6 or 7. But maybe it just dealt with subject material that the reviewer found objectionable. So the whole movie was downgraded for that sole reason. But if you rate a movie a 1 that means - to anyone expecting an objective review - that the acting was terrible, the script made no sense, the production values were at the level of one of the slow kids in first grade and so on. Movies that are actually that bad and get released to the theaters are extremely rare if not actually nonexistent.
All of the above applies to provider reviews, too.
So people who only understand subjective ratings write nearly useless reviews unless you have quite a few samples from them that you can cross reference with people who write objective reviews.
You frequently can’t even readily predict if someone will be a subjective or objective reviewer. People who seem quite technical and objective about other things (and of course then think that anything they write is objective simply because they wrote it) can write absolutely crap reviews. Because they can’t recognize their own biases, which can be major. But they’ll never see, much less admit, those biases, of course. And, if you can’t figure out those biases they deny they have, their reviews will usually not be useful in predicting anyone else’s experience with the same girl.
To net this out, Jensen, I completely agree. The more categories you have the more areas of dispute. And the more you have to get to know the reviewing quirks of the community in order to figure out the actual meaning of the reviews. The larger the community the closer to impossible that becomes.
Based on my past experience, I’ve developed my own approach for interpreting reviews that works for me. I have to decide on a set of reviews for a girl I’m thinking of seeing that actually reveal something useful about the quality of experience those reviews represent. I assign each author of those reviews what is essentially a standard deviation from 100% reliable that I call their YMMV value. I also assign the girl herself a YMMV value.
And then I look for the characteristics that I have found most likely to lead to an enjoyable session for me and, based on the above, the probability that the girl in question will bring those to a session with me.
It sounds more complicated and labor intensive than it is. And I’ve had pretty great success with this approach.
Of course all of the above is useless with a FOTB girl. If I decide to take a plunge with a girl like that it will be because there is a group of senior girls that I know take training their juniors seriously. This is less common than it used to be though.
Anyway, this is just my take on the whole idea of ranking or categorizing kgirls.
Have fun.