Very true if you literally go by "once", but if we did go by "once" then the rating would almost never be used.  The point system that TER uses for higher ratings is perhaps a better thing to judge a 10 with along with how ofter the reviewer uses it in other reviews.  When I see someone with a bunch of 10s, I know they are not all really "once".  What I do know is they seem to consistently get enough points to reach 10 provided the reviewers all seem legit.  

Is there review inflation here?   Sure.  If first impressions are good, a higher rating tends to be given even though the reviewer might start seeing issues with the lady with additional visits.  I can only think of one lady I reviewed where I later thought to myself, "what the 'F' was I thinking" after later visits.  It took more than one visit to start seeing what an unreliable spaced out flake she was.  Then to top it off, she has slowly started using photos that are either not her, or her from a long time ago.  In fact, I almost accidentally contacted her again once because her newer photos were now that different.  The only reason I didn't contact her was that I had flagged her identifying number to avoid. I was sitting there thinking, why did I flag this?  Then after checking better, I realized who it was.  

One thing I will say, what review inflation there is here is not as bad as can be found in certain other locations.  You can probably thank the TER point systems for that.  

Well now that a 50+ 300lb woman can garner a 9 or 10 in looks  it means that Lea Seydoux is at least a 100.  
Part of it is that wokedom has told people that there is nothing wrong to be morbidly obese and you should flaunt it to the world regardless of the levels Diabetes and joint pain you experience.

As for performance ratings, well, let's just say that the momma's boys here would never want to hurt the feelings of a total ripoff.

As we all know looks are subjective.
In this PC world models are all shapes and sizes, regardless of what the model is representing, clothes, shoes, makeup, cars and etc.
So, does it mean a Victoria Secret or SI type of model?
IDK if I'd give them a 10!  
When I give a 9, IMO, the girl can model with strawberries for all I care, I think she rates the 9!
Just the way I see it!

 
As far as giving a 10, well that has to be really special service and looks, I don't give them lightly!

....for many many reasons, including exaggerations, misjudgements and outright lies. Like most things in life, they are to be taken with a grain of salt.

I've been on this board for 20 years, and like the rising and setting of the sun, you can count on a couple of things:  At least once a month, someone will start a thread about how high. rates are getting; at least as often someone will start a thread about whether providers fake everything (including their tolerance of us players); and equally often someone will start a thread complaining about "how bad" the scoring has gotten.

As I've said before, the whole thing is subjective and of course there will be differences of opinion about what to make of scoring for looks.  No one has yet established a single, unified "model" of what type of look constitutes a particular score; the system defaults to a subjective, personal assessment of whether the lady has to be built like a runway model, or whether that hot woman next to you in the yoga class is a good template for a 10.  Of course, runway models don't appeal to everyone, so in someone's book she might not constitute a 10.  Which is what all this is about.  I've read numerous suggestions for changing that score--for example, it could be dropped in favor of a score indicating simply whether the lady matches her pictures.  But whatever we come up with, I think we can agree that it will never be perfect, at least as long as every player has individual tastes.  

The explanation that "wokism" or some other nefarious -ism is at fault is facile and misunderstands human nature.  Of course we all see beauty differently and have different opinions.  And of course cultural signposts affect and reflect that reality; there was a time when the "mean" for beauty was a woman built like Jane Russell and later it was Twiggy and then Playboy Bunnies and then Victoria's Secret models.  And if you didn't hew to that mean, you perhaps kept your mouth shut because you succumbed to peer pressure.  In other words, there likely have always been men who thought BBW was  an ideal but they have more of a voice today than before; it doesn't mean they're being pressured into giving BBWs a high score on looks. Perhaps the explanation isn't some evil -ism as much as it's that we all feel a little freer to let our freak flags fly.

Having said all that, I recall that, under a different handle in the old days--Phunhog if anyone remembers that far back--I think I got to 100 reviews before I gave out my first 10/10.  And since, I've given a number of 10s--whether for looks or performance.  Is that because I suddenly surrendered to pressure from providers or Big Brother?  No.  The simple reality I've observed is that there are way more seriously hot women here than there were BITOD.  This is a trend we can observe in porn as well.  Let's be frank--once upon a time both industries were littered with women who really weren't attractive.  But more and more women were willing to enter each field, which by definition meant that the chance of finding an attractive woman, even a beautiful one, increased as well.  It's like pretty girls coming to Hollywood to find their big break.  The larger that number gets, the higher chance that some of those women will be very attractive to a great many men.  WRT performance, when I first moved to LA, finding two women who would go down on each other was totally hit or miss.  Many faked it (you read that right) and many did it with obvious reluctance and even disdain.  Over the last few years, I've seen far, FAR more pretty girls eat pussy with joyful abandon, fuck each other with strap-ons and even engage in water sports together than I did in the late 90s and early aughts.  I just think the ladies upped their game--not that I lowered the bar.

As lopaw says, the trick might be in not taking the scoring too seriously and instead looking at them as but one indicator (and in the case of a lady with multiple reviews) an indication as to whether the lady is hewing to some sort of general societal mean of beauty), and not as a guarantee that the woman we meet will meet YOUR ideal of beauty.  I think that's just part of P4P and, frankly, IRL as well; my best friend's idea of a hot chick is not mine and vice versa.  

So I'm OK with this aspect of life and I try not to dwell on it.  Whether that works for you is up to you.  But I'd say that raging against it is like fighting the tide. At least that's my perspective based on a couple of decades here.

Safe and happy playing everyone!

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If everyone cramps the entire range in like three scores - 8,9 and 10, it becomes hard to differentiate and tell when a true gem comes along.

 
The more 10s you give, the more the 10 is devalued and more meaningless it becomes.

 
If I see a reviewer with ten reviews and all ten have 9s in the scores, 98% of the time I stop taking the reviewer's scores seriously.

but I consider the "Once in a LIfetime" description to be a figure of speech.  If you take it literally that you can only give ONE in your entire review career, then you are foreclosed from giving a 10 at all because you would not want be handcuffed if the next girl you see was more deserving than the one you actually gave it to.  

 
The standard I use for a ten, either for looks or service (subject to TER's point system on service), is that I considered her to be in the top 10% of all of the providers I have seen.  My actual number of 10's is more like 5%, but I use 10% to qualify for a 10.  It still makes it an elite score, but does not lead to the conumdrum you get if you give a 10 and then subsequent girls turn out to be better than the "one in a lifetime" that you took literally.  

The way I look at it is that tomorrow is another "life" where new experiences can trump previous ones of the same type.  It can also go the other way, but it just means that until you're in your deathbed, you never know.  
We've all seen obviously HOTT providers that someone scores a 5 or 6 in Appearance.  I would understand a low score for Performance- attributable to the YMMV factor, but Appearance is more objective than that.  For this reason, I always throw out 20% of the high and low scores and then average the rest.  If she has fewer than 10 reviews, then I do a weighted average comparing the reviewer's past scores for a particular provider with the average.  Then I also use a scaling factor depending on the provider's agency or site.
Bottom line is that the review scoring system is a good starting point, but you have to do some data analytics to make it suit your tastes.