totally agree..i have given out a lot of 10/10's..i purposely schedule them to see if they are worthy of the score..guess what..they are..our fellow hobbyists will always question providers who get 10/10's or hobbyists who give them..a lot of hobbyists fear giving out 10/10's for fear they will lose their he-man status and be called a white knight or be accused of being in collusion with said provider..i rate the women i see fairly and honestly and hope other ter members read the review i write to determine if they want to see her..that to me should be the only reason to write one..not to become a source of hypocritical bullshit..
From the LV board, I have to agree with the OP, I operate on the exactly the same principles, over the last couple of years I've narrowed it down to a few regulars plus the occasional Eastern European or Russian girl that passes thru.
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion_boards/viewmsg.asp?MessageID=136895&boardID=3&page=1#136895
I think folks forget TER has been known to lower scores as well. It's happened to me a few times. Gents told me that they gave me a 10 in performance & the reviews included anal, bbbjcim, yadda, yadda. These gents have become regular playmates so I have no reason to question their honesty. As far as that goes, what lady in her right mind bitches about a 7/9 (my average) rating anyway? NOT ME! Lol!
I think the bottom line is (as been pointed out in previous threads) IGNORE the ratings & get VIP & focus on the details. If the specifics in the reviews meet your criteria, go for it & leave a happy, happy boy!
Affectionately
Leann
totally agree..i have given out a lot of 10/10's..i purposely schedule them to see if they are worthy of the score..guess what..they are..our fellow hobbyists will always question providers who get 10/10's or hobbyists who give them..a lot of hobbyists fear giving out 10/10's for fear they will lose their he-man status and be called a white knight or be accused of being in collusion with said provider..i rate the women i see fairly and honestly and hope other ter members read the review i write to determine if they want to see her..that to me should be the only reason to write one..not to become a source of hypocritical bullshit..
... Ol' Sticks back when Dennis mueller took over a lead singer of the eagles. Epochal night.
First let me say that the numerical rating system is seriously flawed to begin with. Since the score of 7 is "attractive" you really have only four numbers you can use. Since I would never book an appointment with a lady I didn't find at least attractive, the rest of the numbers aren't too useful. You can tell what TER thinks of us when you see that the score of 4 is "OK if you are drunk" and there are three scores lower than THAT!
Next, the dumbest thing of all is arguing about the scores. They are subjective. I noticed one reviewer that gave a 10-10 sixteen out of twenty times. Others give a perfect score one in one hundred times. It doesn't matter. A smart review reader soon finds guys whose tastes match their own and the rest is easy. If their tastes don't match mine, it doesn't matter what the score is.
And adjusting scores is even dumber than arguing about them. I was recently notified that TER had lowered a score I gave to a lady that retired two years ago. They said someone had "complained." I don't get the point of that.
And last of all there is the constant din over "rating inflation." The general gist of this complaint is that scores should not creep up. But in fact, if the review system works, the scores should creep up. The better we get at reading and writing reviews, the fewer mistakes we ought to make! Why pay for VIP if we are not going have better experiences to show for it?
There that my take on the numbers.
Well said. Just looking at numbers gives you less than half of the story. Read the reviews. Not skim, not scan, read.
...and the lady exceeds your expectations, a 10/10 is not very far fetched. It isn't as though I am scouring the web looking for a bargain. Hunting for quality leads to mind blowing experiences!
If it were up to me, which it isn't, I'd drop the whole rating thing on appearance; and stick with "are the pictures real and accurate, or not."
If a woman posts real, accurate photos of herself there really is no need to put a number on her appearance since we can all look and make our own decision want to meet her.
If she chooses not to publish photos a simple comment can be made in the narrative portion of the review.
For appearance scores, he says he is making his comparisons only to other escorts. I don't see any reason to do that; why not include all women in that comparison? I don't think just of other escorts when I am looking at how attractive an escort is and in all honesty I doubt he is either even though that is what he does when he actually writes reviews. And I have seen many people, both hobbyists and escorts, compare someone's looks to some celebrity. But I will say that I don't necessarily think all models are 9's or betters and I have seen a number of providers that I thought were more attractive than most models. I think assigning descriptions to the numerical scores was a mistake.
As far as performance scores go, I expect to leave satisfied so I'm not going to give out an exceptional score for that. Going beyond that, blowing me away, leave me smiling (at least on the inside) for the rest of the day or longer then I give out higher scores.
"I think assigning descriptions to the numerical scores was a mistake." - A lot of people have been screaming that in TER's ear for many years, myself included, they're not trying to hear that.
I can't conceive of scoring a 10 with a statement like "Once in a lifetime" attached to it. Climbing the Himalayas is a once in a lifetime expereince, or seeing a Spider Monkey assfuck an Aardvark - a blow job, is not.
So everytime I see a 10 I think of Steve Carell in "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and ponder what a severe lack of pussy can do to a man's perception. I mean, if you spent a week trapped in a cave with no food or water, the next thing you eat or drink is going to seem like the best damn thing you've ever shoved in your face, even if it's a cockroach sandwich with a glass of goat piss. If you've been 5-star dining all week, not so much...
Then there is the obvious conflict of handing them out every single rip when the key word in the statement is ONCE in a lifetime. Taken literally, that makes it an impossibility to score that way twice when every encounter recites the same sexual acts as the previous. So obviously, many choose to ignore the verbage and just go with the number.
That's their prerogative, but it makes the consistancy of reviews erratic and providers often seeming enigmatic; one group using the same number scale from highschool that obligatorily had to be attached to anything that wore a skirt, and others placing more value in the description of the score. It IS subjective to begin with, but this only lends to widening that disparity, which leads to this topic a countless number of times.
I can agree with the OP in the linked thread to the extent that if you are doing your homework rather than taking shots in the dark, and sticking with the 'safe' choices you're likely to consitantly be grading on the high end of the scale, that IS a duh.
But let's forget the hot button issue of 10's and look at the other end of the scale. Give a girl a 7 or better and everything is honky dory in Fuckville. But on the other end of the scale, then EVERYBODY starts reading the verbage...HOMELY...UGLY...OK IF YOU ARE DRUNK... that's when it gets harder for guys to tell the truth. Those words are insults. Shit, those are fighting words. You meet a nice gal...who looks like a Wilderbeast who's skipped her last 10 doses of Zoloft... whose gonna come on here and tell everyone "you were really scared" when you saw her?
Notice you will almost NEVER see an appearance score that low unless she was a rip off or did something else to piss the guy off. I saw a girl not long ago who consistantly scored 7's for appearance, she had a spectacular set of skills and a great attitude but...no conventional standards would make her "attractive" by any stretch of the imagination and I heard from another guy who reviewed her that admitted, he just couldn't go lower because of the exact reasons I stated above.
Dear admin; please get rid of the stupid fucking lingo and just stick with the numbers. We are primal creatures when it comes to the opposite sex, let it be simple.
Hail Morris.
This is the answer. This is the post that puts it together. Subjective. That's the magic word.
And the whole thread is pretty civil, too. Hm.
I normally don't care to do reviews as I am usally a very private person and I believe what happens between the lady and myself is our business. But after seeing several dozen providers over the last 7 years, most who were excellent, I have given out my one and only 10/ 10 and believe me I would have given her a 100/100 if I could. She is so unbelievable I had to return later that week just to see if it was real and it was. She is everything I was looking for in this hobby....and more!
I am so very happy to have found her and that is all that matters to me.