Gents
112 providers have been reviewed this month alone (excluding people who have only had one review). And while the almost always shilled women are wonderful, there are only about a dozen of them.  
I have experienced our broader talents, so evidently have you since you are reviewing.  
Variety is the spice of life.  Share

Shills (generally) are ridiculously lame.

At least you two have been good enough to shill for your chosen favorites, so you have LOTS of room to gripe.....your contributions and positivity are greatly appreciated......

Crap... my nose has gotten pretty deep... has any of the brown lodged in-between my teeth too ?


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but I actually will have a shill for a name you don't see too often on here next time around.  I hope to see one from you too.

Is for the guys who complain about them to start contributing all the new ladies they see.  
 According to TER "A Shill Thread is a thread that is started with a post that is praise, thanks, or a recommendation for a certain provider for reasons of self-interest, personal benefit, or out of friendship or loyalty" it's not all about showcasing new talents although that can be a benefit.  
Shill on boys, with that many new reviews the shill thread should be a whole lot longer than it is.

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Who doesn't love a deal?

I always look at their links .... For pics

I have no interest in the sport of shilling on Fridays.

The majority of shills end with an "eom" tag. Thus, there is nothing to actually read.  

So you don't shill. And it appears you don't review.
What kind of site would it be if everyone followed your example?
I just hope we would still be free to criticize

.........to bring some variety to the shills by introducing the "First Friday" shill, which was intended to highlight new providers on the first Friday of each month.  It had some limited success, but I was surprised at the number of negative comments I received, and so dropped the idea after a few months.  

You are free to do anything you want to do in the hobby.

I also recall early on when Shill Friday began there was much more participation & fresh skin to crawl into. It was a nice mix of the new & established & I found myself actually waiting with anticipation through the week for Friday to Cum.  

yeah it was a good thought.  New talent is just so rare around here that to have a specific thread just for newer providers as you proposed would be a vast wasteland.   A shill thread is just fine with the ones that are in there all the time and hopefully some random new talent.  

The bottom line is that each TER member is free to post shills if they follow the rules;
You want to shill for a new girl, just do it.
You want to shill for a regular you like, then do that.
You don't like shills and/or think they are lame, DON'T READ THEM.

The vast majority of hobbyists do not post reviews. I believe I read a figure that perhaps only 10 percent of a provider's unique (i.e., non-repeat clients) encounters are documented via reviews. Thus, I guess you can feel special that you are one of the ten percenters holding The Erotic Review sturdy for all users.

But you check every Friday, don't you?

I thought that was a great idea too.  
 

..but I just spent the weekend with one of the hottest women I know, so yeah, I'm feeling REAL good.  How about some attribution for the numbers you "read"?  Gee, that would be nice, cause I was talking about about TER members not all mongers on the planet and the TER number is higher, in fact TER will share it with you if you ask nicely.  Of course you never let the facts get in the way of a pejorative, opinionated post.   Hey, great job on the 2009 thing.  Let me see if I got it;  5 years ago you got a gal to change her pictures.  Wow, what a great moment in hobby history.  All along I have thought you were an asshat and it turns out you are my hobby hero.  
Have a nice night.                                                                  

Hold on just a minute.

And a useful reminder that what is well known to those of us who have been around for a while isn't necessarily so for the newcomers who are regularly arriving.

Thanks mnjohnny

You seem to have things figured out here already. Good luck and have fun.

Wasn't that 2009 (no, I guess it was 2012) when you were planning to sink the entire Minnesota hobby ship on one of the local lakes?

You make an interesting observation about the emotional connection sought by hobbyists.

Teddy,  wrong again.  I must have a bearing on your hobby life since you see the need to justify yourself, unless your response here means that your TER account has been hacked, LMAO.   Yeah,  that was me who tried to organize a  boat cruise M&G for the MN hobby.  Somebody snitched and so it was just smaller and private, you weren't invited and we had fun.

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....The only transparency we need is that the reviews are not faked (that's TERs job to monitor) and that guys have seen the provider he shills for.  Beyond that we all have agendas here, even the shill posting rules reflect that.  I have had many arrangements such as the one you describe and having a vested interest in seeing a provider succeed is a quality many of us share for self serving reasons including the fact that we want her to stick around because we enjoy seeing her...duh.  But not Ted, he is some kind of hobby "purist".  My hero.  LMAO

It's a nice round number that sounds good when you throw it out, but if you look at cases, it just doesn't hold up.  

Just for fun, ok!!?  My first review was July 2011.  And I'm at 200 now as of a few weeks ago.  

gone unnoticed.

July 1, 2011 to April 1, 2014 is just about 1005 days. Less 154 days of OFF time leaves 901 days. If we accept the turboted 10% review frequency rule, that means you have seen 2000 clients since your first review, or 2.2 (rounded down) new, non-repeating clients each and every day you were available to work. Whew!

Don't you know you aren't supposed to do stuff like that?

In your case this hobbyist made a sustained effort to persuade you to see this provider.  That doesn't resemble what goes on with the Friday shill thread at all.

Turns out 154 from 1005 leaves 851, not 901. Who knew? So you'd have had to see 2.35 new clients every day to hit 2000.  

Wait!! Stop the Presses! - Recalculation Needed!

I actually started in this playing field MID-APRIL 2011.  
First person to WRITE about it was in July.
To keep the statistics accurate the Numbers MUST be re-calculated.    
The statisticians here Thank You in advance.

Ides of April to the end of June adds 76 days = 927 total working days. So to reach 2000 clients you'd have needed 2.15 new ones per day.  

Damn Portia, with numbers like that and not taking any days off, you would have had to charge some clients an OT rate per the labor laws.  You may want to see if you can back charge those that were on Over Time.

She got 1800 reviews in the past couple of days?!