I was just wondering what the reasons might be for reviews that have been removed?

This isn't the first time that I went back through my own reviews, looking for a particular one for various reasons, only to find that is no longer there.   The one I searched for today had previously been one of my very first reviews and I remembered some of the specific things that had been written; it's no longer showing.  I perused many from that time period, but nope... that one is just gone.

Any ideas why reviews get pulled?

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my initial review of her was automatically deleted. No, I had not thoroughly read the guidelines.

If a reviewer posted a second review, HE (or she) still has the original under their list of "My TER" > "Reviews."  You can PM or otherwise ask for a private copy of the original

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Your buddy from NM is an example. A former GD board mod from Vegas is another example.

Since TER "owns" all the reviews, it is up to them whether they remove them or not, and it is probably on a case by case basis.

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If so, the earlier review would be replaced as dani mentioned.
Are any of his other reviews still up? Some reviewers have had all their reviews removed due to outing, legal issues, or other personal reasons. TER owns all the reviews and they don't easily remove them. The reviewer can not remove his own review. He has to ask, and there has to be a valid reason, and then it's up to TER to remove them or not. There are some handles who are still active on TER but have had their reviews removed. Some others have had all traces of themselves deleted, (posts, and reviews), some have changed handles and have old handle's reviews deleted, and others have changed handles and have their old reviews and posts moved over to their new handle. Others have been banned from TER yet all their old posts and reviews remain. It's at TER's discretion.

Their default setting is to keep as many reviews up as possible.

I am not saying that they knowingly keep fake reviews up, just that the default setting here is to their own interests which is to grow the database.

They need a really good reason to take a review down, and banning a member is certainly not one of them.

He was not banned in the sense that his name couldn't be mentioned.

In any case, I tried to find a review that I know existed for a certain former hobbyist member who was banned, and it was gone, as was any link to his reviews, so that's why I surmised that being banned could possibly lead to a review being taken down

his handle, (I know this because I have had some of my posts pulled for mentioning it) yet all his old posts and reviews have always remained. Same was true for LP and many others.  

On the other hand, there have been members banned where all traces (old posts and reviews) are gone. Like I said it is a case by case bssis. It is not a general rule that banned members have their reviews removed.  

In this post you said being banned could "possibly" lead to a review being taken down. I won't argue that because your use of "possibly" makes your statement correct. -- Modified on 11/1/2015 6:33:35 PM

...may not be OK today.  It could have been spotted by someone looking through your reviews and reported to TER.  Or maybe it was something too specific that slipped by the staff member who initially approved the review.

Awhile back, I'd noticed one early review missing and then another, and then I noticed this third review missing today.  

I'd guessed that the first one was removed when that user was blocked/banned from TER, which he'd told me he was.  

After going through my reviews again, I realize that the 2nd one I'd thought missing was due what you and others suggested: he wrote a second review of me later on.  OK, great, mystery solved; and I'm happy about it because the second was much better than the first lol.  

Now the review I most recently spotted missing?   I can only guess what happened but I'm thinking there was some of drama lol.  
He and I met just once.  
When his review was first posted,  I'd looked at his other reviews and every lady he'd previously reviewed was very different from myself; a recent/current thread in GD reminded me of this incident, which prompted me to go look for that review and see if the guy is still active on TER.  I have no idea what his handle was, though, or I'd search for him that way.

No biggie, just my usual curiosity getting the better of me!  

 
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I'm guessing I'll have to wait til I see her again, then can combine all the priors into one cumulative current review.

If you see her once and write a review, you can't re-review but you can ask TER to correct or fix a review if it's something of significance: the common missing "not" ("She does swallow." Oops, I meant to write "She does NOT swallow."); a personal piece of info that shouldn't be there (someone wrote that "she's a student majoring in xxx (name of major) at xxx (named the college!) which is one block over from the incall (it was!)."  That had to deleted.

If you do see her again you write a new review and include as much or as little or your prior review subject to the # of characters limit. Just keep in mind that the original disappears. If you merely refer to it, others cannot.  

You can quote yourself, "Previously, I wrote "She was more scared than a lamb at a wolf convention" but now, a year later, she was the wolf and I was her prey. First, she ..."  

... or to point out consistently good experiences. "This review is a composite of several visits with xxx. ..."

Ooops ... I just at read your review of ME: "My second visit to M was even more awesome than first, if that's possible. See my December 2014 review for more comprehensive details."  The 2nd review REPLACES you Dec 14 review.  It's still in your list of "My Reviews" but no one else can see it but you. If you want to some of your gems to be preserved, you have to copy it over into the new review.  

I don't think you go back and edit your recent review (is the "edit" button still available?) but you can request changes is there some substantive error.


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