there are flaws in the reviews. Here is the perspective from my experience. My first couple of reviews was unapproved because you have to follow the guidelines for reviews; its usually listed and explained before you make a review. For example, you cannot slander a providers (harshly) character, you have to be specifics in the Juicy Details part, or you have to give enough info in the regular details part. Sometimes, if you provide a website or a phone number, both have to match up. If you write a review, and if it is unapproved, then there is an explanation for why TER has done so. The remedy is usually easy to follow and the review should be approve afterwards.

If a review is not approved the reason can be found by checking the "your reviews" section of the account manager.  Sometimes a re-submitted review will make it through on a second try and sometimes the author edits the review to get it approved.  It's not rocket science.  This is a website that is run by human beings. No system is perfect.

Of course, then there is this dreaded (and rather vague) reason for denial: "From time to time we choose not to post reviews from users with limited history at TER. This is done with the interests of our community as a whole in mind. We thank you for your understanding." Understanding? I think not...

The deal is that they only have THREE terms to describe a submission and they should have four or five.

1. NEW - it's in the queue but no one has looked at it yet.

2. UNAPPROVED - someone has looked at it (no longer NEW) but it hasn't approved it yet. The correct tag should probably be "PENDING" or something like that but not in this system. You can still Edit and resubmit your review at this stage. Anyway, you (and other newbies) end up thinking your submission was completely shot down. Not so. Hang in there ...

3. APPROVED - approved, posted and your "Edit" button changes to "View".

4. UNAPPROVED and completely rejected for who knows what reason. Maybe "REJECTED" would be a better indicator for this level of unapproved, but they don't do that here. Regardless of unapproved or rejected, you can still Edit and resubmit.

So, there should be (1) NEW, (2) PENDING, (3) APPROVED, (4) UNAPPROVED (resubmit with minor revisions) and (5) REJECTED (beyond repair: banned provider, NCNS review for session that never took place, etc.) tags but all you get is three.

It's annoying but you'll get used to it (I hope).

that you've written a second review of the same provider.  TER does not allow multiple reviews of the same provider on the board, so your second one replaces the first one.  The first one then is listed in your own "My TER" as "Unapproved," but your second one is posted.  Same goes for any future reviews of the same provider, I assume.