As a newbie browsing reviews I have noticed providers with dozens of them over the years, all high marks, all sounding as if they were written by the same person, with the flair usually found in the "stories" section of porno sites. Would it be naive to imagine that so many different guys could be motivated to emit such hackneyed prose? Or am I cynical to suspect that there is some provider trickery at work here?

I asked myself the same questions when I started...More experienced guys will quickly know the validity of those reviews however, If a provider is caught writing her own reviews or having someone writing those for her, she will be suspended forever.. TER is proactive finding those, it is a really bad business practice and counterproductive to the rest of us who really really work hard for our fair scores.

the mark. An experienced hobbyist can spot "red flag" reviews pretty quickly. There are tons of threads about fake reviews. OTOH, there are also many providers with pages of glowing reviews that are quite legit; yes, we guys can be motivated to ramble in detail about an amazing encounter! Of course, everyone is different.. some reviewers are brief and others write like "Penthouse Letters".

Guys write them to get the free VIP days.  Girls write them to build up their reputation.  If you do your research carefully, and stick to well-reviewed providers, you will be fine.

So then how is this site and any review system of any use?!

Thanks for the reply - but if experienced hobbyists can spot these fakes even quicker than noobs like me, and if TER is proactive at weeding them out, then why are there tons of them?

Well with over 1 million reviews written on TER, there are plenty that are real. You need to learn what's reL and what's fake. It takes time.  Always check the reviewers history of reviews. And remember if it sounds tgtbt it usually is.

So many well copy much of what has been written.  That will account for a lot of reviews written the same.  Then there are the fake reviews, by the provider or agency.  In the long run, commonn statements without other indications have no definitve indications if the review is fake or real, just indicate a lack of originality.  Originality, on the other hand, makes for great reading but still does not prove if real or fake.  Of course when it comes to sex, originality really is fantastic.

work hard at being a top provider.  It was a pleasure seeing her that I look forward to repeating.

No idea how many reviewers there are, but with over a million reviews, and at this moment, over 28,000 members online, there is lots of good info out there, along with the fakes.  You just have to learn how to weed it out.