1) Her four reviewers have a total of 11 reviews, all from September - November, 2013.
(Interesting that all the providers have two names.)
2) All 11 reviews give 10's in performance and all give 9 or 10 in appearance.
3) Seven different providers have been reviewed by the four reviewers in question.
Only ONE provider has a lengthy record here at TER: Hillary Cavanaugh has 11 pages of reviews, starting in 2007. The first review for the other six was submitted in August.
4) The rate for Hillary and another provider (who has only one review) is 400/hour. The others range up to 800. Might the 10's have been submitted to "justify" the higher-than-average rates?
5) Most of the reviews are much longer than average; they read like PR pieces.
6) Reviews of RealMcCoy and potatoinmyanus both say "holy fucking shit". What are the odds of two guys both saying that in reviews of the same provider?
7) The only two providers reviewed by "potato" are also reviewed by RealMcCoy.
8) I would be willing to bet that there are few if any posts made on this TER discussion board or the other TER boards by any of the four reviewers. Perhaps someone with
available time will be willing to do searches.
About nine years ago there was a new gal in Palm Springs who had kept on getting reviews with 10's for performance. I read each new one and it became obvious they were written by females. It was obvious to me that they reviews were written by one or more females because of the words used. She reached 10 reviews, all with 10's for performance. I sent messages to TER at least two times; finally her profile was pulled.
TER tracks isp addresses in an attempt to prevent gals from posting their own phony reviews.
The situation under discussion is probably too complicated for TER to deal with