Your idea would further exacerbate the problem.
Some guys already make the review all about them. This would just encourage the worst of them to make their already grandiose reviews even more unbelievable and useless. An "entertaining" review is not the same as a "useful" review. Your idea would encourage the former without doing anything help the latter.
BTW, I don't read the reviews for their entertainment value. I read them for the purpose this site was created, to make sure I am not going to get ripped off and to make sure the women I see are the "real thing" Encouraging reviews to be more "entertaining" IOW, "embellished" is at odds with the actual purpose of this site.
I know what you're saying but and perhaps my choice of word, "entertaining", was poor but we all have seen the many time repeated mocking of the "form review". Is that actually informative? We know the numbers are crude guidance at best.
So change "entertaining" to "high quality description of the events that isn't a a form letter". There are certainly a lot of posters who have the ability to turn a phrase but for the most part that's lacking in the reviews. I largely don't read the reviews at all other than to get a sense of what others are saying about some one I've seen. All my information that drive the choice comes from other sources. I don't think I'm that unique in that regard but....
Anyhow, it's hardly worth arguing further as given the uniform reactions TER would hardly waste time and effort on the experiment
Sorry bro, but Jake is right. Also, who said anything about weeding out fake reviews? I think everyone here knows that's not what you're trying to do. The issue is your idea, though creative, would significantly worsen the problem of fake reviews. Yes, it would cause a few people, like yourself, to put more effort into their reality based reviews, but many many people would just be pulling ludicrous stories out of their ass. And now you're talking about having providers confirm reviews? At first blush that sounds like a good idea because of the number of BS reviews, but the shit storm that would unleash -- wow! Huge nasty can of worms.
Also, what are you talking about entertainment value? It has never occurred to me to read reviews for entertainment. For entertainment, I call someone whose reviews I've read. For free entertainment, I open posts from CDL or Fancy. You don't think that winning a prize for writing the most "entertaining" review would create "any incentive to write fake or embellished reviews"?? I think you may need to go ponder that some more. Don't just think about what you would do, think about some of the other jokers here. Hell, I'd probably fall into that trap subconsciously once or twice.
A good idea in a perfect world, really, but it would suffer far too much abuse from both sides of the community, and be too unwieldy for TER to maintain.
Just my two percent of a buck.
