They do a great service to the rest of us by either finding good new talent or exposing those who are not worth the time or money.

Reviews of first timers take TER much longer to vet in order to be sure they are legit.

Not a bad idea at all. You make a good point that at some time every lady here had no reviews and someone had to give them their first. If NOBODY did first reviews, eventually we would run out of reviewed providers. I never TOFTT yet (the one time I tried was a NCNS).  

But I think it merits at least a 6 month trial period to see how it goes, and then take it from there

With more than 1.3 MILLION reviews I don't think that's going to be a problem.
That said, I agree with you and fisher his idea is worth a try.

Oh, yeah. 1.35 million, it's a helluva lot of reviews. But how often have you run a search and come up with a bunch of providers whose last review is two or more years old? Is she still active? Some have 200 reviews. I bet the number of reviewed, active providers here is less than most of us would guess.  

but as has been suggested MANY times before, getting rid of those damn "top" lists would go a long ways towards reducing review manipulation and outright fraud.

So if there was no incentive there would be much fewer reviews written, which would hurt the value of the site to members and thus to TER itself.

TER is not going to do anything that will result in LESS reviews being written. TER is a multi million dollar business with ONE major asset that drives revenue, a review database of over 1.3 MILLION reviews, do you really think they are going to do anything keep that number from growing as much as possible?

How many of them are active is tough to guess, but when I excluded bad phone numbers and bad websites the number fell to 82,264.

Wow. Interesting bit of research. I'm wondering how low that would fall if you also could exclude ROB's, women with pimps, and women with reviews that would make most of us never want to call them.

Here is a rather interesting stat, I did a search for US, All Cities, excluding all bad web sites and bad phone numbers, with a minimum avg score of 7 and only came up with 13,112 providers, raise that average score to 8 and you get only 5,847   Providers and if you discount women who haven't have a review in over five years that number falls to about 5,500 even lower if you exclude women without a review in over two years at fewer than 4,700.  

Mr. Fisher's original point is looking better and better!

Goldie always think about Chaka Khan when asking your question. It is the same question we have of you. " What cha gonna do for me?"

I was approached very aggressively in this manner and made the mistake of seeing this person. I didn't know how to handle the situation, because I felt like if I provided the session for free, then that would taint the authenticity of the review, but I didn't want to get him on my bad side either, so at the end of the session, when he asked how much, I told him my rate, but said I knew he was also trying to help me, so whatever he thought was fair. He paid the rate, but I guess he wasn't expecting that answer (which I thought was pretty reasonable) because I've had issues with him ever since. I've definitely tightened up my screening process since then. Geez.