What does “a self policing community” mean?

The Erotic Review is not just a website. It is the largest online community of its kind in the world.  How large is TER? Here is some information you may not have known.

Alexa (a traffic rating site owned by Google) gives theeroticreview.com a Unites States traffic rank of 1134 meaning only 1,133 sites have more traffic from the U.S. than TER. Also according to Alexa, TER has a traffic rank of 8139 compared to every website in the world.  TER’s logs from yesterday show we had 288,785 visitors (not just hits; actual visitors). 240,774 of them typed our name in their browser or selected us as from their favorites menu. 47,948 were sent to us from 2,147 referring sites. Looks like we were having a slow day.

If we consider our almost one million registered members as the “population” of our community, we would rank as the 51st largest metropolitan area in the United States?  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropolitan_areas) This number does not include the millions of people who have just passed through our community without registering a username.  

There is no way to put this many people together and not have a few assholes in the bunch.  I wanted to ask, “Are you an asshole?” as part of the procedure when people created their usernames. I did not do it because I figured, being assholes, they would probably lie anyways.  I thought maybe I should just put it on the front disclaimer page something like, “We must insist that you need to be of a legal age to view pornographic material and not be an asshole.”  Unfortunately, no one reads that stuff anyways (think about it, did you?)

We had 288,785 visitors yesterday. I am almost positive one or two assholes slipped in. If you have a better way of “sniffing assholes” please email me (include pictures if possible).  Since it does not look like we can catch them before they sign up, I guess we need to deal with them here. This is why “TER is a self policing Community.”  

What does “a self policing community“mean?  At TER, it has few meanings:

1. “Be part of the solution, not the problem.” In this “self policing Community,” it is each and every member’s responsibility to watch their community. If you see something wrong with something on this site, don’t run around crying about it.  Help us fix it.  Click the problem report button. Write an email. Send a feedback. As a member of this community, if you are not willing to help solve the problems in the community, then you have no right to criticize them.

2. “What happens at Fight club stays at Fight club.” We realize how overworked and under budgeted city, state, and federal authorities are. Out of utmost respect for them, as law abiding citizens we will do everything we can, within the law, to avoid wasting their resources on issues that we can handle within the community.

3. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”  No community is perfect. There will never be a situation where EVERYONE is happy.  We need to make decisions based on the good of the entire community, not just the portion that screams the loudest.


Someone once said that “the only way to see the future is to help create it yourself”. Now each and every one of us has a finger on the steering wheel. Together WE decide the future of TER because WE  are TER.

-- Staff