I'll admit I have trouble with this one.  I tend to want to write words that basically skirt around the issue but still let the ideas coming shining through in between the lines.  So my reviews get shot down due to "not enough explicit details" even though I feel they tell all.

What's the difference between saying "when her hair falls around your covered member and you feel her lips" and "CBJ"?

Whats's the difference between saying that "she wanted me to push her buttons in every way possible" and "doggie, mish, and cowgirl"?

In my last unapproved review, I changed almost nothing, but added the word "Russian" and the review was approved and added to the database INSTANTLY!!!  This makes me think that they have some kind of computer program that is just scanning for certain words.

I look at some reviews that are somehow approved with almost no content and wonder why mine get shot down.

So who knows how it really works?

Back in the begining of my ventures into this world I did what many do and fell for a wonderful provider.  She had class and I was willing and wanting to do anything for her.  

I wrote my review.  I was way to enthusiastic and flowery in my rantings and ravings about her.  I gushed. I tried to make her sound as wonderful to others as I had found her to be.  One thing I wanted to convey was her classiness.  So I stayed away from saying things too harshly.  Explicitness was taudry and I didn't feel that way and didn't want others to think of her that way.

My reviews were turned down for the lack of explicit details.  So I modified.  Again turned down.  Again I modified.  Finally they were accepted.  And I felt bad.  I appologized to her.  She felt bad.  She didn't mind providing the services to me and she told me that others should not expect that they will be treated the same.  Everyone is different.  I think that I made her feel cheap.

The reviews were pulled at my request many months ago.  We spoke just this morning. She misses the life of an escort since she is now retired. I'm glad she is still a friend.

I'm still in the "hobby" and using the board but pretty much for my benefit only.  I have reviewed about 5% of the women I have seen in the last 2 years because I am not, and will not be, explicit enough.

But, then, I am almost banned due to offering my opinions.

DrX

I was wondering about the rankings requirement in regards to specific acts. What if I get exactly what I want and felt I had the time of my life, but because we did some things safely I'm not allowed to go past 7?  I haven't figured that one out!

The whole point of a review is give explicit details, why would someone want to read a review that beats around the bush? you can get that from the providers website......lets post stuff that is clear and meaningful.

The only thing I would say is that I like reviews that are to the point. This board is for information exchange to enable us to determine which ladies we might wish to spend time with.

Since I am focussed more on the sexual acts than the company I want that information - does lady Y do X, will I get ABC? Therefore I'd rather read "she swallowed" than a Mills and Boon-type description of "golden nectar being drunk from my overflowing cup". Just more obvious that way.

Thats just my preference and I know there are many that disagree with me.

is just how much explicit detail has to be in a review for it to be approved.  I see a wide variance.  Is this a judgement call by humans or is there software involved?  In my expample, the approval was so immediate after I added the word "Russian" that I would have a hard time believing that no software is involved.  Could you write a review that was basically empty, with no words, just the three letters "CBJ"?

You just want the specific sex acts, more power to you.  Me, I want to know more about the woman, and about the qualities of the experience beyond the simple inclusion or exclusion of particular acronyms.

Nonetheless, it would be helpful to me if I knew exactly what words or acronyms were required for a review to be approved.  Then I could plan my review writing process accordingly.  It's kind of silly, IMHO, for the review writing process to be a cat and mouse, trial and error procedure, where the supposed "rules" are applied in a haphazard and inconsistent manner from poster to poster.

I don't like to kiss and tell, but I feel obligated to the community.  I'm new to this hobby and was having a shitty time of it until I found this discussion board.  I spent my first week here reading the newbie board and picking out some favorites from the reviews.  Now I'm reaping the benefits of those who gave explicit details in the past; however, it's always nice to be able to read a coherent review rather than one run-on ALL CAPS sentence.  I try to play to both audiences with my reviews.  Fulfill the requirements of the site as needed, but more importantly, give an acurate impression of my feelings about our time together.  There are those of us who look for more than a specific act, and there are those of us who are looking for someone who can really ****(insert your favorite act here).  Most of us are somewhere in the middle.  I want more than a living sex doll, but I would be greatly disappointed to find out a provider didn't speak French.  I'm always in desperate need of a BJ, but I want more than that.  I want to connect on as many levels as possible in the short time we have together, and it makes me a little more comfortable to have an inkling of who I'm going to meet.  IMHO one or two well written glowing reviews far outweigh several short incoherent rants, but in the end we need the explicit details even if you don't want to give up the intimate ones.  I'm pretty sure there are actual moderators approving the reviews.  I've seen mine posted after a couple of minutes ranging up to a couple of days.  You probably just caught the mod as he was reading reviews anyway.

As a provider I understand why some ladies cringe to see these things laid out so bluntly but...

Well from the example above I would expect a golden shower not a blowjob with slurpy swallows!  

If a lady has an issue or if YOU aren't sure it is a consistantly provided service always fine to use the old YMMV (Your mileage may vary) Lets guys know there is precedent but uncertain if it is a constant.  Later reviews will back up any consistancies (Hopefully)

Rebecca

I suppose by "clear and meaningful" you mean exaggerated reviews in order to qualify?  I know of a few posters who have told me they have posted reviews just to help out provider buddies.  One in particular never even had a session with some of the ladies concerned.

I totally disagree with you, it's easy to convey details of an appointment without putting a providers business in jeopardy as well as leaving her with some dignity (much is I believe is stripped in a review).

Cheers!

Fiona.

Take a look at this review -- nothing very explicit at all --> http://theeroticreview.com/reviews/ShowReview.asp?Review=76058&user=51979

maybe someday whoever is in charge of this business will set some definite, fair, and reliable rules.  I'd like to contribute more to the board, but don't like to waste my time getting yanked around in the approval process.  Especially when I'm paying these guys my good money to be a member.

Perhaps the moderators are more lenient if there are more reviews of a particular lady?  So if you're one of the first 3 to submit regarding a particular provider you better bring the goods or it won't get posted but if you're number 10 the requirements dissipate because by now you're either confirming or contradicting what has already been posted.

This is pretty simple guys.  Read the review, ask yourself does what I wrote explain "what happened?"  If not, there is a real good chance it will not be approved.

Many times people confuse length with detail.  They will write a stirring essay on what she likes, does not like, the smell of her hair, the color of her couch, etc.  After reading it, I am left with the question, "did you guys have sex?"

If it is not clear, then we will turn down the review. Now on occasion, we do make mistakes.  Sometime I see reviews approved that should never have made it because it did not answer "what happened."  Sometime they are turned down when they really should have been approved.  I wish there was a computer program that could evaluate reviews, but until then, we will have to deal with the HUMAN element.

-- Staff

How about this test review to expose the TER robot conspiracy:

Blah blah blah DFK yaddah yaddah BBBJTC whatever something something GREECE nothing nothing RUSSIAN

that's a decent response, and thanks for it.  I've got no bone with an occasional mistake, we all make them.

It's a real double edged sword these reviews. They're a way to get a hopefully honest opinion of a Provider before peeling off the green. Then again they're the ultimate "Kiss & Tell" where very real feelings can be REALLY hurt.
 I too thought for a while that multiple acronyms were the only way to get a review approved. TER proved that wrong with my last review.
 I guess it's like being back in English class and sweating over the teachers grade for your efforts.
   Hobby-On

does in some degree undermine the review process altogether.  

I have had complaints from clientele that have tried to post reviews and were rejected for not being explicit enough.  One had his brother write the review after having his rejected twice, but after that aggrevation swore that he would never write another one because of that aggrevation.

I am not sure what the criteria is myself and am confused on it.  I had one client tell me that in order to have a good review posted that he would have to have me swinging on a chandelier, so opts not to write any.  A pain in the you know what.  The feedback I get from clientele tell me that many reviews are lost because of the confusion on criteria and what exactly is expected.  It isn't suppose to be rocket science and quite honestly I believe that there are some gents that aren't going to go through the process if it becomes to difficult.  It just isn't that great of an importance to him and understandably so.

Also, "Did you have sex?" is not the only important factor in an encounter.  The mechanics having importance, the environment also has importance.  If incall, was the place clean? There are several horror stories I have heard in which gents have visited with a lady whose place was so filthy that it actually made them physically sick.  Some ladies have pets, what if one has an allergy to pets?  It could make a difference as to whether a gent will visit.  What was the setting/ambiance?  There are those that are looking for more than just the mechanics of an encounter, they are looking for other aspects that will account for a fulfilling experience, that will help other gents reading the reviews as to whether or not the lady will be a good match.  What a lady likes or doesn't like may also help in making a good match as long as it isn't redundant.  Especially if a gent is planning an evening engagement that may include for example dancing...what if the lady doesn't like to dance?

Gents tastes and what they are looking for vary a great deal and although the mechanics are an important aspect, I also believe other variables help in the process.  Believe it or not I do have clientele in which the mechanics are not important to them at all.

Given the amount of threads that question the criteria, wouldn't it be more prudent to simplify the process or at least spell it out in a manner that gents can understand?  I do believe many reviews are lost because of them being rejected and feel that maybe it is because of the criteria for explicitness.  

Lauren

Like I said, I don't have a problem with honest mistakes.  One other qquestion:  you say you wonder if "did you guys have sex?".  Isn't that an item a reviewer has to fill out in the review form?

It's not that we can't understand the criteria. It's actually spelled out pretty well. At least for myself, I can't speak for BH or the others - but I was just debating if whether those criteria really ALL are necessary.  And we seemed to be debating that human element that sees some very weak reviews get through while we had to rewrite ours to get them through.  So the message to staff was "hey guys how about relaxing some of the requirements - perhaps some of us can have a 10 experience without bb anal!  and while you're at it how about more consistency from the review moderators??"   So Lauren I think we're just trying to improve the criteria/process a tiny bit.  If we're not moving forward we're just standing still!

and scampr's thread up above have opened my eyes quite a bit about how the review process works here.  It does appear to have a few quirks that would be nice to have fixed, but I certainly wouldn't have any idea how hard it would be for you guys to fix them.

It seems to me that a good bit of information that you gather on the review submission form is not imparted to the individual reviews, and doing so could clear up a lot of the problems.  For instance, the pricing information that is gathered would be nice to have with each individual review.  And as well the sex questions.  The review form straight out asks you what sex services were provided, but it isn't documented with the review.  Doing so would eliminate a lot of the objections people have to the explicit details.  And as well eliminate the confusion about the providers profile saying she does some services (like bbbj) but the guys getting only cbj.

It would also be handy to either state the maximum review length or allow a one or two time edit of the text.  There were plenty of explicit details in my unapproved review of Jade, you just didn't get to see them, lolol  But since it wasn't approved maybe someday I'll have time to go back and trim it down.  I guess I'm a frustrated would-be novelist, lol

Describing a great time?  Why does SEX HAVE to be a part of a review? We are paid for time and companionship, this isn't a secret.  I too take great issue with the review system.

xoxo
Brooke

I think most true ladies appreciate a "modest" review..i.e. you get the gist that $$$$ is not wasted yet you don't know more than you need to in this climate.