It's been 6 months or so since the return of TER to the US, and still the boards remain relatively dead and sausage-festy.

Lately I’ve seen all kinds of reviews that were extremely short, eg one line for General, 3 lines for (Non) Juicy Details, with so little detail of any kind that they could have been written by a bot.

While some gals can handle that OK, some will do irreparable damage to themselves if given this outlet.

I agree that TER isn’t yet up to full steam. I think two big reasons are:
1. It took time for people to become aware that it was back

high-volume reviewer . . . .

As everyone knows, mostly all the providers that once religiously  used TER have moved over to twitter.  Twitter is their home now and TER (in many providers eyes) is now everything they are against. Being on TER is like having a scarlet letter, and unfortunately that is the consensus.  

I think the ball was starting to roll, and then we ran into the covid.  But if you look closely, there are signs of momentum gathering again.  A little over a month ago when TER asked for predictions of when the 350,000th provider ID would be issued, the average number of new provider ID's per day was around 17.  Today shows a doubling of that average number to a bit over 34 per day since then.  

Not a doctor but I don't think that will help.

First off, the proposed changes IMHO would NOT have saved TER, but what they would have accomplished would be to create a new TER, so watered down, and so slanted in favor of the providers as to make it completely worthless to most of us even if it did succeed in bringing more traffic to TER, which I seriously doubt it would have done.

BLUF: providers have moved on to other platforms and aren't coming back to a monger-centric formatted site.
   
1. Reduce rules for explicitness of reviews. -You're basically saying throw out the current requirement for a rating of 8-10 by not requiring details.
2. Make it easier to update profiles for accuracy, with current information. - I'm all for it. I've submitted numerous reports of girls being fat and TER won't change their body type.
3. Add an alias for reviews option (while keeping a board alias as well). -Doesn't this already exist?
4. Keep the longer timeframe for reviews in place. How does this attract providers back to the site?
9. Double free membership period for submitted reviews. see comment to #4.

When TER folded the day F/S passed, I thought it was over for me, and it would be hard to "prove" I was a reputable but to my shock, I started doing better. I met better clients, had a better time knowing I didn't have a dick review lingering over me, and developed more regulars and repeats. Reviews essentially have zero value  to women in this day and age, so why should we stay? Free advertising? Perhaps. I am still here, but I am def not here promoting myself or trying to pick up new clientele.  

Here is my take on the subject, When F/S came along and TER went dark there were two different predictions on what would happen. One school of thought was that the hookers would become desperate and rates would plummet. The other camp believed that without reviews guys wouldn't know who was reputable and women could just charge what they wanted.

I’m not sure attracting providers to the site is ever going to be extraordinarily successful again. It would be pretty hard to replicate what was working within RB over here in TER.

This is a place for men to get info on escorts to determine if they are worth the amount of donation for the service level.  You don't need any escorts interaction for that.  Does TER charge escorts advertising on here?  Im not sure the business model.  I just pay for VIP usually every year or so and get intel.  Prior to the crackdown it was good.  Its getting back slowly i hope.  I'm not sure what Twitter and all that has to do with TER.  

aren't even using the free advertising! What does that tell you (plural)?

I cut back to seeing very few new girls that I hadn't seen before because they had no reviews. Every date was a TOFTT situation.  I don't mind some of my dates being TOFTT, but not a very large percentage.  so I pretty much stuck to the girls I have known for a long time that I have seen before.  

and I'm very glad to be able to do so.   Without TER I wouldn't know them and wouldn't have bothered to try any other means to find new gals.

If providers keep rising their rates and not providing good quality service guys will get sick of spending their hard earned money and start to only see girls they know will give them what they are looking for and TER will be a popular place for providers to go again

1.  Sure.  Why not.  TER is basically already doing this and easily approving reviews.
2.  Cannot speak for the ladies, but I find it challenging to update a ladies profile.  I have about a 50/50 track record of my requests getting approved.
3.  Good idea.  TER used to do this back in the day.  It was abused which is why it stopped.
4.  Sure.  Why not 180 days seems reasonable.
5.  Sure.  Either that or allow like 5 responses to a review such as fake review or yes I met him, etc., so this does not get stupid.  
6.  Moderation can be annoying and disrupt the flow of a conversation.  Sure.
7.  Not sure that I understand this one or how it would work.  Probably a bad idea.
8.  Sure.
9.  Sure.  Whatever.

I think he wanted to be less explicit.

I don't think that most ladies such as yourself that have a profile on TER truly understand or appreciate how much that helps you.  Whether or not guys admit it is one thing, but I suspect that a lot of the guys that you think you meet on Twitter and are scheduling an appointment with you are NOT doing that just based on your charming Twitter presence.  

I believe you also dwell in the sugar bowl where reviews don't really exist.

This won't be popular with a lot of people but ...
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TER is for Gents (and virtual Gents.)  In other words, reviews.
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Therefore the best thing TER could do for gents is to not let providers take down reviews.
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Just like restaurants and hotels can't take down reviews on those sorts of sites.  

I have found the presence of providers in discussions sometimes valuable and often pleasant.  
However, the main use of TER for me is the reviews.  I have not connected through a providers' ad here yet.  

I don't believe the theory that F/S killed TER.  It's been a huge obstacle, yes. But it's not lethal by itself. The life blood of TER is, always has been, and always will be, the huge body of detailed reviews which cannot be force-modified by the providers.  That's always been what I value about the site; what will this provider do-specifically, what will she not do-specifically, and will I enjoy my time with her. I have yet to see an ad board or alternate review site that provides the consistently-detailed reviews that I find here. Oh sure, occasionally I see other review boards that have check boxes or multiple acronyms in their reviews, but you cannot really know if the reviewer knows what these terms mean.  "GFE" is perhaps the best example. Even here mongers cannot agree exactly what GFE means in total, but we (almost?) all agree it contains at LEAST DFK and BBBJ.  Too  many reviews on other sites will say "GFE" but the description of the session explicitly sates LFK or no kissing and CBJ.  There are no standards for these reviews while TER has a "legacy standard" that comes from 1,500,000 reviews!  
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Why do I rant on about this? Because TER's health is poor due to a dearth of recent reviews on a large portion of active providers. That's what's killing the site.  When the reviews come back, the value comes back as well. F/S essentially stopped new reviews (in the US) for a long time. Long enough that providers and mongers had to develop other sources; some good, many bad.  Now just as the population of current reviews was increasing, COVID-19 fucked TER again (sorry, couldn't resist the imagery .  But COVID will eventually pass.  And new reviews will start to be added.  
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Are all reviews perfect descriptions of TRUTH? Fuck no! But if you use the site for a while, a monger learns how to judge the judges, so to speak. We can see a reviewer's past reviews and scores, we can see his (or hers) consistent likes and dislikes and that allows us to discount portions of a review we believe are unfairly biased by the reviewer's personal tastes.  That's still extremely difficult to do on other sites. Those reviews are typically too generic and the reviewer has too little history to allow the reader to calibrate his "truthiness".  
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So, no disrespect to the OP, but tweaking rules is not the answer. Except for those rules which will let TER incent an increasing number of reviews for an increasing number of providers. That will get the blood flowing, and heal the site.  
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That is THE mission.  
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Life is good.  
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The Cat

Yeah, TER isn't what it used to be but I agree it's a little too soon to bury it.  As other Posters have commented, it's going to take awhile for the word to get out it's back.  Also, I agree this Covid-19 timing isn't helping either.  The current situation has affected TER in more ways than just a health scare/risk.  Let's not forget that unemployment is also off the charts not to mention reduced work hours.  This is putting an economic crunch on many.  Thus, less opportunity for Hobbying and less reviews.  I also believe with shelter in place, this also lessens the opportunities of play time with Hobbyists who are married or are with SO's.  Time will tell but I agree it's still too early to bury TER.

Maybe too late to recusistate but keep the 'politics' to the P and R board. It flooded over into the general board with all the baggage of bickering and sniping onto the GD board.

I agree with the last couple posts above. I'm not very high volume as a client/john, but I do post reviews, and have a strong preference for seeing providers who have reviews. The girls who I've seen since TER reopened have been, for the most part, happy to be reviewed.
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I still find TER very useful as is. There's still a decent volume of new reviews in the DC area.

I agree. TER is for reviews (and maybe ISOs). Ads by women are fine, but those that are most useful are those that provide details, either in the ad itself or through the link to the advertiser’s TER reviews. Twitter can teach me something about the provider but rarely is specific info on activities to be found in the thread. Switter can be more helpful in that regard, sometimes.

When was first on P411 they had specific menu items listed by the provider. That when combined with the TER reviews got me past the guy with the exaggerated sessions claimed by reviewer but instead meshing the two together worked for me.
Now the vague P411 barely lets one know of providers is an Escort, therapeutic, or sensual massage.
Hence the client value in TER .  
In spite of the critics of this site I truly believe that if a newer provider looks like her pictures , is ready on time, and delivers as promised — reviews here will help her business thrive.
Those that do not will be outed .
Think those like Mya will only prosper in conjunction with TER.

Maybe allow members to flag reviews for bullshit and require an explanation for why it’s bullshit? After a certain number of worthy reasons, TER initiates a discussion with the reviewer.

Yes, on that other place the provider response feature is working well.  
 - Provider gets first look at your review;
 - she gets to write one brief response;
 - your review is posted with her response;  
 - done.

That is NOT what we want for TER.  

When TER folded the day F/S passed, I thought it was over for me, and it would be hard to "prove" I was a reputable but to my shock, I started doing better. I met better clients, had a better time knowing I didn't have a dick review lingering over me, and developed more regulars and repeats.

Agree. The reviews are client generated and should be objective and fair.

The review/response part is working there.  Responses, including "You never saw me", can be quite informative.  

I find Twitter useful. I follow all the girls who I've seen or want to see, but also a lot who are out of my price range and otherwise am unlikely to see.

"Some" providers will simply challenge EVERY sub par review they get and EVERY non glowing review will start getting contested, not to mention most reviewers are not going to want confrontation every time they write a review. Reviewers are CUSTOMERS, this is not their livelihood and if you start filling their lives with drama every time they don't have the best experience with a hooker they are just going to quit writing reviews. Less reviews is a BAD thing for TER and that's why I doubt and I hope this policy will NEVER be adopted.

TER shouldn’t allow providers to delist. That is the only way to bring this site back.

To come back. I heard of  some perfect 10/10 providers , who got delisted because of one bad review, harassed reviewer a little, slightly bad mouth TER . TER would not reactivate their profile.

You can of course get kicked off the site with BSC behavior which includes "harassing" a reviewer for writing an honest review you don't care for which is considered "review manipulation"  

Delisting should be forbidden.  Now that twitter is the thing lots of escorts are delisting reviews here.  Reviews are the lifeblood of this site.  If you have a mass exodus, there is no reason for this site to exist.
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All past delisting should be reversed (assuming the records still exist.)  And no further delisting should be allowed.  Even if some escort is otherwise persona non grata, TER should keep the reviews, good or bad.

provider asks to be delisted,  decides to leave TER when she gets not so perfect review .

Simple as that.  There is always a suspicion when provider advertises everywhere, but it’s not on TER.

Some providers have reasons to delist that many here would find acceptable.  If you stop all delistings, then maybe there should be a way to partially anonymize a Profile.  
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E.g., some reasons are related to taking a real and important job (CIA, FBI, Starbucks barista, ..). Some reasons are related to stalking. Let her remove her phone number, URLs, and so on. Let her go over her reviews and ask for deletion of sensitive material.  
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Before: "She parked her van outside my place. It had a custom paint job with a clown with a brown hat and a princess with tiara set with 14 diamonds and an emerald. She had a bumper sticker that said "Honor Society, Jack Dunphy High School." She came to the door ..."  
After: "She parked her car outside my place.  She came to the door ..."
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Before: "She has some incredible tats! [Description that would make her too easy to ID by a jilted boyfriend.] But then she made me forget about everything but her great BJ skills. "
After: "She has some incredible tats! But she made me forget about everything but her great BJ skills."

I think the biggest help would be to not allow providers to delist themselves, it is absurd to allow that.
There is no good reason to allow them to delist, it is a review site and if you allow them to delist because they get poor reviews then what good is this place

I posted this before but if a provider has an established no review policy or communicates to the client that reviews are  unwelcome, then posting a review is inappropriate.  But other than that, if the review is legitimate, it should stand even if the provider later establishes a no review policy.  The new delisting policy has resulted with most new reviews limited to half-hour and agency providers.  But most of the young twitter hotties are nowhere to be found on TER.  Even if a review shows up, it vanishes quickly.  The new policy impairs TER and allows many providers to maintain their ridiculous rates and often times, their ridiculous smarter-than-everyone-else attitudes.-

I am pretty sure TER or any other site will run into some serious legal complication if they refuse to remove content about a person that is of such a non-public nature.

Can contact TER , they immediately sent it to reviewer for editing .

Don't let the door hit her on the ass on the way out.

I believe most everything I was going to contribute has been said, but I'll say it again.  It's been a perfect storm.  As I recall, there was a lot of animosity and distrust building up by a lot of the ladies regarding TER.  Predominantly based on how they perceived they were treated with little or no recourse.  Couple that with:
1.  Lots of ladies have moved on and found success utilizing other venues and other social media platforms
2. Time it's taken for a lot of people to realize that it's back
3. Enter COVID - 19
4. Lots of ladies and guys from the old days have moved on for good via retired or opted not to come back

I'm pretty sure now with off-shoring, legalities are no longer a concern.

If they are actually running add that is not on scraper site think it is public.
Therefore someone can create a profile - no different then a restaurant .
Just my opinion and think that is the way it was .
Was amazed how many never knew they had a profile or even TER existed with the BP adds.

Re “There is no good reason to allow them to delist...”:  I know some providers who delisted because TER refused to remove reviews that were blatantly false.  

Ok which other industry would you be ok with having a no review policy? Could you imagine auto companies demanding JD Power stop reviewing its vehicles?  

Keep in mind what we do is still illegal, there are some very good reasons for some providers to not want to be reviewed.

I tend to be more in the camp that all reviews should stay and there shouldn't even be a process to dispute them.  Ditto with profiles and not allowing delisting.  However, I do feel that a lady should be able to provide a limited response such as "never met" or "I don't provide the services listed in the review," etc.  If you are in this camp (everything stays), then you should also logically be in the camp that providers have some way to manage safety risks and such.  Reviewers can manage risk of reprisal by using an alias to write reviews.

Have a retired friend who with a new and sensitive job delisted over a year before TER shut down. Delisted in “good standing “ and to do so had to get all of her adds removed . Told me by doing that if she ever wanted to reactivate would easily be able to.  
Do feel that TER makes it too hard to contest a review with all proof that something did not happen being on her.

Reviews could be used as prima facie evidence.

That is a valid reason to not want to be reviewed. But most providers who delist aren’t delisting for that reason.

I have been a hobbyist for several years now.  I discovered AMPmaps 10 years ago, and looked only at the reviews to learn about massage providers.  Then along came AAMPmaps with reviews for escorts which is when I learned about more adventures.  Then things switched to EM, which was a great resource, with great reviews and pictures.  I thought it was great and well designed.  I would view the last several reviews and validate a consistency among them.  It was easy to spot the few phony ones.  Does anyone know what happened to EM?

Ha, reviews would be considered hearsay, not admissible.

The hearsay would be someone reading the review and then saying something. If the review was used, the review is saying this is something I participated in. Not hearsay I think.

I meant in cases where a review has been up for a long time and THEN, years later or approaching retirement, circumstances change enough to require delisting or anonymization, even without participation of the reviewer. There should be a mechanism for that.

I'm sure.  We all know reviews can be total works of fiction.  Therefore you would need a live witness to attest to the contents of the review.   If you have such a live witness, you have direct testimony and can ask the witness directly to recount his encounter.  The review is therefore either hearsay or superfluous.   Useless.
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And now, if a DA tried it it would be overruled by the judge.  If not overruled by the judge it would be overruled on appeal.  etc.

The answer is always it depends.  Reviews could be considered prima facie evidence and used as justification to do an investigation to obtain admissible evidence.  Prima facie just means "at first glance" - although a person would generally have to validate that a document/review is true for it to be admissible in most legal forums, Yelp and other reviews have been admitted as evidence.  While the Federal Rules of Evidence generally prohibit hearsay evidence, there are always exceptions (state of mind, and about 2 dozen other exceptions).  

...I've stuck around, through the highs and the lows, due to REVIEWS. I can say that only sites that I consistently is TER (and it's slow coming back to anything near useful) and a local board in my area that also still has reviews (although they've become less useful as most of the details are no longer available).

I don't really think the issue of fake and totally fictional reviews is really defining characteristic of hearsay.

to the hearsay rule is the business records exception, but you still need the custodian of records to verify that the document was kept as a business record and was created in the normal course of business.  Not sure reviews would pass muster for that since the record was created by someone else and merely delivered to TER, even though it may have been kept by them as a "business" record. As others have said, a person receiving a document usually is not qualified to testify to its authenticity, so Lester's take is correct.  

Suppose as a prosecutor you found a set of financial books that clearly implied some sort of illegal activity.  But you couldn't establish who actually dealt with the books.  You would start tracking down the transactions and see if you could find banking evidence, vendor records, etc.  You always have to establish some witnesses (or third party records.)  The books themselves may just be accountant training books.  Who knows.  

may find corroborative evidence that WOULD be admissible, but you may still not get the unverified documents in.  However, you may not need them if the trail let to evidence that will stand on its own to meet the prosecutorial burden of proof.