Posted By: RodTidweLL
as a community?
Answer: yes and no! Depends on who you ask and it wouldn't be a 50/50 proposition that the community is looked at positively here.
If you want reviews to mean something many things would have to change.
First all the dudes who dangle reviews over a lady's head as a way of 'getting what they want' need to be openly and unequivocally punished. All ladies who hurt the review process by threatening to out/blacklist a guy for an 'honest' review need to be delisted.
Integrity will always be lacking if whistleblowers of peoples actions are attacked by people through aliases and cliques of members, that happen to like the member behaving badly and willing to ignore the bad behavior, spew misinformation, or attack on that persons behalf.
More integrity on the boards, and maybe minor changes to the review system and you would have the TER you seek.
For now TER is tolerated, until a site with more integrity shows up. A few decades ago nobody thought MySpace wasgoing aanywhere, then Facebook gave users what they wanted, NOT what they thought they should have.
Giants can always fall to their knees, happens all the time.
Good News! TER has a chance to be that site you are seeking, that's strong and stands for something! Or it will be passed on by the new 'IT' site and become just another deserted site with a few dozen board boys exchanging stories.
During my banishment I saw a few websites like that and thesame group of board boys, doing the same thing they do here. and very few other members.
Perhaps...
I just think girls pander to TER to keep the userbase happy because it can be beneficial and valuable.....but the reviews do not make or break their total business. But then again not everyone checks yelp to figure out the best restaurant or best bang for the buck. Then you got the lack of education about TER....but some girls do put TER on BP adds to show the importance be it safety or quality.
Yeah, TER reviews being the end all be all of a ladies career could definitely lead to abuse by reviewers with motives. I guess the best to expect to from TER is to make sure she is not LE and not a rip off.
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