I agree... posting reviews can be cumbersome... and it is frustrating knowing that only the narratve gets any notice but that is just the way it is here. My biggest copmlaint is the "approval process" for reviews. It seems like there is a pretty lengthy criteria in order to get your reviews published...
I have several reviews that were submitted and then rejected due to dead links or bad phone numbers... but it also takes the admins too long to "review" the reviews to get them posted. I just continue to submit and no longer argue the points as it simpley is not worth my time. I only feel bad for thise I have reviewed that folks never get to see and therefore either miss out or get screwed.
It is what it is... There are other review sites if you find this one not to be to your liking.
Fog
I am not a big reviewer, and part of that is because of the hassle involved in submitting reviews. I have to open multiple windows in my browser to find the provider's email, website address, and other information that I may not remember offhand and fill it all in before writing my review. This is despite the fact that most or all of this info is not necessary for the review, it is already there on the provider's review page.
It would be much easier if we could just click a button on the review page and "add" a review to a provider without having to fill in all of her information again. Is there a way to do that that I am not aware of, or is this something that can be added to the site?
The TER site seemed so user unfriendly when it came to writing reviews. I am very computer tech savvy. So I know how easy it would be to change the code on this site and just ad a submit update button to existing providers reviews.
For some inexplicable reason the arcaic design of this web interface is purposely made painful. Like I had to learn how to bypass the mandatory field of phone number, when the lady did not want her phone number listed. I did not see a how to do that anywhere.
Many of earlier exploits went undocumented. I also did not want to write about any of the "just ok" or bad experiences.
But I have seen how others sharing there experiences here have helped me get better results when I am hormonoly overdosing and challenged.
Now I use the multiple screen cut & paste methodology described by others here and it is not as painful a process, but it still suxs.
And it has been brought up many times on the board. Always seemed like a reasonable suggestion to me and something TER should be able to easily convert. It does take time to fill in all the blanks and it can be frustrating especially when you consider nothing you contribute changes the Profile...Only the narrative text of your review affects the Profile.
Requiring us to do this is annoying but I bet it helps keep reviews to the right lady. I bet without it we would see reviews under the wrong person more often.
and good and bad reviews posted to the wrong profile hurts us all.
just my 2 cents
Ive got an issue with trying to make a change to an existing profile when writing a review.
I cant do it. I input something, say a new website or phone number...Just dosent show up which begs the question of why is this requireed to write a review at all?
Oh, then there is my all time favorite..when entering an internet address, make you use http/:: not www. in front of the address.
Im always reminded of this when my review is rejected.
Just one more reason why some days I think well, I would like to write a review for this girl as she was just wonderful and I'd like to help her if I could.. Then I wonder if I can actually accomplish this feat. I pretty much always succeed but with some effort.
So to whine on but the whole review business can be irritating to say the least.
In addition to what STP said, I would think it's actually more work for the TER staff as they have to take your review and track down matching reviews to combine the details. Since they only put in your narrative and don't update the profile stats there really isn't any benefit to doing it this way for TER and I'm sure keeps many people from writing reviews.
But as also mentioned it's been brought up many times before.
I agree... posting reviews can be cumbersome... and it is frustrating knowing that only the narratve gets any notice but that is just the way it is here. My biggest copmlaint is the "approval process" for reviews. It seems like there is a pretty lengthy criteria in order to get your reviews published...
I have several reviews that were submitted and then rejected due to dead links or bad phone numbers... but it also takes the admins too long to "review" the reviews to get them posted. I just continue to submit and no longer argue the points as it simpley is not worth my time. I only feel bad for thise I have reviewed that folks never get to see and therefore either miss out or get screwed.
It is what it is... There are other review sites if you find this one not to be to your liking.
Fog
After my first review in which I didn't follow directions, I haven't had one rejected or even delayed inordinately. Proper URLs begin with "http://" so use them. Poor little babies -- you have to open more than one window to do a proper review. Tsk, tsk.
If you let guys fire off a review with a single click and type process, we'd get far more worthless reviews than we do now -- which is plenty. If this relatively simple process proves to be too much effort, then I'm not sure I'd value your opinion much.
If you find something inaccurate in a profile, why not try submitting a problem report?
Wow, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
....type it in Word so you don't lose it, or have it timed out.
2nd....open up providers profile in 1 window, then open another window & go to submit a review, copy & paste all her info from her profile to your review.
3rd...copy & paste your review from Word, and....
4th...click submit....that's it.
Are all you guys whining about it in your 70's & not computer savvy? (not you STP of course, lol) It ain't rocket science....
Yes, I agree about the profile usually stays the same except maybe the website….and can be improved on, but still, not really that difficult overall submitting a review.
I agree... my comments were more based on the time it takes for a review to be aproved. Often times that can allow the post to expire and therefore the review goes unpublished as a result.
If the review were published at least the name and number of the provider would be available.
I agree, and with nitlion above as well. Posting a review is really not difficult at all. I think it takes me a total of perhaps 2 minutes to fill in all of that stuff, after I have written up the review in Word.
Making this modicum of initiative the reviewer's responsibility probably cuts down the rate of fake and unhelpful reviews significantly.
Another thing I want to point out is that sometimes it is very difficult to find a review of a provider. Because they change phone number and names all the times. And sometimes they embed these ASCII characters into their names and phone numbers to fool searches. I don't know why they do that unless they have something to hide.
I wish you could search by pictures....
Obviously, this would not apply for a provider's first review.
- Find your provider profile
- Click the review provider button
- A new review page would pop-up with all the profile information set to match the base profile
- the reviewer would modify anything that they did not agree with - age, services, etc
- write review and submit
Here is the kicker, and why every review should rehash all the profile data. I think TER should store and allow VIPs to see the profile info submitted from each and all reviewers.
That would make these meaningful. You could then see that the provider provided service XXX in only one of 20 reviews. You could also select based on time to see that she used to do X and now she seems to do Y.
Just my opinion, and yes, I have suggested it before...
I tried and failed to post 2 reviews.
Apparently there are unwritten rules on what you say and how you say it, which pretty much explains why reviews start to sound all the same.
So after going to through the redundant info gathering stage and taking the the time to write two fairly lengthy reviews and getting bounced both times, I gave up.
btw...I can't even go into why my second review was taken down as I found out that it is a verboten subject on this board and this response would never be posted.
from what i have seen its really only difficult when the lady has numerous ads and phone nos and when a client puts up a ridiculous review on her.aal things considered if we do our part and they do theres a review can go quite swiftly.
just my observation.
one day someone will come up a sure solution.