Is LOTS of reviews a red flag?

[SouthOfTheBorder]

3 hours ago, Simon Suraci said:

You all are right to have your fraud detectors on high alert, but once in a while a legit client leaves multiple genuine reviews. It’s not always fraud.

agree

re; the screenshots I posted - one “client” left 34 reviews from a total of about 40 reviews that are visible. It could be one enthusiastic client.  It could also be someone who has figured out how to game it.  
if one client is leaving vast majority of reviews, it really doesn’t mean anything anyway

I definitely look at # of reviews first and do a quick check for any pattern of bad reviews.  If they make that cut, then go deeper into the patterns to see if the reviews look fake

these days - if anything looks suspect at all, it’s a no  

[DWnyc]

On 5/23/2024 at 1:28 AM, NYXboy said:

I have seen a provider who when I went to tip him he said to me - keep the tip, pay for membership and leave me a review on RM. It would be more valuable to me. 

Have had the same experience several times. Esp for newer providers or those starting a new profile from scratch.

[Jiminy]

At this point, I think it's hard to take any review text at face value anymore. I usually ignore any generic-sounding praises. I do find some value in the price/duration/service type entries in the reviews though.

[Tom C. Sinclair]

I agree with @Jiminy

[DMonDude]

It's starting to not be a good or bad metric on it's own to me anymore. Things that used to be red flags to me are starting to be ok depending on the context of what else is on the profile. Reviews that sounded like English wasn't the first language used to be a red flag to me (because it can come off like a bought bot farm), but depending on the guy and who that guy is most likely to appeal to and what area they're working in, that may be normal. I've seen guys with dozens and dozens of reviews which to me used to read as fake/botted/bought reviews, and then i've met them and they actually just are that good and had that many people leave reviews.

I've also come to not be skeptical of lots of reviews in a short time span anymore either because some sites like Rent Men show publicly the metric of how many profile visits a profile gets. Even new profiles can wrack up thousands of views in a matter of weeks. So to think that even a new profile that has like 10k views and already had a few people take a chance and leave 5-10 reviews doesn't seem that crazy to me statistically. Now if somebody with a month old profile had 30+ reviews that would seem a little fishy. But i personally haven't seen that.

Particularly on Rent Masseur too they tell you not to be too explicit in the review for obvious reasons. So there's kinda only so much you can say without getting into the details. So the fact that basically every review all use a lot of the same buzzwords to describe the massage doesn't really ring the alarm to me anymore. It really now comes down to do they have NO reviews at all, how new is the profile, do the pics look like they were taken in this decade/recently, is their profile Verified, and what their bio/description write up is like.

[ThirdEye]

I prefer guys who have lots of reviews from different individuals- I think guys that get lots of reviews from the same exact person every month do a disservice to themselves.

[italianboyph]

I don't think so. I get why it might be of concern, especially if there's a pattern. I've been reviewed many times and they're all real and legit. 

[mike carey]

10 hours ago, italianboyph said:

I don't think so. I get why it might be of concern, especially if there's a pattern. I've been reviewed many times and they're all real and legit. 

And I know you're real and legit too!

[Pepper Young]

I definitely look at reviews. I look at the average. Since you can't please all the people all the time, I look for an average of 4.7 or greater. Anything less than that is a red flag. I look at the date of the last review. Was it two years ago? Pass. Are there no reviews even though the provider has been advertising for a while? Red flag. It's all part of the vetting process. 

[italianboyph]

5 hours ago, mike carey said:

And I know you're real and legit too!

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