Are Reviewers Not Required to Have Forum Profiles?

[+ Keith30309]

In light of recent events, I'm starting to scrutinize the reviews posted by first-time reviewers a little more closely before I take the content at face value and move forward. If a reviewer also has some forum posting and some longevity here then I feel pretty assured that everything is above board.

 

Are reviewers not required to have a forum profile? If not then that's fine - I understand the need to keep the two entities separate - but reviews by people who are also known forum members carry allot more weight with me.

 

On a related note, it may be my imagination but it seems that there are allot more forum postings by people who just joined. Is this statistically demonstrable or am I loony tunes?

[jawjateck]

Back in the Hooboy days, I posted reviews under a different name. During that era, I lurked on the forum, but never joined. In 2005, I joined the forum, began posting and using this ID to submit reviews too. It is common for clients to use one name to submit reviews and another name in this forum. And yes, there are reviewers who never log on here.

 

I started hiring using reviews, but I'm a bit more skeptical now than back then. When I was a newbie client, it didn't take much to impress me. With experience, I have raised the bar as for what constitutes excellent service. Some of those "recommended"s in the early 2000s would barely receive a "satisfactory" now.

 

As for reliability......I don't believe any report unless I have met the person submitting the review or offering the forum comment, but that's just me. Some folks take everything written here as absolute truth. Yikes!

[whipped guy]

Back in the Hooboy days, I posted reviews under a different name. During that era, I lurked on the forum, but never joined. In 2005, I joined the forum, began posting and using this ID to submit reviews too. It is common for clients to use one name to submit reviews and another name in this forum. And yes, there are reviewers who never log on here.

 

I started hiring using reviews, but I'm a bit more skeptical now than back then. When I was a newbie client, it didn't take much to impress me. With experience, I have raised the bar as for what constitutes excellent service. Some of those "recommended"s in the early 2000s would barely receive a "satisfactory" now.

 

As for reliability......I don't believe any report unless I have met the person submitting the review or offering the forum comment, but that's just me. Some folks take everything written here as absolute truth. Yikes!

My experience virtually replicates that of jawja. I submitted reviews for years under a different moniker during the HooBoy era, and well before WG ever came into existence. That happened in 2005 when I officially joined the forum. I never changed my review moniker, though perhaps I should have because at least a couple of working guys were disappointed that they did not get the WG seal of approval. Well they did, but it was not obvious in spite of the activities discussed!

 

Also, believe half of what you see and none of what you hear, or read... And especially what you read here!

[+ deej]

Reviewers have never been required to have forum names.

 

Fewer than 10% of the daddysreviews.com traffic visits m4m-forum.org. That's a statistic that has held steady for more than a decade.

[curiousnomore]

I've always taken the reviews here with a grain of salt. Frequent reviewers with similar tastes as me, like jawjateck, I accept without question.

[Peaker]

I review quite often and occasionally look at or participate in a forum. I also use the reviews in finding escorts, but I have learned to be cautious about other reviewers. Obviously it's best when an escort has a number of reviews so one isn't dependent on a single assessment, possibly by unreliable reviewer. If a reviewer has more than one review, I'll often try to find other reviews by that reviewer. If we have an escort in common, it really helps me assess his reliability! However - I wish it were easier to identify reviewers on this site. A collection of reviews by one reviewer does provide somewhat of a profile for that reviewer. (For example - I almost never write a negative review. If I don't feel positive about the experience, I just don't write since I feel that may just be bad chemistry and not of value to other guys looking for an escort.)

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

I have reviewed under my forum handle as well as a handle reserved only for reviews. All of my reviews are positive because I won't review a guy unless we've met at least three times. And if I don't like him, we never get to three. (Chemistry happens.)

 

I've noticed more new users recently, but daddy's has been in the news. I would guess most of them are just like us...

[+ Keith30309]

I, likewise, am reluctant to post a negative review for the same reason. The only ones I have formally submitted are cases where I was stood up. I've never had a wacko or scam situation - the worst has been simply "blah".

[OneFinger]

I always review under my profile ID. Personally, I think it adds credibility to a review when it's submitted by someone that is known in the forums. And when hiring an escort for the first time, I encourage them to search my posts so they have an idea of my personality and likes.

[+ Gar1eth]

I, likewise, am reluctant to post a negative review for the same reason. The only ones I have formally submitted are cases where I was stood up. I've never had a wacko or scam situation - the worst has been simply "blah".

 

I've had some blahs and one wacko who fell asleep in the middle of making out. I think it was either drugs, or I'm more boring than even I think I am. Plus I must give off a lot of body heat because the guy started sweating also. But in regards to reviews, my understanding is that on Daddy's you can't submit reviews for no-shows. On Rentmen you might be able to submit a bad review. But from an email months ago before all the Rentboy brouhaha, as they were just starting reviews, they said they would hold on to negative reviews without publishing them until the escort had some good reviews. The only well-known site I know where you can relate being stood-up is Cruising For Escorts for an escort advertising on M4RN.

 

Gman

[+ Keith30309]

....But in regards to dubnium get reviews, my understanding is that on Daddy's you can't submit reviews for no-shows. On Rentmen you might be able to submit a bad review. But from an email months ago before all the Rentboy brouhaha, as they were just starting reviews, they said they would hold on to negative reviews without publishing them until the escort had some good reviews. The only well-known site I know where you can relate being stood-up is Cruising For Escorts for an escort advertising on M4RN.

 

Gman

 

You're right Gman - I'd forgotten it was RB where I has submitted my 2 no-shows.

 

I began to think a bit more about this and it occurs to me that my non-submission of "blah" reviews may be a mistake. As VHC points out, sometimes a guy is just having a bad day but that information may be helpful to others nonetheless. I'm hesitant to tag a guy with a less-than-positive review that is going to remain indefinitely, but, simply stating the facts (e.g., "he said that he was 45 minutes late due to traffic") in as objective a way as possible should be fair and helpful to readers. Frankly, Jawjatek's type of "he's a nice guy but....." blog entries have been very helpful to me.

 

I'm going to think about the handful of non-stellar experiences I've had in the last couple of months and consider submitting something brief but hopefully informative.

[+ Gar1eth]

 

I'm going to think about the handful of non-stellar experiences I've had in the last couple of months and consider submitting something brief but hopefully informative.

 

I don't know if this will help. But my personal policy on when I've had a meh time is to consider whether it was the escort or whether I was the problem. If it was me-for example I get there, and for some reason, I'm not as attracted to the guy as I thought I'd be-then I just chalk it up to chemistry as I realize he'd probably be fine for someone else. I most likely wouldn't write a review in this case because even if you explain it was most likely you, those kind of reviews still often sound like you are damning with faint praise or praising with faint damns.

 

 

 

Gman

[Nebost]

Reviewers are not required to be forum members, but I think many of the forum members use their registered name when submitting reviews...I always do. Associating a known member with a review gives it much greater validity.

 

I also do not write negative reviews unless I think I was outright mislead, I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt and not write any review. I think it must be very difficult to have the possibility of a bad review everytime an escort works, so I hesitate to say something bad about a guy. I only write very positive reviews in general, for guys that gave me a great time. That said, some reviewers who were both fair and critical do provide informative and valuable information.

[Meetoo691]

What would you do if you had a show up, take the money and run??? I don't want it to happen to others... This escort had 2 reviews from different people, but they were first time reviewers. What's your thought.

[jawjateck]

What would you do if you had a show up, take the money and run??? I don't want it to happen to others... This escort had 2 reviews from different people, but they were first time reviewers. What's your thought.

 

Easiest review to submit. An objective statement of the facts will suffice, and every reader is properly cautioned. No name calling or subjective analysis is necessary.

[seaboy4hire]

Reviewers have never been required to have forum names.

 

Fewer than 10% of the daddysreviews.com traffic visits m4m-forum.org. That's a statistic that has held steady for more than a decade.

 

Why do you think that is?

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ Keith30309]

What would you do if you had a show up, take the money and run??? I don't want it to happen to others... This escort had 2 reviews from different people, but they were first time reviewers. What's your thought.

 

I'd quickly post a review... and a comment in the forum simply stating that a review is forthcoming. As a potential client I'd like to know about it quickly as possible because there's an element of physical risk. As jawja says, just the facts suffice.

About 8 months ago I hired a guy - it was a 'blah' experience and I never wrote a review; a month later there was a comment posted by someone that he had stolen their money. I'm not sure that if I had posted that mediocre review it would have had any bearing on that person's experience but it makes me wonder.

 

To the question about the two reviews from the first-time-reviewers, maybe they were fakes and maybe not - there's no way to know without having a means to contact them. You don't say where you read the reviews and perhaps there's no way to contact them and ask, and I'm not sure what there is to gain at this point anyway.

 

 

Question to Deej or whomever: Is there an issue if submitters of reviews include their Forum screenname in their reviews? In other words, is there any reason to maintain a formal separation of the two entities for any reason (thinking back to RB)? My names are the same and I'm frequently contacted by forum PM about guys but there's not a formal linkage.

[+ Gar1eth]

 

Question to Deej or whomever: Is there an issue if submitters of reviews include their Forum screenname in their reviews? In other words, is there any reason to maintain a formal separation of the two entities for any reason (thinking back to RB)? My names are the same and I'm frequently contacted by forum PM about guys but there's not a formal linkage.

 

I'm obviously not Deej-but from what I've seen over the years-it's purely personal choice whether Review Monikers are the same as Forum Aliases. As to why some people don't have the same name in both, I'm sure sometimes it just happened, and for some there may be private reasons to separate the two.

 

Gman

[+ sf westcoaster]

The majority of the reviews I have written have been under the same name as my screen name.

[+ deej]

Why do you think that is?

 

Probably for the same reason the lion's share of message forum traffic is what we call "lurkers" -- they read but never post.

 

It's been that way on every sort of electronic forum since the medium was invented.

[+ deej]

I'm obviously not Deej-but from what I've seen over the years-it's purely personal choice whether Review Monikers are the same as Forum Aliases.

 

Yup. I stopped using my forum name on reviews because some forum miscreants started harassing escorts I reviewed looking to dig up dirt on me. The escorts don't need or deserve that noise.