Percentage of Legit Reviews
jerikson40
New York
The more I apply a skeptical eye to the reviews, the more I find are totally bogus. There was one recently posted for HiLiter in PHX which is an obvious copy/paste/reword of a review from a couple of weeks ago. And then there are tons of reviews around the country that are nothing more than rehashing of useless info.
I've reported a bunch of reviews, but it kind of pisses me off that there are so many a-holes who won't take the time to make a simple trip to a club to do a legit review, and instead post useless crap.
Got something to say?
Start your own discussion
21 comments
Latest
Really? Well, that's good to hear.
BTW, if you want a laugh, you should check out the review I'm talking about. It's pretty funny. The guy even changed the part that originally read "I had one dancer tell me she was nearly finished with Vet School" to "I had one dancer tell me she was nearly finished with Law School". At least he didn't just copy and paste, he tried to cover his tracks. He was a moron in how he did it, but at least he tried.
Wouldn't hurt if the Founder had more resources to monitor reviews.
Fake reviews are not as much of a problem as short, no info reviews. I admit I'm guilty of that sometimes. After you've been to a club a lot, not much new to say.
His review was indeed odd, but I think English may not gave been his native language.
If it was his "first time ever" in a strip club, how could he determine it was a "haven for old-age men", Lol.
And I found his STD comment amusing.
So given all that I just don't see there being much incentive to write fake reviews. Some suggests that people with mischievous minds get fun corrupting the system, but, IME, such minds wil turn their efforts to where there is some economic gain.
All you are left with is people can't spring for $80 lifetime membership who want a free month. Something tells me such people aren't going to work hard on writing a review that passes the sniff test.
I look skeptically at reviews that occur simultaneously for the same club yet one of them seems really generic.
Newbies tend to overrate so I give users with more review more weight. That's why I find the # clubs reviewed so important so you know that the review has been to clubs other than their only hometown club.
The bigger problem is there is no uniform standard. Savanna's on Hanna is still like #6 on the home page. It's a good club and easily the best in the local area, but not the best in PA and not remotely #6 overall IMO unless there is something I'm missing about that place.
20 years ago I lived in Hawaii and there was a place in Waikiki in which all the dancers had been featured in either Playboy or Penthouse. I remember walking into the place and immediately saw the girl on the cover of Playboy's, "Girls of Summer" Those were 10s. The girls in Jacksonville, FL or outside Tampa (Pasco County) are just "girl-next-door" types. So, I don't give 9 or 10s for GND types.
As far as addressing the post, most of the reviews suck. They don't provide an overall feel for the place, but simply a couple lines of useless bullshit. A review should leave the reader with either, "Yea, I should check out this place", or "I should avoid this place." Sadly, most do not.
I myself leave much out sometimes to protect the guilty.
I have reread my reviews and don't think there was enough to convince a reader to try it or avoid it.
I like.reading other club goers reviews but prefer to experience those clubs myself. I usually go to a club three times to get a good feel for the place.
Writing a good review is not that simple. One has to gather one's thoughts together, recapitulate on what happened, how things were, what were the interactions, did anything unusual happen; then think of what in he experience is and is not worthwhile to inform others about vs. what may be TMI or trivialities, and make an evaluation as to how you rank the different aspects of club ambience, dancer quality, value for your money. Then you have to figure out how to write it without it becoming essentialy "Yeah, what the last 3 guys said", and THAT I've found is the really hard part. 'cause some times I'm sitting at the screen and the realization hits me: I've nothing to realy say about this place.