How many reviews do you write and submit compared to how many club visits you make?
I review less than 50% of my club visits. Maybe even closer to 25%. I will almost always review a club if it's my first visit, if it's been over a year since my last visit, or if something exciting happened (i.e. an experience I think other PLs should know about).
Larryfish, yours don't count since all of your reviews are fake.
About 80 to 85% for me
i need to kick up my reviews here. i am way behind. both in numbers and in quality.
I've been hitting Follies about twice a week but limiting my reviews to once every 3 months. On all other clubs about 100% but I rarely go to any others.
I kinda stopped giving reviews and only make comments on other PLs reviews of clubs i go to if they appear incorrect. I may add some reviews if something changes and i dont see any other reviews about it.
Only post a review if it is a first visit for me or I have some additional/updated info from a previous visit especially hitting a ROB. So about 20 % if time, but I will be travelling a lot soon to new areas. So that will increase for next few months. Hey, a PL has to filled the day!!!!!
Strip club forum-wise, I come from a non-review culture, and it was a bit of a shock when I came here and saw guys slamming newbies for no reviews, etc. In the forums I'd posted on for many years, we'd always looked at reviews as things that guys submitted just to get VIP access, with generic descriptions, and ratings creep on the beauty of the girls (every girl was a 9, etc). The only valuable and believable information was on the forum itself, or gained through PMing your forum bros, we looked at the reviews skeptically, or as heresay that needed to be validated in the forum before it could be believed.
Because of that, I tend to not think about doing reviews, and I've only submitted a few reviews here, and even for those, I had to kick myself and tell myself "oh yeah, guys value reviews here, I should do one" once in a while. Probably time for me to do another, in fact
Only post a review if it is a first visit for me or I have some additional/updated info from a previous visit especially hitting a ROB. So about 20 % if time, but I will be travelling a lot soon to new areas. So that will increase for next few months. Hey, a PL has to filled the day!!!!!
^^^ Yes, that's another thing ... I go to the same 4 or 5 clubs all the time, and if I've posted a review, unless something radically has changed, there's not a lot more to say. So I tend to post reviews for the rare new clubs I go to.
In the "old" forums I was in, guys posted explicit reviews, mentioning girls and sex acts by name. Here, that's frowned upon, so the one piece of information that changes from trip to trip, isn't something I'd write about.
My work almost always takes me to the same areas so i end up in the same clubs over and over. I've previously been to many other clubs but haven't since before i signed up here so i haven't reviewed them.
I try to do reviews, because I like a good quality review if I'm thinking of checking out a club. So I'm just trying to pay it forward. Essentially writing the review that I would have liked to read about the club. I'll write an additional review if I have substantially new information. Some visits go w/o reviews if I have nothing to add.
I do wish there was some kickback to the meaningless/thin reviews. Like an email back to them saying the content didn't merit access to a month of VIP and giving them another chance to flesh out the review.
Having written 101 reviews of 77 different clubs in the past six years or so, my review-writing pace has slowed way down. Nowadays I write a review only when I visit a new club (which rarely happens any more) or something has changed substantially since my last review of an old club. I think my only new clubs this year are Hot Bodies in Austin and Blackjack's in Elgin, IL.
I agree with goosman: one of my peeves about the current system of granting VIP access to TUSCL is that a short, poorly written, uninformative review routinely earns its author as much access as an encyclopedic, highly informative review by such sterling authors as Papi_Chulo.
fellow mongers i'm heading to hong kong again. i called work and they said 'no work'. maybe i'll visit coi late wednesday night after tj.
I generally only write reviews anymore if it's somewhere I don't go to regularly. Nothing much ever seems to change at my regular clubs, so I generally don't write anything.
I'm probably in the 25% range at most, maybe more like 10-15. Like Shailyn, I generally only write a review if its been a while, the experience was out of the ordinary or there has been some change someone might find interesting. I generally try to avoid one-off reviews as well. I'll do it for some of the local clubs without many reviews, but at popular out of town clubs I don't. My reasoning is that my perspective is skewed, but I guess there is some value in reading a review from the perspective of someone from another area. Maybe I'll do one or two out of town ones next time.
Like goosman, I too find the shitty reviews annoying. What I find more annoying is that people "Prop" those reviews simply to say something negative, especially the "Club ad of the day" comment. If the review sucks, flag it. If it's good, or you have at least a neutral comment, prop it. There's flag options for being too shirt, incoherent, etc. Really, if founder's reading, I'd like to see some sort of scoring system. It doesn't have to be too sophisticated, a simple 1-5 rating or even thumbs up/down combined with an option to filter reviews below a certain rating or % of thumbs down would be great.
When I first joined TUSCL I was confused and literally couldn't figure-out why some people had more total reviews than clubs reviewed; in my mind one only need to review a club once.
But nowadays as an extreme-PL I see each SC visit as unique and thus worthy of a review or more like a story of how the visit went and how the club was that day. When I was in school my fave subject was History mainly b/c I liked to hear/learn-about good stories especially non-fiction ones - thus my like of stories/story-telling combined w/ my extreme PLness leads me to write many novel-style reviews.
There are some reviews that seem to be automatically rejected for being too-short - problem is Founder seems to be unable to go thru all, perhaps even most (?); flagged reviews and thus many seem make it thru.
Not every review needs to be a work of art; but too many try to take advantage of the system and write anything JUST to get VIP vs wanting to write a review - some even have the nerve to copy-paste the same 3 or 4 sentences several times within the review to make it long-enough to not get automatically denied and seems they still get thru even when flagged. - and it doesn't help the flag-comments seem to have a long-lag as to when they show-up (and thus why people use the instant Prom commenting) - what I do at times is put a negative comment via the Prop so it can be seen, and also flag-it.
I've noticed that reviews I flag that don't already have props on them are more often than not removed in a few days. However, when I flag a review that's got one or more negative props, my flag goes ignored. I'm just speculating, but I'd guess whomever is looking at the flags see's the props and just ignores the flags.
About 5%. I'll usually only post a new review if it is for a new club or if something really exciting and different happened. If I posted a review for every visit it would clog up the review section something awful.
The reason I sometimes 'prop' poorly written or uninformative reviews is that my attempts to 'flag' a review are often unsuccessful, whereas my 'props' always appear. It appears that both the evaluation of reviews for "VIP-worthiness" and the posting of flags are flawed.
Has anyone ever seen a review actually pulled due to a flagging?
^ Yes I flagged a fake review and it was pulled. It was awhile back and I don't recall which club it was but it was one that I had been to.
Yeah; Founder needs to stop jerking the chicken under the desk while he stares at Emily and start paying attention to the flags
That's Rech's job, but he is too busy adding new rotating taglines
If it's a new club I review it after my visit.
If it's been a year I will review a club I frequent to keep the club dated lol...kinda like a yearly physical lol.
Or if I happen to have a random story I just have to tell from a visit that went down at the club
I'm with shadow in reviewing follies once every 2-3 months after multiple double digits visits
1 in 4 or 5.
I generally post the review if something warrants it.
What I mean by that is that the experience was different than my previous visit or different than recent posts.
My averages are about the same as shailynn