I very often read or at least skim all the reviews posted the day before over breakfast. I thought I noticed a significant drop in the number of reviews each day so I went back several months and quickly counted. It seems that the raw number of reviews posted each day is down as much as 30% or so from my limited quick counts.
I am curious if founder keeps these kind of stats and if it could be attributed to the new way reviews are approved. Or is it possibly the result of a Conservative wave sweeping across the country?
I am, in particular, noticing less reviews of out of the way not often visited clubs. The kind of places where intel is hard to find and reviews tend to be by new reviewers and pretty short. If the trend is toward two HK and two Follies reviews each day and little else, it won’t be long until the site has pretty limited value, at least for me.
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last commentMost unfortunately I tend to agree with your assessment as well as statements from others stating that the reviews are lacking in sufficient detail to provide solid intel.
Personally there isn’t much hope that my circumstances will ever allow a trip to HK or Follies. Therefore while those reviews are somewhat amusing they provide no actual support to my Mongering wanderings. Reviews of places that are scattered across the landscape would be much more valuable.
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How is it "apparent" if you have no comparative data? I've been seeing an average of 40+ review per day since forever, except on a few big holidays. That's over 14,000 reviews per year. Even if 1,000 of those were for international clubs, which I do not believe is the case, that would be 13,000+ reviews in a single year for a population of less than 2,500 U.S. clubs.
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There were 49 reviews posted Sunday and 49 reviews posted Saturday. That is two reviews every hour. There are only around 2,060 strip clubs left in the United States. The number has been declining for decades. It is a dying hobby. Guys aren't going to drop hundreds on a celibate half hour in a camera-ridden champagne room when they can fuck their 22 year old sugar baby for several hours for the same amount of cheddar.
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This was the point of my discussion a week ago. Increasing review standards will lead to fewer reviews. You guys have successfully reduced reviews and traffic to a site that has a revenue model dependent on reviews and traffic.
You haven't weeded out fake reviews, but you have reduced reviews for places that get few reviews to begin with because the members in those areas don't have the same desire to give details as those that spend their whole day checking TUSCL for reviews of clubs they will never visit.
Good job guys. TUSCL is no more useful than it was before the review crackdown, it has now become less useful.
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^damn skippy, you’re trippin’
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My understanding is that founder is aiming for better quality reviews. In such a process, you would expect the number of total reviews to decline. That’s the whole point, to get rid of all of the crap that used to get posted. Personally I think this is the right approach to take. A web site with tens of thousands of reviews much of which are crap is of no value to me. I don’t have the time or inclination to wade trough the crap. I’d much rather go to a site with only thousands of reviews if I don’t have to wade through tons of worthless crap.
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The reviewers get to decide whether a review is crap that’s good enough for
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In case you haven’t noticed, the accounts writing troll reviews have gotten deleted.
RIP Family_Man :(
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Have people like Icey who have never been to a club write all the reviews. She knows everything useless already.
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I’d rather see one good review covering the club well than ten crap reviews with nothing but “Sara was awesome; she grinded me gud” in them.
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If there are 20 percent less reviews but we are cutting the worst reviews from getting published, that's a win
If reviews that would be decent aren't getting written that's more of an issue.
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Reading crap reviews is no value added and a waste of time
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Some complain about not enough reviews for out of the way and less visited clubs, which are written by newer reviewers.
My suggested solution:
Visit these clubs and write a review.
I visited two clubs which had outdated or no reviews for six months (see Bliss Showgirls and Satin Topless) and had a good to great time at each.
Be part of the solution.
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I've been reading and writing reviews for this site for 20 years. I get lenient with reviews for clubs with few if any reviews. Especially international ones excluding TJ.
BTW I have had a review rejected in the beginning because the editor(yes they used to read all of them) thought that is was just a report of personal experience rather than a review. I rewrote and and it was accepted.
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No worries people no loser on earth won't be defended by Icey. Write crap review? Shoot cop? leech off soicety? Abuse your kid? Icey will defend you, unless you are male, white and employed.
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Icey's got a point, getting divorced from someone and continuing to feel entitled to their money and possessions is the definition of being a leech.
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Idk about the leeching thing persay. The problem atm is that society is in a weird in between thing right now.
A career oriented woman who leans in a la Sheryl Sandburg? Absolutely leaching.
A woman who cut her career to part time, or takes lower pay because it’s more flexible, or even quits entirely to manage a household...with years “wasted” that could have been spent advancing her career. That’s not so clear cut.
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It is pretty interesting looking up club reviews in places that aren’t cities. A lot of reviews will be from one individual back-to-back.
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^ Icee has no point he’s made 4400+ comments not a single one positive thing has been said about anything or anyone.
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My point was that if we are headed for 13 reviews a day from the usual clubs why bother. Five reviews from seldom named clubs that state simple intel like extras for $50, $500 or not in a million years are mega useful and can save me a trip or even a travel. Clubs with no current info should have their reviews cleared if they are a little plausible; and Follies, DDs, Detroit, COI and TJ can have as high a bar as you like. We all know everything there is to know about them. Maybe reviews of clubs with over 100 recent reviews should not earn VIP credit?
And BTW, maybe desertscrub could lighten up on the rookie reviewers a bit. We are all entirely impressed with his superior intellect (as in he’s the only one who can spot a shill review) but he discourages new reviewers by trying to embarrass and diminish them. We were all rookies once, see @shadowcat post above, but maybe if he could offer a private message that encourages instead of dressing down the newbies.
Nah, that won’t happen.
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