Trying to find motivation to write more reviews
rickdugan
Verified and Certifiable Super-Reviewer
I have several years worth of VIP in the bank, which I rightly earned by providing good intel about a number of club visits. But I have to be honest that I'm now struggling to find the motivation to keep doing so. The one remaining motivation I had was the ability to influence a club's ratings due to having higher review/club counts.
But founder took privilege away after one member shamefully abused it, so now a 1 and 1 troll gets as much sway as a guy with 200+ clubs under his belt. I understand why he did it, but now the shills are in charge of club ratings, which I think is a greater harm than one dipshit doing some random damage because he's on the rag or has an agenda.
Believe it or not, the ability to influence ratings even motivated me to venture out every so often and try a thinly reviewed club. So yes, in some ways, this even impacts my willingness to TOFFT or to seek out a hidden gem as writing reviews was often an extension of my club fun.
Anyway, hopefully I'll find some altruistic reason soon as I have trips coming up and I haven't updated some local club reviews in a while, but idk.
But founder took privilege away after one member shamefully abused it, so now a 1 and 1 troll gets as much sway as a guy with 200+ clubs under his belt. I understand why he did it, but now the shills are in charge of club ratings, which I think is a greater harm than one dipshit doing some random damage because he's on the rag or has an agenda.
Believe it or not, the ability to influence ratings even motivated me to venture out every so often and try a thinly reviewed club. So yes, in some ways, this even impacts my willingness to TOFFT or to seek out a hidden gem as writing reviews was often an extension of my club fun.
Anyway, hopefully I'll find some altruistic reason soon as I have trips coming up and I haven't updated some local club reviews in a while, but idk.
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And no, I am not suggesting that users not be able to retain earned VIP. If they earned it, they should be able to keep it. I'm just suggesting that reverting back to a system which gives experienced reviewers a bit more say on the ratings is (1) fair; (2) will provide motivation for seasoned hounds to keep writing reviews; and (3) is more conducive to better rating intel in most instances. I understand that founder wishes that he never included ratings in the first place, but they are here now and people use them, especially when researching travel clubs in heavily populated club regions.
I have no idea to what extent (if any) my reviews factored into a club’s ratings and patronage.
A few years ago I wrote about how one of the clubs I liked to frequent had a VIP, VIP room but that it didn’t open until at least 7 PM. Despite this, for a small fee, I was allowed to go to the VIP, VIP room with my dancer well before 7 PM with the result that we had the place all to ourselves.
Within a month or two of posting these reviews, I found that the VIP, VIP room was getting pretty full in the mid-afternoons.
Of course, I don’t know if my reviews had anything to do with it, but I suspected they did.
However I do do a review on Follies every 3 or 4 months just because I have a lot of TUSCL friends that want to hear that I'm still alive and well.
Also, I have found many clubs that I have enjoyed spending time in because of TUSCL. So I feel a little bit of "pass it forward" to let others know what I have learned.
I wonder if @Dugan tried to post this as @48cowboy and forgot to switch accounts.
Now I will admit to writing reviews for the membership privileges, but I'm not a natural writer like some of you are and it doesn't come easy, so I feel this is also my contribution to this community, and I do believe in community service, always have.
All I can say is that I've written over 180 reviews on this site and, while I like to contribute or else I would never have hit that mark, I find myself far more motivated when there is an additional meaningful component to it.
I write reviews to share with the community but more importantly I get to relive the good, funny, and bad experiences one more time.
Sometimes, as I recollect I wonder: did that really happen to me?
For example, I reviewed Bliss Showgirls in COI because no one reviewed it for 6 or 7 months and I had a great time visiting and lots of fun writing it up.
If TUSCL members enjoy and/or benefit from my reviews great but really I write them for my benefit.
Motivations - Sharing an experience, good or bad, that if nothing else reminds me what the hell I want.
Unmotivations - Spending money at a club because it’s “there”, even though they won’t (or can’t) offer anything worthwhile. Or potentially getting ripped off.
Motivations - Sharing an experience, good or bad, that if nothing else reminds me what the hell I want.
Unmotivations - Spending money at a club because it’s “there”, even though they won’t (or can’t) offer anything worthwhile. Or potentially getting ripped off.
I think the expensive 1 oz short shot pourss, charges for water backs and the goofy self entitled hustlers were really the reason that the one member doesn't like it. But we do know that Baby Dolls is loved by its employees, who own more tuscl shill accounts than juice does troll accounts. ;)
Nice trolling btw nice. ☺
If we want to weight ratings, (which really wouldn't change much), I propose that the people who visit the club more often receive a higher weighting than the traveler, after all, they know more about the club. But since I understand that weighting has little value I digress.
I think it boils down to the simple fact that you think your opinion on a club is more valuable than someone else, even though everyone goes for different reasons.
I actually don't disagree with the notion that some guy who has 20 reviews all in a local area probably has a better handle than I do on a club. But it's rarely those guys that I'm taking issue with and my ratings are likely to sync up with theirs 9 times out of 10.