Reviews... BCD vs. OPEN

<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS"><span style="color:#000080">With the beginning of what may turn out to be "the" new ASPD… this new review forum we have here, presents a few opportunities to alter the way reviews are "censored"… or not. As is, now… I have seen… in some areas… "BCD" comments being encouraged to be hidden from "public" view. For 90 something percent of all comments made in any particular review… I ask… WHY? The "other" 10% of potential, controversial issues is understandable.

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<span style="color:#000080">I wonder what the advantages are, of BCD comments not being public! In all my years of hobbying… I&#39;ve never met a girl who was too shy or sheltered to be offended by positive, graphic details. Perhaps... if she were to see any criticisms.... maybe... (just maybe) she might make a few adjustments, to insure repeat business. I realize that might be a far fetched hope.... but what penalty is there to suffer from offending a girl who you may not want to see again, anyway? The same applies to an agency girl… if we mean what we say… why hide it? Any negativity posted… if it&#39;s not done in an "asshole-ish" fashion…… might serve to offer some advice to the girls. Any "asshole-ish" (or embellished) comments can be thrown into the 10%.
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<span style="color:#000080">I say… let the level of graphic content define the character of the reviewer to everyone… including the girls… many of the girls "get off" on a guy who&#39;s willing to let it be known, what gets him off! If the girl can&#39;t handle potential criticism… maybe, they&#39;ve chosen the wrong profession.</span>
<span style="color:#000080"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">I guess, what I&#39;m saying, here, is… the more honest the review is… the more valuable it is! I have seen recent reviews, which say " Comments: Details will be done in the locker room" …………… WHY?</span></span>

<span style="color:#000080"><span style="color:#000080"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">Whatayathink?

Giz

P.S. - I&#39;ve recently seen the discussion of the possibility of "Hobbyist Reviews". . . . done by Provider/Companions, in another "Home2" forum (N.E. Texas). Whatayathink about THAT?
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To answer your last question first, Mr. Giz, I am in favor of hobbyist reviews. Active members of ASPD sometimes get pretty bad press on other boards. Mostly what I hear is about dawgs requesting discounts in excange for reviews, but I also hear stories about guys that are, at best, inconsiderate.

As far as reviews of providers are concerned, I am definitely in favor of keeping some of the comments BCD. Heaven knows I&#39;ve gotten some flack about seemingly innocuous things - usually just observations - that I&#39;ve put in my reviews.

Many of our girls are very insecure, and justifiably concerned with their reputations within the community. Even the tiniest criticism can, and does, blow up on us.

I think that the details of the session are fair game - should be public - and I also think the lady in question should be able to respond. But I think that the overall evaluation, including any negatives, should be BCD. If for no other reason than to save the dawg some grief and hopefully result in a more honest review.

I would like to see some changes in the process. I like the idea of grading the experience. Someone wrote a review the other day and gave a C+. To me, this was a very informative comment.

Secondly, I think that the 30-day comment rule should be suspended for the original reviewer. I see many of the girls that I review multiple times, and I would like the option of giving a follow-up note without writing a whole new review. It seems like it would make it much easier if all reviews of the same girl by the same dawg were in one thread. I know that every experience I have is different, and think that comments about follow-up encounters would be a very valuable addition to the process.

To recap:

I&#39;m in favor of the evaluations staying BCD
I think the lady should be able to reply
I like an enhanced grading system
Suspend the 30-day rule for the original poster


SeaDog

Mr. Giz - I just read your comments about this on TrainerDisaster&#39;s "Madison" review, and do agree with your observations. Maybe a solution would be to have a 2nd comment section for those details that the reviewer wants to keep BCD?

<span style="color:#000080">Given the current set-up… it&#39;s up to the guy to include whatever detail he chooses for the entire review… because there are no "hidden BCD" comments. He has to file a "separate" post in another private men&#39;s forum if he wants to keep some comments from the general public view. (a futile effort, in my opinion)</span>

I&#39;ll probably rile most of the girls here… but I disagree about them being able to reply to reviews. That would just lead to chaos, on some occasions. Let them have their own review forum of the guys. (Oh, what fun that would be!) :P

<span style="color:#000080">Another popular national review site has "1 thru 10" ratings for both both appearance and performance. I think that would be sufficient, as far as a grading goes.

Giz
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I&#39;m also in favor of keeping comments section in a BCD restricted area mainly because it makes some guys feel more comfortable about giving a review from their perspective if they feel like they won&#39;t have to worry about suffering retaliation/flak from the lady in question.....G, both you and I have been around here long enough to know that there are way too many ladies who just don&#39;t react well to any kind of negative criticism and they&#39;ll blow up a guy&#39;s email and/or phone if they get even the slightest unflattering comment.....Now, we both also know that there are plenty of people with access to BCD material who don&#39;t have any spine and will leak information to ladies so posting BCD isn&#39;t 100% secure, but still it makes many guys feel more secure if they post the comments about their session in an area that isn&#39;t supposed to be accessible by the ladies.....

Also, the ladies have their forums in which they do review the guys and the guys don&#39;t have access to that forum and what is being said about them, so it&#39;s only fair that the guys have a place that they can talk about the ladies and not worry about retaliation from an angry provider.....

Seadog, I used to be one of the only mods that allowed woment to respond to reviews but I had to cut that out and get onboard with the rest of the mod staff because of the fact that allowing them to respond in the reviews sections caused one lady to want to start a pissing contest with a reviewer because of what she perceived as negative comments about one of her girls.....If the ladies want to respond to their review they have a way to do it, but they will NOT be allowed to post in the reviews sections (again, this goes towards not wanting to have guys being afraid to post reviews for fear of retaliation from an angry provider).....

<span style="color:#000080">Don&#39;t read me wrong (I doubt many are).... I DEFINITELY agree that we, as dawgs, need our own space to post commentary which might be considered offensive to the female perspective, in general!! It&#39;s just a shame that, in the olde ASPD comments section of reviews.... lots of valuable information that could have been used constructively, was lost to many who needed it most.

Another thing that I have come to realize is.... there are some girls who get off on knowing some of the graphic detail being shared.... believe it or not!!

I am not really complaining about the review process.... I just wish there was a bit more "common ground" between the sexes involved. One thing that seems to be missing from the NOLA area hobby in the past few years, has been the friendly, playful, "on-board" interaction between the sexes.... I kinda miss it.

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As one of the Lady&#39;s I&#39;m going to jump in on this on! Spank me if ya don&#39;t like what I say!

I enjoy reading all the details of what a gent writes about a session with me (good or bad)! It helps me understand what I&#39;m doing right or wrong, whatever the case maybe! As for lady&#39;s repling to a review, that should not be allowed. Most or some lady&#39;s can&#39;t handle the truth and will blow up over a wrong comment!

Lady&#39;s and Gents alike should have their space to post where the other can not see what is said! But we are all Adults and should be able to act like it no matter what is said about us good or bad (I know this is not how it works most of the time)! But come on people act your age not your shoe size!

I am usually a quiet Lady but no other Lady has chimed in! So that how I feel about the subject!

Now who would like to get playful as MrGiz put it? Spank me I know I misbehaved!!!

Kisses and more Boys!

Personally I woud like to know what a Gent thinks about our session.
I am still very NEW to the FS GFE thing. I Really want to know what I am doing right or wrong.
That way if I am doing something wrong, I can rectify the problem.
I think I can handle most criticism, unless it is down right nasty !
I want the Gent to have a GOOD time when he is with me and if he did not, I want to know so it will not happen again!

Alexandra

Well....I had several very insightful comments I was gonna make, but then after I real Missy&#39;s response, I started daydreaming about her....and now I forget whay I was gonna say.... I&#39;ll give you your spanking tomorrow, Missy -- you can count on it!

tweetie

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Personally I woud like to know what a Gent thinks about our session.
I am still very NEW to the FS GFE thing. I Really want to know what I am doing right or wrong.
That way if I am doing something wrong, I can rectify the problem.
I think I can handle most criticism, unless it is down right nasty !
I want the Gent to have a GOOD time when he is with me and if he did not, I want to know so it will not happen again!

Alexandra[/b]

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Well....I had several very insightful comments I was gonna make, but then after I real Missy&#39;s response, I started daydreaming about her....and now I forget whay I was gonna say.... I&#39;ll give you your spanking tomorrow, Missy -- you can count on it!

tweetie



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As one of the Lady&#39;s I&#39;m going to jump in on this on! Spank me if ya don&#39;t like what I say!

I enjoy reading all the details of what a gent writes about a session with me (good or bad)! It helps me understand what I&#39;m doing right or wrong, whatever the case maybe! As for lady&#39;s repling to a review, that should not be allowed. Most or some lady&#39;s can&#39;t handle the truth and will blow up over a wrong comment!

Lady&#39;s and Gents alike should have their space to post where the other can not see what is said! But we are all Adults and should be able to act like it no matter what is said about us good or bad (I know this is not how it works most of the time)! But come on people act your age not your shoe size!

I am usually a quiet Lady but no other Lady has chimed in! So that how I feel about the subject!

Now who would like to get playful as MrGiz put it? Spank me I know I misbehaved!!!

Kisses and more Boys![/b]

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Very funny Tweety-bird! Ya know where to find me!

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<span style="color:#000080">… because there are no "hidden BCD" comments... (a futile effort, in my opinion)</span>[/b]

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After thinking about it, I have to agree. Although I do think that providing positive (or negative) feedback to the provider is a good thing, we all know that on occasion it WILL blow up in our faces.





SeaDog

Before ASPD went down, I had to get a review taken down. I contacted a mod and told him what happened (in detail) in our date and asked him to go check the bcd part, since I couldn&#39;t see what he had written bcd about the review.
The mod came back and took down the review as his story did NOT match mine at all. He lied, pure and simple. I saved our conversatons after the date to prove what I was saying.

Now with this in mind, if I had been able to read what he wrote bcd, I would have KNOWN he was telling porkies. But because you HIDE this from us ladies I had to turn 3 times, hop twice, stand on my hands and walk through fire and glasss just to find out if he told the truth or not. That is A JOKE, in itself that us women have to go through that just to make sure that you guys are getting the TRUTH of what happened in the date.

Having to contend with this BS, why should us women even want reviews and the BS that we have to deal with to keep it real for you guys. And showing everyone the reviews will assure that you guys get a true review instead of a review where he knows we can&#39;t see him beating his chest for you guys. BS! Those are not TRUE reviews and you guys know it. If your telling the truth then you have NOTHING to hide. Simple enough, I say.

To be honest being graded is rude of you men to do to us, I think. How would you like it if we rated you? I&#39;m on another board and the men do the reviews in the open and its working very nicely. What is the problem here guys? These other guys are having no problems at all. The women even review the men and we LIKE IT...so do they.

I don&#39;t know what the answer is to this problem but you guys DO NEED to get it together AND be fair to us ladies. Until then I don&#39;t want anymore reivews. I dont&#39; want to have to waste my time trying to make sure that you guys get the truth in a review and I can&#39;t even get the truth from them! The way the reviews are done on aspd, you NEED to find another way.
My 2 cents worth.
June

I say put the whole review in the open. If a lady or anyone in general don&#39;t what they are doing wrong how can they fix it. If as everyone acts like an adult there should be no problems. I know the big word is IF.

If there is something a guy is too scared or uncomfortable saying that happened then he can post in the locker room or Simply say PM me if you have any questions.

The trick is that we as reviewers use the review for what is and tactfully point out the short comings of the appointment.
In return the ladies should except the review for what it is. A personal opinion of the time that reviewer had with that lady.
Just my opinion and ya know what thats good for.

Still trying to catch my my breath.

So June, how come you seem to NOT have a problem with all the ladies only boards out there where guys are discused and reviewed and completely lied on because some crazy-assed provider has an agenda to try to ruin him and his rep.....Guys are talked about on these boards and the guys have absolutely zero ways to combat that because unlike the weak dick guys who share BCD info with ladies in hopes of gaining some favor from her, MOST of the ladies in the ladies areas don&#39;t come back and share what was said about guys in the ladies forums......This works both ways in that guys need to be able to post things without fear of retaliation from an immature provider whose feelings got hurt, and ladies need to be able to post things in ladies only forums and areas where they don&#39;t have to worry about guys getting their feelings hurt and retaliating......It works both ways and at least on ASPD if a lady didn&#39;t want reviews she can have the option to ask for a no review policy, whereas, the guys can&#39;t go to a mod and ask that he NOT be discussed in the ladies areas.....

On another note, I wonder what made you contact a mod about a review that you shouldn&#39;t have been able to read what was said in the review......No need to answer that here because that&#39;s NOT what this thread was about.....But, it does go to illustrate one of my earlier statements about how people link BCD material.....If all ladies and gentlemen in this lifestyle would act their ages and conduct themselves as adults, then there would be less of a need for gender restricted areas......But since we know that that&#39;s NOT the case, then ASPD (and now home2) has restricted access areas just the same as many other escort review boards and I think they should remain as it is......

Thats what I&#39;m talking about BigC.
It seems that the guys JUMP on how did I know something was wrong with the review. Well for one thing, he recommended us both. But in the date with me he did nothing but COMPLAIN about her to me. I should have gotten a BAD review (as far as my choice of a doubles partner to be honest) He plainly showed for all to see that he recommened us both. That was an out and out lie he told.
Because I feel it so important to tell the truth on the reviews I went to a mod and asked him to check it out for me. I told him I had a feeling that he lied on the review bcd but I had no way of knowing for sure. So the mod heard my side, in detail. He went back and checked it out.
Now how SAD is it that I have to tell this story every time to any aspd male member cause they are so scared I saw bcd? All to get you guys the TRUTH. And here again, I have to tell what happened. Gee, thank me for getting the truth to you guys instead of letting a lie stand, and who cares if your lied to? I do!
You guys need to find another way to do the reviews where us ladies don&#39;t have to explain the truth all the time.
For your information I have NOT seen bcd, do NOT WANT TO see bcd. But I sure would like to get a review where I dont&#39; have to go asking a mod if they told the truth or not. THAT IS SAD and doesn&#39;t say much for the way the reviews are done here on aspd. You guys need to do something about that. Give us women a break!
I still can&#39;t believe that no matter how many times I tell this story, the thing you guys seem to be bothered about is how did I know the review was false. Geeeeeze guys, you&#39;d know if a false review was put up of you if things didn&#39;t add up with what you could see of the review, I mean you were THERE right?

As to how I feel about the other ladies on other boards...I&#39;m seeing first hand that it CAN WORK if the ladies are able to SEE the entire review. Funny but no one has argued or had fits yet about it. It keeps the guys telling the truth too. They even like it after giving it a chance. They know the reviews will be truthful and not just a beating of the chests. I&#39;m living it and so far its working. I suggest you try it as well. It also keeps the guys honest with the OTHER guys. Try it before you trash the idea at least. Or try something different.
I would hope that aspd would WANT the board to be fair to EVERYONE not just the guys. I mean really guys, what do you have to hide if your telling the truth? And if you have something negative to say, why not find a NICE way to say it. That way you can be truthful and she can get the input she needs.
You dont&#39; have to call her fat or ugly just say she was not the size I had hoped for, from her pics...or I prefer slimmer or heavier women. There are ways of saying things without pissing someone off. But if you write mean and hurtful things then yes the woman would be mad and hurt. I think the changes need to come from you guys first. Then you&#39;ll see that us ladies will come around too. And you might be shocked to know that us ladies will back you guys with the ladies that dont&#39; do the system right. But you have to give us something to work with first...besides talking about us behind our backs.
Sorry if my bluntness offends, but I thought you&#39;d want input from the women as well. I&#39;m telling the truth as I see it and live it. I think I&#39;ve been around in this buiz long enough to know what I&#39;m talking about.
And for your information I don&#39;t belong to any all woman boards, and I dont post open alerts on the guys. If I have a problem I back channel to my g/f&#39;s. I&#39;ve never been out to get anyone by posting untrue things about them.
Is there a problem with me voicing my thoughts? I can prove what I&#39;ve said.
Oh and btw, that guy never got in trouble or pointed for giving you guys a false review to go by. Funny he&#39;s not been questioned at all as far as I know. But I get the questions...see the PROBLEM with the system here? Not one bloody thank you to me for making sure you guys got the truth instead of lies. I mean you rely on the truth of the reviews to know who you want to see, right? hmmmmm

Thanks, for the input, June. I think you have backed up most, if not all of my original points.

If there&#39;s nothing false or overly-rudely stated.... AND.... the girls cannot post reply commentary, anyway.... what&#39;s the use of the info being hidden? If a guy wants to go off on a rant about a particular girl, and suspend any and all tact in doing so.... we have the Locker Room. The girls have their own space for their own rants, as well.

I never expected to create any changes in the way reviews are posted here... I only wish there was more board interaction between the sexes. The olde system created animosity by secrecy. I thought the current ASPD / Home2 situation might be a good time to discuss the possibility of slight changes.... maybe not.

Giz

I agree with you Giz. ASPD needs to come out of the dark ages and join the world of today.
I&#39;m not against reviews, what I&#39;m against is the way they are done. And your right keeping things hidden from us women is wrong, just wrong. I see no sense in it. By having it set up this way the guys are setting themselves up to be lied to with almost NO safety checks. Most of the women won&#39;t buck the system for fear of being labeled drama queens or trouble makers.
I don&#39;t care what I&#39;m labeled, I&#39;m going to tell the truth, period. I&#39;ve always maintained a high standard in my reviews being truthful and I&#39;ll continue to back that up till the day I retire.
ASPD has the chance to make changes at this time. It would be ashame to waste that chance and go back to a system that really doesnt work very well.
Why be afraid of change is my question?

My policy here on the HOME2 board is to always post the review with comments out in the open for all to see. The only exception is when the provider requests the comments be BCD or I have not been able to contact the provider prior to making the post. I always tell the provider in detail what my comments will be concerning our time together. It&#39;s simply a reflection of what occurred during our date as I see it. If I have a difference of opinion with the lady that can&#39;t be mutually resolved then I don&#39;t post a review. I&#39;ve found that most of our ladies welcome full disclosure and even find it as a form of positive advertising. Here is my latest review as an example. Just my $.02

http://home2.invisionzone.com/index.php?sh...ic=2981&hl=

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I agree with you Giz. ASPD needs to come out of the dark ages and join the world of today.
I&#39;m not against reviews, what I&#39;m against is the way they are done. And your right keeping things hidden from us women is wrong, just wrong. I see no sense in it. By having it set up this way the guys are setting themselves up to be lied to with almost NO safety checks. Most of the women won&#39;t buck the system for fear of being labeled drama queens or trouble makers.
I don&#39;t care what I&#39;m labeled, I&#39;m going to tell the truth, period. I&#39;ve always maintained a high standard in my reviews being truthful and I&#39;ll continue to back that up till the day I retire.
ASPD has the chance to make changes at this time. It would be ashame to waste that chance and go back to a system that really doesnt work very well.
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And I just happen to disagree with both yours and Giz&#39;s assessment that ASPD was in the dark ages.....And you still haven&#39;t answered why it&#39;s ok for the women to have their gender restricted areas and can lie about the men (and I know they do lie on several boards and I&#39;m sure they do it on ASPD and home2 also), but you have this huge disdain for the BCD areas on ASPD.....There are plenty of times when a reviewer has blatantly lied about a session and when he was found out, that review was removed and often the reviewer was either banned or suspended.....Fake reviews were/are considered a serious offense.....Blatant lying about what happened in a review probably wasn&#39;t considered as serious, but it was a serious offense and generally if found out that reviewer lost his own credibility.....See, I just don&#39;t buy the "we need reviews to be out in the open because we want the truth to be told" angle.....Most reviewers are going to tell the truth in a review, and for those who are going to lie, even if you could read the review, you can&#39;t respond to the review thread.....

I also happen to know that there are other major escort review boards that have comments sections that are NOT viewable by the general public and to get the so called "juicy details" you have to either pay for them, or submit reviews that get approved (sound familiar???)......

Gotta run for a minute.....Be back later as I&#39;m sure you and Giz will have further comments.....

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I think that&#39;s a moot point! We all know both males and females have their own, private forums where they can each, say anything they want.... hidden from the opposite sex.

The point of contention is.... the Review Forums are not hidden.... so why should some of the content be? I know... I know.... it&#39;s to protect delicate egos. Well..... okay, I suppose.... but it just seems childish to me!

Giz

On every board that I know of there is a mens and womens section. I don&#39;t participate in the one on aspd except to let the ladies know that I am reference friendly. I am only wondering why there is hidden text, within a "public" forum... such as the Review Forum.
I know we can&#39;t answer back in the reveiw area but being able to read the review, if its a false one and I can prove it why not let me?

"If there&#39;s nothing false or overly-rudely stated.... AND.... the girls cannot post reply commentary, anyway.... what&#39;s the use of the info being hidden? If a guy wants to go off on a rant about a particular girl, and suspend any and all tact in doing so..."

Mr. Giz,

Just to remind you, I had a so/so review about a provider about 7-8 months ago. There was nothing bad in the review but it wasn&#39;t a ringing endorsement. I even admitted that I did not know why it wasn&#39;t as good as most people would expect (she has great reviews everywhere). I not only recommended her but also said that I needed a second visit to see if it was an off day on either of our accounts. The e-mails and PM&#39;s after somebody shared that review with her was ridiculous. I was accused of anything from costing her business to outright being an asshole. And that was where I had a mildly (but not overly) positive review.

Now tell me how this will work if there wasn&#39;t BCD; If I ever have a bad experience, I can do two things; a) say nothing to anyone ,B) tell the truth and deal with the backlash. Needless to say, most of us would choose the option (a) in fear of being outed or having to deal with the drama. At that point, we can all kiss the board good-bye as a forum to honestly share information.

Don&#39;t get me wrong, I believe all communication should be in a respectable manner but I just don&#39;t want to deal with people who might come after me for something they perceive different than I intended.

HH

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I think that&#39;s a moot point! We all know both males and females have their own, private forums where they can each, say anything they want.... hidden from the opposite sex.

The point of contention is.... the Review Forums are not hidden.... so why should some of the content be? I know... I know.... it&#39;s to protect delicate egos. Well..... okay, I suppose.... but it just seems childish to me!

Giz
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And once again I have to disagree with you that the point is not moot because she came out all hell fired up about the guys having a place to post that she can&#39;t see and I merely asked why it was okay for the ladies to have a place like that but it&#39;s not right for the guys to have a place.....But, it&#39;s also a good thing that she didn&#39;t answer the question anyway since it wasn&#39;t on topic with this thread and then I might have had to punish myself for hijacking this thread.....lol

Again, I disagree with your point about it being childish to have BCD comments in the reviews section because that&#39;s just the way things run on each one of the major boards and it&#39;s just a function of life.....None of the other major boards allow total unrestricted access to the comments sections on their reviews and you either have to pay to get the details, or you have to submit approved reviews.....And those review areas are open to the public just the same way that things are done on ASPD.....That&#39;s just the nature of the business.....

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[font="Comic Sans MS"][i][color="#000080"]I wonder what the advantages are, of BCD comments not being public! In all my years of hobbying… I&#39;ve never met a girl who was too shy or sheltered to be offended by positive, graphic details.

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Interesting discussion and I think timely. I wanted to respond to the above as it was in the thread starting post: I have & they are well respected ASPD members. In fact they don&#39;t want reviews at all, much less the intimate details available to anyone. Not good or bad, just their personal preference. Many acknowledge this causes them to miss out on some dates & they are fine with that.

I am strongly against hobbyist reviews! We are paying for discretion. If a guy is a bad apple there area all kinds of private blacklists etc. out there. On the positive side, it already takes place informally thru remarks in various threads like, "xyz, great to see you" or "can&#39;t wait to meet again" -- anyway I think it is a moot point as I don&#39;t see it happening.

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<span style="color:#000080">I don&#39;t believe that charge was ever made... much less, intended. We all know that both sexes have their own "place".... that cannot be denied, or argued!! What "good" did BCD protected comments do for "Hobbiehorse" in his example? THAT is one of the points I was trying to make.... quite apparently.... unsuccessfully.

ONE of the differences on at least ONE of the other MAJOR review sites is.... females can purchase the same, exact VIP Status as the males.... and gain the same exact access to review details.

None of this really matters a great deal.... but in times where many are expounding the virtues of transparency in the New World Order.... we are failing, miserably, in this little wedge of the hobby world, at having the sexes unite. THAT is what I was calling childish!

Giz
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Hmmmm, why stay in the dark, I&#39;m opting for the sunshine. Enjoy yourselves guys!