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Old 12-12-2009, 08:41 AM  
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Again thanks for the positive comments!

To the Doc and many others, The review site situation has become a mess both user based reviews or some private reviewers review. If you strictly rely on review sites before buying something to eat, one would starve to death. What I mean by this is, if you ever tried to look up reviews to restaurants, one guy says it’s great the other says it’s terrible and the end user cannot make a decision. The truth is both of the comments may be truth but so many things is a personal taste. The sites featuring stars (3 ½ stars out of 5) again just confusion.

It’s like mainstream movie reviews, pick a movie you like and look up reviews, you’ll see that tons of people will say it was boring and bad etc. Same goes if you look up hotels to stay in etc. User comments should be called “ConfUser comments”. In addition as the FTC recently revealed (no surprise there) that many of the user comments at least the positive ones they investigated where bullshit created by the company owners themselves. (And if you see some of the negative restaurant reviews, its obvious that the 5000 word detailed negative review was left by the competition).

So the only way to review an adult site and be as fair as possible, is to show the user exactly what’s up and let them make a decision. That’s why there is no star ratings or score ratings on the site or user comments, because if you show someone exactly what’s up, there is no need for anyone else’s input or personal score.

The goal of this site is not to BS the surfer and make a quick buck, the goal is simple “build trust”, and by telling them upfront what to expect they feel confident whipping out their card, you take away that fear they might have of joining because of a bad prior experience or because of something they heard or read somewhere.

See many here feel that by telling a surfer about a hidden checkbox or that a site will bomb you with emails within 2 weeks of joining, it will make one not join, but that is FALSE. It will actually create joins, the surfer now knows what to do, he knows not to use his main email address etc. Right now in this economy the last thing you want is someone being “not sure” about a potential purchase, the result will be “no purchase”. (500+ emails is screwed up, imagine if the guy joined using his companies email account).

It’s a time when people are more careful with their money, by now every surfer has heard 5000 online scam stories from friends or from the news, if you show them the truth, the results will be very positive.

As far as reading over watching, well there is a market for both, and with people getting lazier by the day more will prefer to watch, and sometimes readers turn into watchers. So many people who would once read how to guides for Photoshop etc, now will first try to see a video, same goes with electronic product reviews, if you know about cnet that is your first stop. If this will apply to adult site reviews I don’t know, the surfer feedback so far has been EXTREMLY positive. We use wowza streaming and that makes it easier for the surfer to skip thru the review (you can do it with many other solutions other than wowza too).

The goal is simple, be honest with the surfer, don’t confuse them, work with website owners to make sure you are being 100% fair, and help site owners get signups they would otherwise not get.
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