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| 24 Jun 10, 1:22 PM Mistress_Susannah UK(SE), 7 yrs £   |
I agree with many of your points - mainly that reviews should be taken with a pinch of salt, wherever they appear and should just make up a small part of your research. However, I'm not sure why you think a Mistress is being indiscreet by including post session emails when permission has been given. A review is kind of a post session evaluation.... whether it happens soon after a session or a few days later. I'd never allow any of my submissives to include anything too personal in a review.... therefore if the review is part of an email it's of course snipped for public consumption! I'm also not sure why we should be punished for having literate clients.... one actually asked me to correct a spelling before it went live.
www.mistresssusannah.co.uk Edited 24 Jun 10, 1:23 PM by Mistress_Susannah | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 1:34 PM lisal 9 yrs |
I must admit I'm not sure about this comment It maybe just me but I'd be more likely to take note of a review that is posted independently from the Mistresses website. I'll grant that they are still most probably going to be positive but, from some I've seen, they can be even handed (i.e good review but perhaps a comment about difficult location) On UKM before we introduced posting guidelines we sometimes got a whole mass of one off reviews of a particular domme -all glowing. In some ways it was actually off putting and, in the long run, I don't think was that beneficial to the ladies concerned
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| 24 Jun 10, 1:41 PM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs   |
I get what Arctic Swallow means. If you read feedback on a Mistress' site you can easily tell if it is faked or genuine. You can tell if it was written by the same person because it sounds the same. If you take a cleverly faked review on its own, on a forum like UKM or PDUK, you aren't going to spot it as a fake as easily. Lots of reviews, by different people, of the same Mistress can give you an overall picture that a single review can't. It does make sense. "If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 2:15 PM lisal 9 yrs |
Yes so do I (get what Arctic Swallow means)
It's the independence of a review not on a Mistresses site I was really thinking about. I agree with the fake or genuine comment and get AS's (and your) point about a fuller picture of the domme. I just think it's pretty possible that someone writing a review specifically for a Mistress's site may be less likely to put anything remotely negative But as I said I'm not sure and it is a personal view
ETA Not a big believer in reviews, anyway, wherever they may be
Edited 24 Jun 10, 3:57 PM by lisal | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 3:48 PM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs |
No it won't be negative but who is to assume there is anything negative to say in the first place. As long as people are aware that a review is subjective there shouldn't be an issue either way. As we, all of us, have always said, a review is only one tool in the research kit bag. "If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 4:21 PM lisal 9 yrs |
Aah - Of course I hadn't thought of that one
Edited 24 Jun 10, 4:22 PM by lisal | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 6:47 PM BlueVelvet UK(B), 9 yrs |
I can't remember his name...but a bloke did this a few years ago, (I think he did one first on prostitues) and published a book (on each).....got very mixed reviews I seem to recall. www.VelvetEden.co.uk The fabulous,friendly, BDSM play night! | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 6:59 PM subrugbylad UK(M), 6 yrs |
Thanks for all your comments so far. i do realise that BDSM is so broadranging, but the independent reviews would also briefly describe what they were looking for, so people reading would get a good idea of what specialities each Mistress did. I am pretty sure it is unworkable, and the listed sites were very sparse with reviews. Trust me, I work in an industry where reviews play a huge huge part now, and can be the bane of our lives due to dodgy reviews or competition writing bad reviews, hence the good advice that Mistresses would def be involved in the right of a reply. I just think it would bring the Pro Domme side of things a bit more out in the open and being a little more honest about things, and definitely think it would work in the Mistresses favour over the negatives that could come about with a site like this! Its just worth a discussion me thinks! "insert witty comment here, i cant think of one" | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 7:56 PM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs |
Actually, what is worth more of a discussion is why the clients don't make use of the review system themselves. There seems to be enough demand, and there are certainly enough review sites around (PDUK, UKM, Punternet et al), but for some reason the clients don't want to write a review themselves. We hear horror stories from the clients from time to time on various fora, but will they write and post a factual account, using the review systems in place, bearing in mind that they are also anonymous, so no come back? No, they don't. Why?
"If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness | ||
| 24 Jun 10, 8:26 PM Empress_Martine UK(HA), 2 yrs £      |
This can be useful but it can be open to abuse by those wanting to bad mouth one pro or another.I would be wary of it and set up a google alert when using it,so as to catch negative results out. |
