Rule Number 1 of Fight Club..

[Bear669]

So much for friendly advice. Seems likely you are a 'troll'

Lots pf hobbyists are quite busy. They just dont throw their handles around to get some extras. So the ladies dont know them by their handles.

I will digress as I have heard it mentioned that you like to review the girls in pink or the girls that are pink or whatever the heck they are. And they all know you as well.

..previously banned who has crawled back with a new handle.

As is typical of the low lifes you cannot put a coherent, relevant thought together, and you just lash out with your mindless envy of your betters.

Go join the 'anti-TERB'. You will fit in.

 

[UltraMan]

I haven't read everyone's comment on this yet, but I can certainly say that I don't bring up TERB unless she does, and even then, I don't just bust out with who I am. I've never been to a TERB function and I'm actually surprised anyone would go to one ...SP or member. I'm further surprised anyone on TERB would arrange to meet other members of TERB to talk about their experiences, or that they'd want to. I'm even further surprised that anyone would want to mention TERB to an SP. I can however, understand that an SP would want to know who you are on TERB, and if you're an active reviewer so she can compare sessions to reviews, and likely for a little validation when a reviewer says she's hot, or that there was something she could improve.

In the capacity that reviews go both ways and TERB is a valuable resource for members and SPs to track performance and make good sessions through research, and I use it before almost any new SP booking, I'm a TERB member. Beyond that, I can't think of a single reason to want to spend time with anyone else who uses it, for any reason. And as for the relationship TERB has with my sessions or the outcome, they're UNrelated.

So basically, my point of view is that this is an online resource to do research about SPs, but that the encounter has nothing to do with TERB so why bring it up. I don't carry TERB around with me in my daily life, or in my encounters because it's not part of my life - it's only a tool of my hobby.

Know what I mean?

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Rinse and repeat

We see a variation of this thread every few months and will continue to see it for as long as TERB exists. I think that intelligent TERB members know how to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, and learn to figure out what's what from the various reviewers. Some reviewers are overly effusive (or negative) and what they post has to be taken with a grain of salt. Some are understated, but if you read carefully, you know exactly what the deal is. It's up to the reader to figure it out for his/herself. If you can't, then sorry, "You must be <this tall> to ride this ride..."

That being said, there are a few things along these lines that I see in reviews that do bother me:

• "I saw <insert name> on <insert date/time>."
  [*]"She's from a town called <insert name> in the Eastern region of Outer Mongolia..."
  [*]"She's currently doing her Masters in <insert name> at the University of <insert name>..."
  [*]"We talked about <insert specific details that have no bearing on a review> before, between and after SOGs..."
  [*]"We did the <insert complicated sexual position> and transitioned to the <insert postion 2 here>, followed by <insert specific position here>..."

There is no good reason to post that kind of information unless one is trying to massage one's own ego OR let the agency and SP know exactly who you are. And if that's the case, then in my opinion it IS fair game for others to ask questions...

Even though I am single, I choose not to discuss TERB for simple reasons of discretion. I use a "hobby phone" and don't give specific details about myself to agencies or SPs. I have never posted any information on TERB that could link my handle to my hobby name/persona, which is also similar, but different from my real-life persona (as far as my name, where I live, what I do, what I talk about, etc.)

That's my choice.

What others choose to do is their business. However, if you post details that make it abundantly clear who you are, then you do open yourself up to questions. That's the nature of the internet and discussion boards, particularly when there is money involved.

I think some of the posters from both sides are taking this a bit too personally and seriously. But I think those that choose to say or infer that "it's cool to talk about TERB" should also grow some thicker skin when challenged on that point. Just my two cents...

 

[Captain Fantastic]

I'm actually not in the camp that believes FunnyFace (for example - or anyone else for that matter - life's too short for that) is a shill, but it has been proven time and again that it's easy to be a "shill by volume."

Formula: Post a lot of reviews about a lot of well-reviewed women in a relatively short period of time to build up credibility. Innocuously talk about TERB during appointments. Later on, post occasional reviews on "hidden gem" to give them "the rub" and a bump in bookings - perhaps with their knowledge and encouragement. Casually let the agencies (moreso) or indys (less common) know who you are - to get preferential treatment. This is done in all industries, not just the escort business. This is just a smaller community.

It's been done before, is (I'm sure) being done now and will continue to be done so long as there are anonymous review boards for anything.

It's all a bit of a grey area. There is no overt attempt to get better services or prices, but the unsaid/unwritten inference can be taken as "this guy is a big baller and should be treated better than the average Joe." This may or may not be true, but I hope that those on the receiving end of the cries of "shill!" understand what the mentality of the skeptics or those who get the short end of the mileage scale is. Because calling "shill!" is easier than believing the seemingly unbelievable or taking a good, hard look in the mirror.

<Stepping down off soapbox>

 

[SkyRider]

the reader would determine that either the writer could not distinguish between mediocre, good, very good and great, or did not understand the value of only using superlatives when they are really deserved.

When I was marking exam papers as a part time teaching assistant in university, I was mandated to grade using a "bell curve". I thought that was unfair. Now in corporate life, we are also mandated to appraise our staff using a "bell curve". I still think this is unfair. Even if we sincerely believe that all our staff are "great" we are forced by the "bell curve" to rate 90% of them as less than "great" all the down to "unacceptable".

Maybe some members of the Board are suggesting that escorts be rated using a "bell curve" and "great" cannot exceed 10% of the population, regardless of actual performance?

 

[Heatwaves76]

Well it think that's it.

I am out of this whole conversation and any future thread about this stuff. This is not why I use TERB. I use it as research plain and simple and trust myself to see SPs once I am convinced that I know what to expect and that my personal criteria will likely be met, and of course there are no guarantees and I accept that too. If am unsure of a girl I have 2 choices - take the plunge or wait for more reviews to come in. This is like any other anonymous forum and I am finding the threads that have popped here an enormous waste of time, and I am pretty sure I am not alone. From now on I am sticking to reading reviews relevant info on SPs and posting my experiences, there are enough political arenas in the real world as it is.

Just my 2 cents

 

[GDLLover]

Seems there are only 2 issues being discussed:

A) Revealing terb handles to the ladies. Most agree that handles should be kept confidential. This is ideal but lets get real, the ladies are very intuative and your kidding yourself if you think they can't figure it out. On top of this even Gen admitted that only one person in her experience has tried to use the leverage of terb for services (BTW she didn't improve the services). If someone was to be successful in leveraging why would the lady want to see them again making them do something their not comfortable with.

B) Shilling, its been discussed to death and looks like those crying shill are not active reviewers and therefore don't have first hand knowledge. Many here do agree however that there are different opinions and hence take the reviews with a grain of salt.

Offsite organizing, it was stated a few times that this was only innocent observations of inconsistencies within some reviews. Well to bring to light we all know there was a shakeup a while ago and some long term members left disgruntled. Surprise, surprise, the conversations have been going on other boards as I have witnessed them. So you guys that never review or post all of a sudden come on here in a witch hunt. Why waste our time, if you don't like being here so go back to the hole you crawled out from. If you really want to argue the reviews, 'check your gun at the bar sport' and give us some reviews of your experiences.

 

[genintoronto]

Seems there are only 2 issues being discussed:

And what seems to be missing from this conversation is an acknowledgement that Terb doesn't mean the same and isn't used the same by all people.

For some, it is exclusively a pooning tool: read, write, research reviews.

But for many others, Terb is an underground community they share with the SPs they see, with its own version of a teevee reality show.

I think it is delusional to believe that people who interact online won't want to talk about it when meeting face-to-face.

 

[Brill]

..... a bunch of you got caught asking for freebies and threatening... are you really that cheap that you cant afford to pay the going rates? Well if that is the case, perhaps its time you found another hobby thats less expensive.

Are you referring to someone on this thread, Sheik?

 

[duang]

reviews

It's like anything you research that has been reviewed: reviewers have different personalities and biases. You need to sift through the data and reach your own conclusions.

If there's a large amount of data I disregard the overly giddy reviews [brown nosers or just lost their cherry] and the overly harsh reviews [work for other agencies or just grumpy]. Then you try to get a trend from the balanced reviews in the middle.

I have to say though that I am bothered by the type of person who comes on here with multiple handles to plug his review site and the women who advertise on it over and over again. It makes it easy to take those reviews with a large grain of salt but becomes tiresome very quickly.

Otherwise everyone is entitled to their opinion and it's worth what you paid for it. People do things differently and for different reasons. Vive la difference [or something like that]. Live and let live.

D.

 

[BallzDeep]

Let's be honest here, when you read someone say that they lost track of how many orgasms the sp had because she had so many, are you going to believe the review?

 

[GDLLover]

Let's be honest here, when you read someone say that they lost track of how many orgasms the sp had because she had so many, are you going to believe the review?

Does this mean we have to show up at a session with a list of their services and as we go fill out the checklist?

 

[genintoronto]

Let's be honest here, when you read someone say that they lost track of how many orgasms the sp had because she had so many, are you going to believe the review?

You should really sign up for my Critical Reading Skills lesson.

You just need to be able to read between the lines, be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality, and keep in mind writer's perspective when reading a review. For instance, and based on the example you gave above:

"She came 3 times from DATY, and then begged me to fuck her hard, and came again twice in doggy" translate into "She is talented at making you feel like the best lover she's had and at anticipating your desires. She made me feel like a king."

Whether or not the SP came 5 times is irrelevant, both to the reviewer/client and for those who read the review: what matters is that she's good enough at her job that he believed it, at least until he came.

 

[BallzDeep]

You should really sign up for my Critical Reading Skills lesson.

You just need to be able to read between the lines, be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality, and keep in mind writer's perspective when reading a review. For instance, and based on the example you gave above:

"She came 3 times from DATY, and then begged me to fuck her hard, and came again twice in doggy" translate into "She is talented at making you feel like the best lover she's had and at anticipating your desires. She made me feel like a king."

Whether or not the SP came 5 times is irrelevant, both to the reviewer/client and for those who read the review: what matters is that she's good enough at her job that he believed it, at least until he came.

You still don't get it, I wish I could explain it to you in French, but I can't speak it, and weren't you the one he was 'supposedly' in love with.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

You should really sign up for my Critical Reading Skills lesson.

You just need to be able to read between the lines, be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality, and keep in mind writer's perspective when reading a review.

Since when was TERB confused with a university classroom?

For instance, and based on the example you gave above: "She came 3 times from DATY, and then begged me to fuck her hard, and came again twice in doggy" translate into "She is talented at making you feel like the best lover she's had and at anticipating your desires. She made me feel like a king."

To be honest, it could also translate out to mean:

"I have an enormous ego and a distorted view of reality and will overcompensate by posting fallacies that make me seem like some sort of Superman, when in reality I am nothing of the sort."

or

"I'm trying to suck up to the ladies and agencies with shilly tendancies by posting things that simply aren't true in an attempt to put me in their good graces."

Whether or not the SP came 5 times is irrelevant, both to the reviewer/client and for those who read the review: what matters is that she's good enough at her job that he believed it, at least until he came.

Gen, you know as well as I that it is relevant for those that take things at face value and do believe everything they see, hear or read. That is why it's always somewhat dangerous when reviewers build up a false sense of expectations in those that don't know them/their writing style. Not everyone understands artistic licence or exaggeration in an attempt at flattery or even out-and-out shilling. And that's one of the reasons why there are so many misfits that hate this place and the people who are on it - they can't separate the fantasy from the reality. That plus the fact that their lives are somewhat sad...

Just sayin'...

BallzDeep may be myopic and even wrong in his mission to tear down FunnyFace (ed. note: I can't believe I just wrote that!), but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a general point buried in his rhetoric regarding the over-the-top reviewing and potential for abuse of TERB handle "power."

 

[genintoronto]

Gen, you know as well as I that it is relevant for those that take things at face value and do believe everything they see, hear or read. That is why it's always somewhat dangerous when reviewers build up a false sense of expectations in those that don't know them/their writing style. Not everyone understands artistic licence or exaggeration in an attempt at flattery or even out-and-out shilling. And that's one of the reasons why there are so many misfits that hate this place and the people who are on it - they can't separate the fantasy from the reality. That plus the fact that their lives are somewhat sad...

Just sayin'...

BallzDeep may be myopic and even wrong in his mission to tear down FunnyFace (ed. note: I can't believe I just wrote that!), but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a general point buried in his rhetoric regarding the over-the-top reviewing and potential for abuse of TERB handle "power."

As usual Capt'n, I tend to agree with you here.

But this is also why it's been said over and over again here that guys should do their homework by reading more than only one review, and look for patterns and (in)consistencies in reviews, both in terms of the reviewers and the reviewed.

 

[Bear669]

TYpical Comments from Candidate for #1 Scum

You still don't get it, I wish I could explain it to you in French, but I can't speak it....

HEY MODS!

Time to get rid of this racist piece of shit.

 

[GDLLover]

HEY MODS!

Time to get rid of this racist piece of shit.

Funny you mention that there's already a discussion that BD is going to get bounced from terb out in cyberspace. BTW what do trolls eat.

I'm sure we'll all be on their bitch list too.

 

[moviefan]

But for many others, Terb is an underground community they share with the SPs they see, with its own version of a teevee reality show.

I think it is delusional to believe that people who interact online won't want to talk about it when meeting face-to-face.

There's no doubt that's true.

But I'm not sure the guys who are using TERB as their own form of lavalife, in order to meet new friends, potential girlfriends, whatever ... should necessarily be writing reviews. I think the guys who write reviews should maintain a level of impartiality.

Think about it. Some guy meets a woman that he really wants to date, maybe even someday make his wife.

Would you trust that guy to write an "impartial" and "unbiased" review about that woman on an Internet site that he knows the woman reads?

Of course not.

 

[BallzDeep]

Since when was TERB confused with a university classroom?


To be honest, it could also translate out to mean:

"I have an enormous ego and a distorted view of reality and will overcompensate by posting fallacies that make me seem like some sort of Superman, when in reality I am nothing of the sort."

or

"I'm trying to suck up to the ladies and agencies with shilly tendancies by posting things that simply aren't true in an attempt to put me in their good graces."


Gen, you know as well as I that it is relevant for those that take things at face value and do believe everything they see, hear or read. That is why it's always somewhat dangerous when reviewers build up a false sense of expectations in those that don't know them/their writing style. Not everyone understands artistic licence or exaggeration in an attempt at flattery or even out-and-out shilling. And that's one of the reasons why there are so many misfits that hate this place and the people who are on it - they can't separate the fantasy from the reality. That plus the fact that their lives are somewhat sad...

Just sayin'...

BallzDeep may be myopic and even wrong in his mission to tear down FunnyFace (ed. note: I can't believe I just wrote that!), but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a general point buried in his rhetoric regarding the over-the-top reviewing and potential for abuse of TERB handle "power."

Great points Herotodus, you should be very knowledgable on the topic of false reviews.