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A table of users with more than 8 reviews written in a running year

UserReviewsStatus
Matthew456713Banned
Milkshake727212Active
asidphreak12Active
DelicateE11Active
Luigi8811Active
nails33711Active
ThundaWunda10Active
carolinehernandez01310Banned
Treninator10Active
Trinitykiller6910Banned
junecorr10Active
TStark110Active
Senshi4710Active
Roastbeast869Active
1waytickettogains9Active
SuperBrish9Active
CRACKLIND9Active
TestingInProgress9Active
Tat2man9Active
Dkoon2119Banned
bgonz1749Active
thomas339Active
miggymig9Active
MEXVOL9Active
Goodfella11189Active
selfster199Active
BFG's picture

There are some interesting suggestions here for sure.

wanted's picture

I wonder why guys with less than 7 karma can thumbs up or down. They need to have alittle karma first cause apparently spme cant handle the responsibility to do things right

KMC's picture

It is like the participation trophy, in kids sports.
People sometimes need to be told they suck

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IndianaBRICKIE's picture

Single white male here, 31 years of age, some women have said I resemble a second cousin of Nicolas cage not to toot my own horn or anything. Just been real tense lately and looking for a release. Got a long dick and eat ass. Hmu

Edit: ermm.. think I misunderstood the title. Wrong forum. Carry on

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wanted's picture

I think its clear he as addiction to being a whore

Greg's picture

If you all want to rediscuss the limits, I'm open to suggestions.

Many years ago... (gather close children as I tell you a tale of a time that happened long, long ago, before promos).

Excessive reviews were skewing the ranking system. On the back end, BFG set a policy where votes drop after 6 months. On the front end all who were members at the time had a voice on how to limit reviews to prevent rouge members pumping a source.

eRoids is not about cruising and unhealthy choices.

Looking at short and long cycles, plus time off for proper PCT, the question was, how many cycles can safely be done each year? Two, three? four really short cycles? So, let's say four and double that.

Eight reviews per year. That should cover the cycles and have plenty more for one off's that a source might not carry such as PCT gear, HGH, men's health meds. That is (or was) a very generous allotment to help keep our review process from being overly manipulated.

I'm old and may not remember so well but that's what I recall as being the limit. It may surprise you, but we don't have written SOPs in the back office or tucked away in the eRoids van's glove box. As time passes and fewer of us are around from those days, I find myself putting to print, the oral tradition lest it be lost forever.

Enter promos. Should they matter? If promos were done the way intended, you still have the same number of cycles per year. Review count should be basically the same. There was a considerable amount of review leeway already built in. Ok, (members did not have much or any input on this), If the reviews were mostly paid for, mostly solid, and a "one off" case can be made for some of them, why not grace someone with one or two "over limit" reviews. I.e., Ten.

Now you have a backstory from which to build. What say you all? What should the review limit be and why? We can increase the count or decrease it. I'm willing to comply with whatever the member consensus is.

IrishMack's picture

My opinion? limited free promos per member. When you have members here putting themselves on every promo and every one of their reviews is those freebies that shows the abuse. No more must have karma of 10 or below. no more new members joining promos. Although they sure would find a way around that with reviewing fake orders. Its a pretty steep curve to try and overcome to be fair and strict at the same time.

Keep it the same but every member that goes over gets a harsher penalty. blacklist avatar along with the appropriate karma reduction. In the short term/long it could be mod taxing to have to police this rule. Then again we have members like @shred777 that has a fkn bloodhound's nose at sniffing the shit out.

Makwa's picture

Shred is definitely a bloodhound tracking them down.

Makwa's picture

Here is another thought. How about setting a scale for the number of reviews a person can do based upon their review Karma or could just go with overall karma. For example:

0-5 Review Karma = 1 review
6-10 Review Karma = 2 reviews
11-15 Review Karma = 3 reviews
etc.

OR

5-25 karma = 2 reviews
26-50 karma = 4 reviews
51-75 Karma = 6 reviews
76-100 Karma = 8 reviews
101+ Karma = 10 reviews
200+ karma = 12
1000+, Guro or pro tag = unlimited

Obviously, the numbers can be played with, but I think basing number of reviews on karma gives some incentive to be active on the site. Would keep alot of these new accounts from just coming on here to promo whore until no end. I hate to say it, but I put little trust into reviews I see from brand new members reviewing a promo or from a 7-year-old sleeper account with their only activity being a promo review. I put much more credit into a review i see from members with higher karma and members that are active on the site. However much you may dislike Karma; it does have its place.

I also think some sort of code could be built into the site by @BFG so you wouldn't even be able to write more reviews until you reached the next karma limit. Would save a lot of time and effort for everyone and @Greg trying to keep track of peoples review count.

press1's picture

This is a great idea, it definitely should be related to overall activity and input on the site. There is no reason why someone who gives zero input and time into the site an ability to do 8 promo's in a year. Karma is always related to time spent on here and interaction with members plus knowledge, don't get me wrong I have seen members with A+ knowledge on only 200 points but generally the reason is because they don't invest much time on here or they purely put their knowledge into their sources SI page and not the site in general.

Makwa's picture

What I think should ideally happen is that if you write out a well detailed review is that it should be upvoted and enough karma should be obtained pretty much on your reviews knocking you into the next tier without devoting your life to eroids. Four well-articulated reviews could probably get 40+ total karma from them. Look at the well written reviews, albeit few and far between, and they get significantly, at least they better be, more karma than the 3 sentence GTG reviews. Those are just arbitrary tiers I put in for discussion's sake which will hopefully get more discussion. I would also think as you rank up in review tiers that your reviews gain more credibility. Could almost implement a new tag based on reviews, Tier 1 reviewer, Tier 2 Reviewer, etc.

Makwa's picture

Unfortunately I am negging more than I am upvoting. It is obvious they don't even read the window that pops up when you go to write a review. Even the people who have been around for awhile are half-assing it alot.

press1's picture

Another good idea - Gives more weight to the review.

Halsey's picture

I like where your going with this, aslong as karma whoring is kept in check. Basically, once they reach their limit they can wear a tag or be locked out.

@BFG. @Greg.
Also, how about everyone wearing a tag on how many reviews they have in a rolling year? Can't really hide that from anyone.

KMC's picture

I can see where you're going with this and I don't disagree, but we would probably be trading promo whores for karma whores with a promo whore bent. Maybe an "active time on site" equation would work better. Active being a minimum of 3 post per month each on separate days, totaling a minimum 25 post a year and 8 active months/year to count as an active year. Obviously the number values could be different. If it could even be written in to a program.

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wanted's picture

To bad it cant be more like voting.
The fake reviews are soo bad lately that they bring the community down with guys looking for a free handout
And you cant trust them.
But some sources to blame also. And this stupid owes a review tag. If they don’t deserve the review why should it be given
Its like justvgive them one even if they dont deserve it. Its wierd

Greg's picture

If you paid for gear, or the promo/order is over six months old you do not owe a review. If that's the case get GB to remove your tag. If you owe a promo review as part of the promo understanding and you think he did poorly, give him a critical review.

wanted's picture

I was given 2 but i added 3 more at crap high prices to the order. I just dont think i should have that stupid tag
Cause i used 1 bottle and will never openthe other bottles just gona toss them

press1's picture

It would be interesting to see what the Sources say about this and what they would like to see it at, you could put this question up in the private sources member area. They are ultimately more important than the members in terms of this discussion - they foot the bills for the gear together with the labs they represent in the promo's, and their subs fee's are a key part of everything too. I am never too sure what their view is on this topic Smile

Greg's picture

It has been repeatedly. You've got the site upside down Members at the top, sources at the bottom. They are not important, members banding together in the review process has leveled the playing field. Sources cannot be here and selective scam, sell bunk, have poor customer service, tell you to fuck off if you piss them off. Members are in control.

BFG at first didn't collect a dime. He then wrestled with the idea of becoming a paid for site (members pay). Ultimately, with member input, he decided that sources can pay to interact with members on this site. Members can still add a sources website which may never be claimed by the source, (I.e., no paid interaction.) In other words, sources can be reviewed whether they like it or not, or whether they participate or not.

press1's picture

So you don't think the Sources are the most important part of the site then?

You hate promo's together with the people that enter them so your view is hardly going to reflect the majority of members is it.

Greg's picture

No, sources are not the most important part of the site. Quality members and honest reviews are. Source interaction came later as eRoids grew in popularity.

Source FAQs

Before you read anything else, make sure you understand that although you are welcome to stay and communicate with our users, eroids.com was not built for you. You – a source, do not have any rights here. You do not get to make demands. Your expectations are not important to us.

https://www.eroids.com/src-rules

press1's picture

Okay, fair enough. I did not realise that sources had statements like this written in their rules on the other side of the coin. Most of us do not see that side. My personal opinion though is that I feel that the sources are more important than us and I think they should be, we as members are ten a penny and ultimately we do rely on these guys sticking their neck on the line every time they send a parcel to us. I know they are making money out of us all but I am still very appreciative of what they do.

Greg's picture

...but I am still very appreciative of what they do.

Sure you are... now.

eRoids and the power of its collective market has leveled the playing field. We not only put a light on trustworthy sources, but by example may have created a few as well.

This whole "promo whore" review witch hunt is eRoids culture trying to protect each other and reliable sources from being defrauded and taken advantage of. Protecting your own is not a bad thing.

Makwa's picture

I think one of the big issues for the number of reviews is the type of compounds being reviewed. If someone is pumping out a dozen reviews on the basics like test, deca, EQ, tren, adrol. Something is fishy unless it is a twelve month perma cycle. You can only run so many cycles/yr using your standard compounds. Now in the example I posted below running a bunch of compounds from different sources during a prep, the reviews could add up pretty quickly.

The other tricky bit here is whether or not it is a promo or something they actually bought. If all the reviews are just coming from promos it should be alot less since I think this gaming the system.

In all practicality, if someone is rating more than 10 sources a year, that is probably excessive. You don't need that many sources to find quality gear and are probably just source hopping to get free gear on promos and watering down the review and rating system.

Greg's picture

Your example is extreme. I find it unlikely that a source wouldn't be selling several of those "one off's " peptide source, HGH source, PCT source, AAS source. There is no requirement from eRoids to review. Obviously, it's encouraged but there must be a balance; people were gaming the rankings by reviewing small orders and not cycles.

Makwa's picture

Yeah, it is extreme, just going with the list there if I wanted to consolidate items from sources I could get by with 8 sources that I am comfortable with for those items. I could easily come up with separate sources that I am comfortable using for all of those items, too. Always good to have backup sources for items also.

Now using those 8 sources and let's say I wanted to try a couple different brands of GH while off cycle or testing out a couple different source's men's health items I could realistically be pushing 12 or more reviews.

Now let's say I run another cycle with same sources, but just 6 months later, My old review rankings have dropped off, would it now be appropriate to review again. Then I would be going way over 10 reviews.

I may be an extreme example and I don't think you want to make the norm to fit an extreme example.

KMC's picture

Above 10 reviews and members would be running out of fingers.

Just sayin.

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TRTdude's picture

The last 3 victims have all the same profile pic??
Dude is on a spree.

KMC's picture

Just to be clear (as I understand it): 8 is the limit, at 9, you get to hold the member's arms behind their back while the Mod(s) wack his or her pecker to their (the Mod(s) ) satisfaction.

It use to be at 10 the member (or the member's member so to speak) was disciplined.
If there is a lower threshold for repeat offenders, it is yet to be publicized.

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Makwa's picture

I always thought it was 10. Over that and you got spanked. Now we are down to 8. What next?

KMC's picture

What next?

7 ????

Actually, I think they were getting spanked at 10, now they are getting spanked at 9, you have to admit
there were several people who kept dancing up to the line and every time 1 of their reviews would time out, within 48 hours would post a replacement review. Greg also said "Understanding there are always exceptions to the rule, I reserve the right to look at contributing factors .....", I can't speak for Greg, but I would think one contributing factor could be a Pro tag or a known competitor.

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