No guy likes a fake review, except maybe the guy who wrote it. If it's fake and negative, he might miss out on some good fun, and if it's fake and positive he might waste his $, his time, his blue pills, and the one chance a month he risks away from the wife.
Mostly, there are simple warning signs that pop up when a review is false. Being guys, we like to compete, show are inteli -- entilig-- inelijen -- smart brains by being the first to see those signs
(women are impressed by smart brains, write?
) and point them out.
Unfortunately, many of those signs are also common signs of a "new guy", and ironically, being a new guy is one of the signs that a review is fake. This means that sometimes, but probably not as often as this thread implies, someone cries DUCK! too soon.
I'm pretty sure only mods are issued duck hunting licenses, and everyone else is poaching on the King's land,
but there's not much that can be done. It's kind of like my dog when we're out wal
SQUIRREL! Yea, kind of like that.
My first review, many years ago, was not very good. The replies went on for two and a half pages, and the comments were 50-50 on my being a pimp, or a girl.
I got over it ... last week.
PM me and I'll give you my therapist's number.
Call it hazing, initiation, harsh lessons on sentence structure, weeding out the weak, or think of it as a rule where you have to wear the squirrel (duck?) suit for your first review, as a way to show you're not taking it all too seriously.
White Knights are not scary. Black Knights are mostly only Black Knights in their own mind, Mods are pretty cool around the Dallas forum, and it's not hard to write a quality review even if you don't type out every sticky detail.
The bottom line is, some guys just don't like standing up in front of the class. It's been that way since kindergarten, and because they are adults now, it's not polite to make them.