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Club Reviews - time for improvement?

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A while ago, the owners wanted volunteers to do new reviews of swingers clubs. Has any progress been made?
Just had a look at the reviews, and the current facility in in need of a lot of updating. Firstly, I know of one club - Club Sparx which is listed there, despite having been out of business for over a year now.
The most recent review of the Garden of Eden seems to be from Dec 2004. I'm not sure, but didn't this club burn down between then and now?
Other reviews give clues as to when they were written, and these are often similarly out of date. A Review Date on each review would be much better to gain an idea of how current a review is. Also, some form of filtering out of reviews over (say) 6 months old could also be worth considering.
Finally, some people here seem to be "campaigners" for certain clubs. e.g. "One Particular Cpl" who make regular reviews of Xtasia, Surely it's not the purpose of the Reviews to become an individual swingers Blog is it? A restriction of 1 review per member every 3 months might not be a bad idea.
Just some ideas. What other improvements do people think can be made? If the owners are about, when are the improvements to this feature scheduled to happen?
The only thing I would question is the one reveiw per person/couple per 3 months.
As each visit to a club can reveal a different experience, 3 months might be too long especially if something significant changes - but I get the point about repeatedly reviewing the same club.
Another suggestion, ST3V3 kicked out a Review for Club One2One (or something) for allegations of ladies working at the club "accepting payments" (see http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/76350.html)
I've long been a supporter of reviews of brothels beiing kept out of the Swinging Clubs section, so fully support this action. Can we also have consistency with this rule? There are at least 2 other "clubs" listed which are used as brothels. (ST3V3 - details available upon request)
Maybe splitting the reviews into "Swinging Clubs", "House Parties" and "Brothels" may be a fairer way forward when the Reviews section gets revamped.
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Another suggestion, ST3V3 kicked out a Review for Club One2One (or something) for allegations of ladies working at the club "accepting payments" (see http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/76350.html)
I've long been a supporter of reviews of brothels beiing kept out of the Swinging Clubs section, so fully support this action. Can we also have consistency with this rule? There are at least 2 other "clubs" listed which are used as brothels. (ST3V3 - details available upon request)
Maybe splitting the reviews into "Swinging Clubs", "House Parties" and "Brothels" may be a fairer way forward when the Reviews section gets revamped.

We should all wait for the outcome of the administrators enquirys on tuesday when they resume work before making assumptions.
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Another suggestion, ST3V3 kicked out a Review for Club One2One (or something) for allegations of ladies working at the club "accepting payments" (see http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/76350.html)
I've long been a supporter of reviews of brothels beiing kept out of the Swinging Clubs section, so fully support this action. Can we also have consistency with this rule? There are at least 2 other "clubs" listed which are used as brothels. (ST3V3 - details available upon request)
Maybe splitting the reviews into "Swinging Clubs", "House Parties" and "Brothels" may be a fairer way forward when the Reviews section gets revamped.

All reports we receive are taken seriously and we would like to have more club reviews, recently we changed the review submission so that only members of swinging heaven could submit reviews after it became apparent that club owners and well idiots could submit anything anon. So now we have less reviews but probably more accurate reviews.
I don't believe that a brothel category would be something that fits well here, the clubs section is for swinging clubs only.
ther is a revew on the club site from an id we had 3 yrs ago lol
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What we are looking to do is this
1. Members can vote on each club once to give it a star rating between 1-5 on a few areas like price, venue,etc, an average rating will then be established (like trip advisor).
2. Clubs will then be listed by rating so the best first and so on
3. SH will conduct an official review on each club with a number of points covered (I am putting something together for this).
4. All clubs will need to modify their descriptions to include opening hours, pricing, (and maybe discounts for SH members?)
5. After this has been done perhaps we give an award at the end of the year for the "UKs best swinging club" as voted by SH members
Any other suggestions?
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
That is not a suggestion - thats an Invite, and should be accepted lol
phredd :love: to Sarah
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What we are looking to do is this
1. Members can vote on each club once to give it a star rating between 1-5 on a few areas like price, venue,etc, an average rating will then be established (like trip advisor).
2. Clubs will then be listed by rating so the best first and so on
3. SH will conduct an official review on each club with a number of points covered (I am putting something together for this).
4. All clubs will need to modify their descriptions to include opening hours, pricing, (and maybe discounts for SH members?)
5. After this has been done perhaps we give an award at the end of the year for the "UKs best swinging club" as voted by SH members
Any other suggestions?

Are you going to charge the club for having a listing on SH? confused: :?: :?:
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
Oi!!!! :shock:
What about me???????? :cry:
Mal
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
Oi!!!! :shock:
What about me???????? :cry:
Mal
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u can come with me mal...we will have more fun than sarah and martin lol
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
Oi!!!! :shock:
What about me???????? :cry:
Mal
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u can come with me mal...we will have more fun than sarah and martin lol
Excellent idea - and I wont have to worry about where I put my drinks!!! :twisted:
Mal :wink:
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
Oi!!!! :shock:
What about me???????? :cry:
Mal
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Oh a 3some even better :twisted:
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
Oi!!!! :shock:
What about me???????? :cry:
Mal
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Oh a 3some even better :twisted:
Don't forget Chesty - our very own drinks monitor!!! :twisted:
Martin - you would have to see it to believe it!!! sillyhwoar:
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Any other suggestions?

Want to come clubbing with me Martin?? :twisted:
Oi!!!! :shock:
What about me???????? :cry:
Mal
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Oh a 3some even better :twisted:
Don't forget Chesty - our very own drinks monitor!!! :twisted:
Martin - you would have to see it to believe it!!! sillyhwoar:
u mean the drinks monitors that are in my avitar pic??? :phwoar:
Just to say, the new Chameleons needs to be listed (the one in Newport) we had to place our review on here as it's not possible to review it in the club secttion at the moment.
right so that is now a 4some lol
Martin, oh Martin where are you??
I'd like to be able to see the clubs in order of area rather than "most popular".
It might be the best club in the world ever in the history of everdom... but if it's not nearby it can be a right ball ache to organise getting there.
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The most important thing is that the listings are UP TO DATE ie the Club really is functioning. All the rest is extra.
Would Swinging Heaven's Admin be interested in employing someone to visit all these clubs to review them?..........i would be more than happy to do it for you! wink
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Would Swingheaven's Admin be interested in employing someone to visit all these clubs to review them?..........i would be more than happy to do it for you! wink

So who are you partnering up with? St3v3, Eliott, Martin, Nick? You got a bit of choice there lol
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Would Swingheaven's Admin be interested in employing someone to visit all these clubs to review them?..........i would be more than happy to do it for you! wink

So who are you partnering up with? St3v3, Eliott, Martin, Nick? You got a bit of choice there lol
No need......with a heavy heart my wife has agreed to come along with me.....now thats dedication for you!
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No need......with a heavy heart my wife has agreed to come along with me.....now thats dedication for you!

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And there was me thinking you'd want all four to come along with you!
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No need......with a heavy heart my wife has agreed to come along with me.....now thats dedication for you!

rotflmao :rotflmao:
And there was me thinking you'd want all four to come along with you!
well ok they can come.......but only if their paying!!
If there is a job like that going can I take Noel please??? His fur really does something for me! ;)
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I'd like to be able to see the clubs in order of area rather than "most popular".

I like that idea. I've seen other sites use image maps (of the UK) where you click on a coloured region to see what clubs are reviewed in that area. OK, it's an unoriginal idea, but so is the wheel, but they both work well.
Food for thought perhaps?
BTW - thanks to everyone for making this a constructive thread, and thanks to the Admins for taking note. Look forward to seeing the end product.
They use an image map for the dogging sites though it could possibly be broken down into smaller chunks ... info there needs updating too possibly? Anyhow, think image maps is a good way to go about it and everyone intuitively knows how to use them ...
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well Tramper was in need of a vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!
we reckon a tour of uk clubs would do him the world of good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! biggrin :D
and the reviews would make interesting reading too!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D
Why not get a whole gaggle of SH members do a "UK Tour" of Swinging Clubs? We can then have "Reviews" of the official "SH Judging Panel" (Bags I get to get paid the same as Simon Cowell for my views lol ) The SH management could even sponsor the tour tee shirts and other merchendise. Could be a good promotion opportunity for all concerned.