I joined this forum during the great exodus of the previous board for Bay Area mongering. Overall, I’ve been very happy with the systems in place and thankful for the team here for welcoming this group and keeping things organized.

One thing that I’ve noticed lately though is that the requirements for accessing useful information continues to get stricter. Many threads for example had RA access before of 20 but many of those are moving towards 30 or even 40 now.

While I understand that there is the goal of protecting highly valuable information, I’m just a casual hobbyist. I see a provider once every few months. Getting to RA20 for me was hard enough, but now most of the conversations I previously had access to I no longer have. This is less of a problem on other boards, where once you’re “verified” in general most of the information is available to you.

So I guess the meta discussion is where does this end? If I take a break for a few months, will the baseline RA level be like 50? The baseline RA level seems to be growing so fast. Are these overall levels being monitored and adjusted by the mod team?

Curious to hear your guy’ thoughts.

Pretty much the same for me. Although it kind of works since I'm not exposed to delicious details that can make me spend more $$$.
Wish this site's search can allow me to filter by RA level. It's somewhat annoying that when 80% of the search results gives me "nope you don't have access". Granted, even I only see providers every few months I could have reviewed them but here's the catch. Since I only have access to RA10, that tends to give me limited group of girls who are well reviewed in the past. For me I don't want to roll the dice and TOFTT for the event only happens every few months, I end up seeing popular and safe bet. Oh well not much input from me, my bad.

I like the RA system as per the forum guidelines.

I see a few general reports that don't really even need an RA where the poster decides to RA it at around 30 or over and think why. Imo thats not giving bsck to the community.

I mostly RA 10 mine so if somebody can be bothered to make an account they can read. Also they don't show in google.

As i mentioned I'm talking about them people RA over the forum guidelines. The guidelines i agree with regarding content and privacy or sometimes for privacy might be justified by a higher RA.

Its pretty hard to raise RA, im struggling witth the jump from 10 RA to 20 RA. I suppose this is the great filter to weed out any no good users. The onyl reason i want RA 20 is to access the search function. Pretty much everything is non readable even though they dont contain pictures etc.

I have been on the site for 16 years to get where I am now.  At the beginning I did not punt very much and couldn't read much anyway.   And you just experience stuff and write reviews you will get more RA.  Then you can read more.  It takes time. Rome wasn't built in a day man.  Take it slow.   I still have so many reviews to do that I have not written yet, My RA should be much higher than it is, but I just haven't reported everything.     You have only been here for six months, relax.     Most things are RA 20-40 anyway.

You have not posted a single report and now you sounded like entitled.

Alright I'll hammer down here:

Higher reading levels are usually set by posters, to avoid some information leaked outside this community, you need to earn the karma points BY POSTING REPORTS. Took me years to get to RA 50. Start writing!

mandfbayarea you made 4 reports, build it up you'll get there eventually

sjchen YOU NEVER MADE A SINGLE POSTING WHAT MAKES YOU DESERVE ANY GOODIES

Husk111 All your reports combined made 500 words and that includes titles and templates. One of your report detail is a single sentence. Want me to say more?

To be clear, I’m not saying I deserve access to the more sensitive stuff given that I only have 4 reviews. I get and agree with the give info, get info idea. It is tough though because at the rate, it will probably take me another 6 months or so to get to RA40 and I worry by that time everyone will tag topics with RA80.

I was more concerned of the trend that it seems like RA levels keep rising month by month. I agree overall that most info is RA20 and under. But I’m seeing more and more reviews gravitate towards RA30 and pretty much every mega thread (that discusses non single review topics) have gone to 30-40 minimums.

Let me take a peek at those high RA posts for you...

Just kidding, you're already at RA20, most of them are at 30. You'll be there in no time.
Also your reports are decent. Adding photos of the girl will go a long way.