Very interesting read here! I love to hear feedback like this from different perspectives. We come from a different angle, and that's the one of sifting through a lot of surfer emails on our reviews who complain opposite ways on the exact same reviews. We've gotten complaints that we didn't mention how hardcore a site was (that it was too much), but we get 10x more emails about people who are upset we didn't mention that there was no hardcore available at all. Some surfers assume way too much, so we try to spell it out for them from time to time. I've liiterally written a pro of "love the softcore glamour material" and a con of "may be too softcore for some" for the same site because they're both true. When reviewing a softcore photography site, I'll base my entertaining score on other softcore photography sites. Same goes with a foot fetish site. But there's a line that has to be drawn since we are also giving it an overall score compared to sites in all genres, and it has to fit in. A site producing one video a month that's only been open for six months charging twice as much as the other guy (no matter how great, wild, exclusive, fun the videos are) just doesn't offer as much as most everyone else, no matter what kind of content it is. You'll notice we have no score for hardcore or softcore though, it's all just words to let people know more about the site.
As far as price goes, it's a pretty objective score, and accounts for 10 pts out of 100 which I don't feel is too much; I actually feel other sites don't take it into account enough. All things being equal, if we can get the exact same content for $15 instead of $30 a month, the cheaper one definitely deserves a higher score. The score change from a $10/mo site to a $30/mo site is only three points, which shouldn't make or break a site in the end. When you're getting into $35-$40 a month site or higher (which is above average from what we see), I'll definitely mention it as a negative. That doesn't mean you don't have the site or content to back it up, it just means when you look at price alone, you charge more than most
Keep the comments coming though, they're great. I just wanted to throw my opinion into the matter as someone who works on that specific site day in and day out,