The Power Moves (TPM) is a leading resource on power dynamics, self-empowerment, and social strategies.

Founded by Lucio Buffalmano, author and expert on power dynamics and social strategies, it offers evidence-based articles, critical reviews, and training programs like Power University.

But what do real readers say about The Power Moves?
This article analyzes hundreds of verified The Power Moves reviews left by our readers. The data was collected between December 2023 and September 2025 with the Hotjar feedback system, anonymized, and analyzed to provide an unfiltered look at what readers say about The Power Moves.

Overall TPM Rating: 4.2/5 Stars

Based on 452 anonymized responses collected via Hotjar from December 2023 to September 2025, The Power Moves earns an average rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars. This score reflects strong satisfaction among readers, with 68% awarding 4 or 5 stars.

• 5 Stars: 58% (262 reviews) – Praised for insightful, practical content.
• 4 Stars: 10% (45 reviews) – Solid value with minor suggestions for enhancements.
• 3 Stars: 12% (54 reviews) – Neutral.
• 2 Stars: 8% (36 reviews) – Criticisms around content presentation or technical issues.
• 1 Star: 12% (55 reviews) – Objections often related to strong reactions to content or site features.

Readers who also added written feedback generally found TPM to be a unique and valuable resource for self-development.

Dataset at a Glance

• Total responses: 452
• Date range: 2023-12-03 → 2025-09-08
• Ratings distribution:
  • 5 stars: 262 (58%)
  • 4 stars: 45 (10%)
  • 3 stars: 54 (12%)
  • 2 stars: 36 (8%)
  • 1 star: 55 (12%)
• Positive (4–5): 307 (68%)
• Neutral (3): 54 (12%)
• Negative (1–2): 91 (20%)
• Top countries represented: United States (124), India (38), Germany (27), United Kingdom (22), Canada (18), Philippines (16), Nigeria (14)

Top Rated & Bottom Rated Pages

We’ve analyzed the pages with the highest and lowest average ratings in our dataset. This feedback is helpful for highlighting what our audience values most and where we can improve.

Top rated:

1. Page: https://thepowermoves.com/local-sexual-marketplaces/
   • Rating: 5/5
   • Number of Responses: 4
   • Breakdown: All 4 reviews at 5 stars
2. Page: https://thepowermoves.com/dictionary-of-power/
   • Rating: 5/5
   • Number of Responses: 2
   • Breakdown: Both reviews at 5 stars
3. Page: https://thepowermoves.com/forum/
   • Rating: 4.8/5
   • Number of Responses: 6
   • Breakdown: 5 reviews at 5 stars, 1 at 4 stars
4. Page: https://thepowermoves.com/three-pillars-of-knowledge/
   • Rating: 4.6/5
   • Number of Responses: 5
   • Breakdown: 4 reviews at 5 stars, 1 at 4 stars

Bottom rated:

1. Page: https://thepowermoves.com/sexual-market-value/
   • Rating: 2/5
   • Number of Responses: 2
   • Breakdown: 1 review at 3 stars, 1 at 1 star
2. Page: https://thepowermoves.com/manipulation/
   • Rating: 2.3/5
   • Number of Responses: 3
   • Breakdown: 1 review at 4 stars, 1 at 2 stars, 1 at 1 star

Our Analysis & Action: We were surprised to see the Dictionary of Power among our top-rated pages, as it has primarily been an unorganized repository.
But readers highly valued this resource. While we always intended to improve it, these reviews provided the evidence needed to prioritize turning it into a more structured and comprehensive resource.

Trend: Improving Over Time

Last 30 days aggregate rating in September 2025

Reviews reveal a strong upward trend: from an average of 3.8/5 in late 2023 to 4.5/5 by mid-2025.
The early dip was primarily caused by technical friction (especially intrusive pop-ups). Once corrected, and as the content library expanded, satisfaction steadily increased.

Qualitative Analysis

Several members left written notes about their experience with The Power Moves.

Readers overwhelmingly rate The Power Moves positively. Common themes include:

• Actionability: Readers consistently praised the concrete, usable tactics.
• Uniqueness: Many highlighted that TPM covers subjects rarely addressed elsewhere, such as manipulation dynamics and advanced social strategies.
• Depth: Several emphasized the deep research-backed analyses.

Positive TPM Reviews

Most high-rated reviews celebrate TPM’s depth, practicality, and unique approach to self-development. Here are some representative examples:

The power moves is mindblowing, I haven’t stopped reading it for 2 days straight – 5 stars, US, Sep 2025

Ive been browsing your blog for the past 2 years and it’s absolute gold mine. Thank you for keeping all this content for free. – 5 stars, India, Feb 2024

The Power Moves offers the best information regarding psychology, self improvement and life effectiveness that I’ve encountered in the interned to date. When I found it I thought it was too good to be true, now, after +5 months with PU and +1 year learning power dynamics I think it’s too good, and it’s true. – 5 stars, Spain, Dec 2024

Critical TPM Reviews

Lower ratings often pointed to technical issues (most of which have since been resolved), requests for more features, or differing views on content. These were valuable for shaping improvements.

Some examples:

“Pop-up in mobile ist glitched” – 1 star, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jul 2025

“Make clips work without having to sign in” – 3 stars, Australia, Feb 2025

“The Adulteress section needs revising. It’s incredibly sexist to use the term UNDERSTANDABLE here…” – 3 stars, United States, May 2025

Among the negative content reviews, most related to sensitive topics such as gender dynamics, mate choice, and relationships.
These disagreements are expected in discussions about complex human behavior, but they provide useful signals for balancing tone in future updates.

🤬 Critical Reviews: Power Dynamics Analysis

Most angry reviews are legit and valuable. They pushed us to improve TPM, and for that, we’re grateful.

That said, TPM is a site about human nature and power dynamics. Anger and strong emotions aren’t just feedback — they’re also social signals.

Let’s start with a “dubious” one:

Him: From reading your page and even email popup it’s clear you’re a bunch of toxic as f*ck people who teach harmful shit to insecure guys. Pathetic

Contextual analysis: the referenced popup appeared after at least 15 minutes of session time — indicating this reader had substantial engagement before reacting.

Sometimes people are drawn to certain type of content to consume privately, while also criticizing in public.
In power dynamics, this can stem from:

• Envy: wanting to learn from the material, but resenting the author’s position of authority
• Status competitions, not wanting empowering information to be widely available to others
• Tricking others into skipping effective content

But it’s also possible that some readers may honestly feel that way. Without knowing someone in person, it’s impossible to tell for sure.

🔎 Raging Review Case Study

This feedback was on a password-protected post that the user couldn’t access:

User: I used your content too a joy and now you can go eff yoursef (expletive)

This shows a taker mindset: consuming freely, but reacting with rage when access is restricted. This entitled approach to social exchanges expects unlimited benefits without reciprocity.

(For context: the protected post was titled “5 Machiavellian Techniques to Sell a House Fast (Unethical!)” — content deliberately not public.)

🔎 Manipulative ‘Reviews’ Dynamics

Several of the harshest negative reviews clustered around posts on mate selection and red flags (e.g., “Signs of Quality Women”).
Several relied on shaming language rather than engaging with the substance. In power dynamics, this is a suppression tactic to:

• Suppress knowledge that could shift leverage in the dating market.
• Discourage mate-quality assessment to maintain the chooser’s power, rather than also competing in being chosen

In both cases, it’s about empowering oneself at others’ expense.

Please note: this isn’t about men vs. women or anyone being “better.”
Some critical responses came from readers who identified as female because many of these posts are addressed primarily to men.

But similar dynamics are at play with men towards women and among different groups (e.g., ‘have vs. have-nots’).

In all cases, it’s about social power moves: controlling the public narrative to gain or retain more power.
At TPM, our belief is that more empowerment for all leads to a better world.

Surveys

Separate feedback forms collected specific insights about The Power Moves.

Here’s a summary of the main findings.

Would you recommend TPM?

We asked readers (N = 126) whether they recommended TPM in the past six months, and invited open-ended comments.
Responses fell into the following range:

• 30% said “yes”
• About half were considering, including first-time users
• The remainder provided a negative response

A few selected quotes:

Yes I always recommend you.

I hooked the website a few time on Reddit

One I don’t know how I can contact you Lucio to say thank you (…) This is the site that changes your life is my recommendation to friends I have talked about

And some readers chose a more humorous approach to voice their criticism, for example, one said “recommend to stay away,” and another, “Take a look at this (sic) mysogynistic drivel“.

🙋‍♂️Lucio’s personal note: Thank you so much to anyone who mentioned us! 🙏🏼

Lucio:
I give The Power Moves my full and best effort, but it’s challenging for us to reach the people who may need us the most. So any mention or share is incredibly valuable for TPM.

And since I’ve dedicated my life to this, it truly means a lot to me.
For that, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you 🙏🏼

Follow up 1: What did you say?

The second survey question asked respondents what they shared in their recommendations. Here are some representative answers:

better than anything I have read on how to handle the dark triad types.

“Trust me, read it”

I have highly recommended this sight to my close family as a novel new place that breaks down social interactions in a way I have never seen before, and that I can finally understand.

When they noticed some of the changes i have had, I told them about The Power Moves and how it has helped me to become higher value.

Yes I always do with the prime: best resource on social skills / power dynamics

A minority of negative responses, sometimes employed a humorous or sarcastic tone:

This site is extremely sexist, please avoid it

Yes, I told them to bust the pimp spank (Ed.: referring to an edgy ‘technique’ in the article)

Overall, readers overwhelmingly spoke positively.

Follow-up 2: What Makes Us Unique

Looking to find out what TPM readers would list as our USP, we lastly asked, ‘What do you think sets us apart from the competitors?’.

The answer largely pointed to the quality of the content.

Some selected replies:

Backed by research and you can tell that you know what you are talking about.

Lucio’s background/credentials. The forums, sheer volume of reviews, leading to recommendations and discovering new content we never would otherwise

The quality of your articles

The systematic way in which you present the knowledge, as well as the regular reference to scientific literature

No room for dogmatism here, which is good. Everything is critically analyzed and then incorporated.

A psychoanalytic-inclined reader replied: ‘Asking questions that are just thinly disguised attempts to obtain narcissistic validation’.

Overall, readers recognized and appreciated TPM’s three-pillars method, ensuring quality by only writing we can combine science, experience, and critical thinking.

What’s Stopping You From Joining Power University?

A second survey was more commercially focused and revealed a consistent theme: price was the most common hurdle to joining Power University.

Several responses highlighted ways to improve product descriptions, while a few flagged onboarding issues we’re addressing step by step. Our priority has long been content quality, sometimes at the expense of smoother onboarding.

Some interesting responses include:

im a pathetic broke fuck

Is your curriculum open to heterosexual women?

I need to research this program first and see reviews from external sources.

Where do you use these knowledges, if you have online business, and you do not have nothing to do with people. Basically you want to stay away from people?

Our replies to similar queries:

‘Broke loser’: Most TPM readers are smart, ambitious, and strategic. Those qualities last a lifetime. With the right mindset and tools, ‘broke’ is temporary.

‘Is it for women?’: While many principles apply universally, since upgrade 9.0 we’ve focused Power University primarily on men.

‘Using PU to avoid socialization‘: Just like learning to drive doesn’t force you to own or drive a car, learning how to navigate people doesn’t force you to socialize. The skills empower you to engage more effectively—goal-based, faster, and limited to exactly what you need, if that’s your choice.

Conclusion

Across 452 reviews collected over almost two years, reviews of The Power Moves are positive.

Readers find it helpful and unique, and providing real-life benefits.

The trend also shows clear improvement over time as we fixed technical concerns and content expanded.

Not every review was glowing—nor should it be, for a site that tackles complex and sometimes controversial topics.
We believe that having zero strong criticism would be a sign of being too bland and shying away from reality. A reality that, although beautiful, also includes competition, diverging interests, and, at times, can also be darker than we wish it.

But the balance of evidence shows that most readers consider TPM to be unique, practical, and transformative in the field of self-development.

Transparency note: All reviews quoted here were collected via Hotjar, anonymized, and unedited except for typos or clarity. A downloadable file of the full dataset is available for verification upon request.

Methodology note: We analyzed N = 452 anonymized Hotjar responses collected 2023-12-03 → 2025-09-08. Quantitative metrics (average rating, distribution, trends) were calculated programmatically and cross-checked manually to reduce bias. All quoted material is verbatim except in some cases fixing typos; responses were anonymized prior to analysis and sensitive information in the pictures has been removed.