New Version of MER

[Lycees]

Firstly I want to say that I am very happy MER was started and is still going strong. It is also very pleasing that the owners should seek the opinions of users on how to improve it. There are just a couple of points I wanted to mention.

I have to agree with Tampa Yankee that very short reviews are virtually useless. We don't need porn stories but we do need to have just a bit of background information.

The real reason for this post though is to query the use of the "Featured Persons" section on the home page.

I accept that many escorts will only visit MER once to put up a profile and rarely visit after that. The fact that they have not logged in for a year or more does not necessarily indicate they are out of business. However, quite a few escorts (especially the European ones) are out of business and this could have been checked before they were featured. There is a good example today (6/27) - "tomescortparis". Click on his profile and the phone number shows a line of 0's, then click through to his website and you go to a parking domain. I am not sure whether or not this escort is still working but that is not the point - on the basis of the information shown, he is definitely not worth featuring!

The same has happened with a number of London escorts - you click through to an expired Gaydar profile. There are other European escorts being featured who seem to have been registered by agencies that have closed down as well.

I realise that keeping a check on all listed escorts is impossible and we have to accept that many escorts listed will have left the business or changed their contact details. All I am really suggesting is that before an escort profile is featured on the front page, a quick check is done to ensure that, as a minimum requirement, any website listed is still valid.

[TampaYankee]

Firstly I want to say that I am very happy MER was started and is still going strong. It is also very pleasing that the owners should seek the opinions of users on how to improve it. There are just a couple of points I wanted to mention.

I have to agree with Tampa Yankee that very short reviews are virtually useless. We don't need porn stories but we do need to have just a bit of background information.

The real reason for this post though is to query the use of the "Featured Persons" section on the home page.

I accept that many escorts will only visit MER once to put up a profile and rarely visit after that. The fact that they have not logged in for a year or more does not necessarily indicate they are out of business. However, quite a few escorts (especially the European ones) are out of business and this could have been checked before they were featured. There is a good example today (6/27) - "tomescortparis". Click on his profile and the phone number shows a line of 0's, then click through to his website and you go to a parking domain. I am not sure whether or not this escort is still working but that is not the point - on the basis of the information shown, he is definitely not worth featuring!

The same has happened with a number of London escorts - you click through to an expired Gaydar profile. There are other European escorts being featured who seem to have been registered by agencies that have closed down as well.

I realise that keeping a check on all listed escorts is impossible and we have to accept that many escorts listed will have left the business or changed their contact details. All I am really suggesting is that before an escort profile is featured on the front page, a quick check is done to ensure that, as a minimum requirement, any website listed is still valid.

Lycees,

Thanks for highlighting that problem at this time. I am aware that a number of escorts fall out of the business without informing us. Since site inception I had been looking forward to implementing an automatic process to validate escort emails on a periodic basis to determine both dead email addresses and a laspsed time since last email response. However, that enahncement was always on the To Do list waiting its turn for attention. The site rebuild is a good time to make sure that gets implemented.

It is also a good time to enhance the featured persons selection process. Presently the selection is done on the fly selecting each days replacements as replacements are made. The capacity to plan and queue featured persons ahead would facilitate verifying the status of each selection ahead. Good point to raise at this time. Thanks.

[Guest JamesWilson]

I accept that many escorts will only visit MER once to put up a profile and rarely visit after that. The fact that they have not logged in for a year or more does not necessarily indicate they are out of business.

Might it be worthwhile to require escorts to login and update their profile from time to time... say, every 6 months? If they don't, an e-mail could be sent to them asking them to update their profile, and if they don't do so their profiles could be flagged with a notice saying that MER has lost touch with this escort and is not sure if they are still in business. Eventually, the inactive profiles could be weeded out.

MER provides escorts with free profiles... the least we escorts can do is make sure that our profiles are accurate and up to date.

[AdamSmith]

What is the purpose of an escort review? Is it to provide the escort with nice notices of support or is it to inform potential clients about what they can/should expect from the escort?

This is to reiterate the value of maintaining some minimum standard of reporting the sexual content of a session.

I say this after being moved to irritation by yet another effectively sexless review published today on Daddy's site:

http://www.daddysreviews.com/newest.php?wh...esar&page=0

When I saw from the sidebar listing that today's reviews included one of Caesar Mancini, I was pleased. I saw him a couple of years ago, had a good though not extraordinary time, and concluded that may have been at least partly because it was our first meeting, etc. He seems to have a devoted following, so something is going very right for a number of people. What could it be?

Well, the reviewer carefully revealed nothing that would enlighten me: "Caesar and Raul were both generous with their attention to my needs as well as taking my cues for doing things to each other while I savored the sight. Knowing each of them as well as I do, we had a lot of laughs at each other’s expense over individual habits and methods. So, it was intensely sexual with everyone swapping positions and techniques and communicating in every way."

What habits and methods? Which positions and techniques? "Every way"?

Useless to me.

[AdamSmith]

Useless to me.

And the beat goes on. Today Daddy posted a review of Jonathan Lowe/Las Vegas that had only this to say about the down and dirty: The one on one contact I will leave to your imagination but will share with you that jon was a pure joy to behold and to hold.

I'll stop now, before making myself any more of a target for the ASPCDH.*

*American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dead Horses

[TampaYankee]

This is to reiterate the value of maintaining some minimum standard of reporting the sexual content of a session.

I say this after being moved to irritation by yet another effectively sexless review published today on Daddy's site:

http://www.daddysreviews.com/newest.php?wh...esar&page=0

Well, the reviewer carefully revealed nothing that would enlighten me: "Caesar and Raul were both generous with their attention to my needs as well as taking my cues for doing things to each other while I savored the sight. Knowing each of them as well as I do, we had a lot of laughs at each other’s expense over individual habits and methods. So, it was intensely sexual with everyone swapping positions and techniques and communicating in every way."

What habits and methods? Which positions and techniques? "Every way"?

Useless to me.

Thanks for the supportive input, Adam. I appreciate it. Most of the feedback I get comes from clients who had rejected reviews or their escorts. Occasionally I get positive feedback about the reviews but it usually comes as an aside from others writing about another issue.

The present review content policy was put in place with the prospecting client in mind, not the client looking to feather a relationship with an escort, although a good informative review can accomplish that objective as well.

With so little positive feedback, at times I feel that I may be doing members and the site a disservice by imposing content standards on reviews. In the end it is all about giving the members what they want. Those that speak up ultimately get what they want. Others will get what they sit back and settle for.

[AdamSmith]

The present review content policy was put in place with the prospecting client in mind, not the client looking to feather a relationship with an escort, although a good informative review can accomplish that objective as well.

With so little positive feedback, at times I feel that I may be doing members and the site a disservice by imposing content standards on reviews. In the end it is all about giving the members what they want. Those that speak up ultimately get what they want. Others will get what they sit back and settle for.

This wheel will continue to squeak for all it's worth in favor of physical detail in reviews.

Maybe this is the place to think through some clients' feeling that private details should remain private.

I couldn't agree more. But in the transaction between escort and client, you could consider there are really four identities present, not just two. My last review reported in some detail what Andre did to and with AdamSmith. Where I cut off the detail and faded to white was at the point of noting, in addition to cocks and asses, the time spent sunk into each other's heads and lives.

That is where the public personas of Andre and AdamSmith give way to the personal interactions of two private individuals. That (without reopening the whole symposium on managing the balance of fantasy and reality when hiring) is legitimately no one's business but ours.

But, when composing a public performance review of a professional sex worker you enjoyed, it seems to me to be an actual disservice to that person not to provide enough detail about his physical performance to let other prospective clients form a judgment about whether they would also enjoy sex with the person.

[Guest jack]

That is but your opinion. Personally, I have no interest in your sexual fantasies, desires and psychological issues...nor those of anyone else posting here. Nothing personal. I don't visit here to "get off". I skip over detail such as yours. What I am after doesn't include a sideshow. That is but my opinion, yet equally valid and meaningful as yours. When the final decision-maker says, "thanks for your support", it seems he means "thanks for reinforcing what I already believe". Do as you wish as it truly isn't important. Just know some of us don't give the time of day to the "efforts" expended by others in describing their wants, needs and expressions of what they believe may have happened with some escort.

[AdamSmith]

That is but your opinion. Personally, I have no interest in your sexual fantasies, desires and psychological issues...nor those of anyone else posting here. Nothing personal. I don't visit here to "get off". I skip over detail such as yours. What I am after doesn't include a sideshow. That is but my opinion, yet equally valid and meaningful as yours. When the final decision-maker says, "thanks for your support", it seems he means "thanks for reinforcing what I already believe". Do as you wish as it truly isn't important. Just know some of us don't give the time of day to the "efforts" expended by others in describing their wants, needs and expressions of what they believe may have happened with some escort.

Respectfully noted.

What, in that case, do you look for in a review?

Or are you saying you find no value in reviews, regardless of content?

[Guest JamesWilson]

Personally, I have no interest in your sexual fantasies, desires and psychological issues...nor those of anyone else posting here. Nothing personal. I don't visit here to "get off". I skip over detail such as yours. What I am after doesn't include a sideshow....

I could be wrong, Jack, but I don't think we are talking in this thread about a client's "sexual fantasies, desires and psychological issues". I think we are talking about how much detail a client should be required to include in his review of an actual encounter with an escort.

From my perspective as an escort, I am in favour of requiring clients to provide a certain amount of detail in their review regarding what happened during a "date"... after all, that IS the raison d'etre for this site! It doesn't have to be a novel, complete with a detailed blow-by-blow (sorry!) account of who did what/when/where/how-many-times/why to whom, but it should be more than "Man, I had a great time!"

One of the reasons that I decided to create a profile on MER was that I saw how hard the site administrators were trying to make this a place where escorts and clients could exchange accurate, and relevant, information about who they were, what they were looking for and/or willing to provide, and perhaps most important, who was or was not living up to their end of the deal.

By taking the review aspect of this site so seriously, I believe that TY and crew are helping to take the discussion of erotic services in the gay community to a higher level. I think they should be applauded for their herculean (and sometimes solomonian) efforts!

My $0.02 Canadian! ($0.01982 American) ;-)

[Guest BostonGuy]

TY,

First, it's nice to be using those initials again, for the first time in quite some time. I thought it might be time for BG to rise from the dead, even if briefly. You'll be happy to know that I came here first, before checking in at Daddy's or ATKOL (if that place is even still running... have to check that next).

You'll probably recall that I've never been a fan of the review process. I feel that way for a number of reasons, which really aren't particularly germane or important here. However, I did find the reviews published at HB's site and at Daddy's and at MER useful in one regard: recent activity with an escort, as evidenced in a review, meant that the person was still in business. Additional business details (time spent together, price, location, etc.) were helpful in deciding if I was interested in contacting the escort at all.

I virtually always skip the narrative. It's not of particular interest to me and I almost always would read the narrative only if it became the subject of some controversy in the Message Center. Consequently, reviews that had no particular meat in the body (pun intended) of the review were and are nonetheless useful to me -- and, I suspect, to others. Even fake reviews that were reported and listed were useful because it would lead one to certain beliefs about the escort. A long string of suspicious reviews from first-time reviewers was useful.

Further, over time, one would understand the tastes of some reviewers. If a reviewer simply said "he was great, use your imagination", that might seem like useless information. However, if Mark Antony wrote those words, one would know right off the bat a great deal about the escort, their personality, their honesty, etc. Once a particular reviewers interests became known, their signature on a review was sometimes worth more than all of the text itself.

If I were running a review site, I'd accept and publish all reviews, with the sole exception of those that I knew were fraudulent or somehow dangerous. If I was suspicious of a review, then I'd probably find a way to make that known, but otherwise I'd let everyone read the reviews for themselves and draw their own conclusions.

I'm happy to see that MER is still up and going. I hope that the same is true of you.

Cheers!

BG

[TampaYankee]

BG,

Welcome back. It's been a long time. I have missed you even on an occasional basis. In fact, I was just thinking of you a few days ago about how long it has been. I hope all has been well. I keep goin' myself -- a few more aches and pains, a little crankier with age.

We are glad to have all input and yes, I recall that you are not a fan of reviews. I believe that was the catalyst for thinking about you as this thread was growing. Good to see you get some value from them.

Eventually we will try to appease everyone, if that is possible, with a separate feedback section.

Much of our layout and requirements for reviews came from my experience and frustations with HooBoy' reviews. I used them heavily in the early years but eventually as they grew in number without much in the way of a content standard it became too frustrating for me to plow through so many content-free reviews in search of solid information. That frustration and a few other issues with the reviews just got me fed up.

I totally weaned myself away from the reviews, essentially cold turkey. I chose instead to rely on my own instincts, communication talents and friends recommendations. I would not have had the courage to do that as a newbie but a little experience goes to one's head. It worked out well.

Not much has changed with regard to my opinion. It would be uninspiring for me to work 7/365 to put together a review library that I would have no pride in and no desire to use. However, the client feedback section will permit any member to post any experience that does not violate site personal information, abuse, or stalking policies.

Good to hear from you and thanks for your input. You and it are always welcome.

TY

[Guest BostonGuy]

TY,

Thanks! :-)

I think a feedback section is a brilliant idea, especially if one would be able to peruse the feedback in a couple of different ways -- by escort, by author, etc.

And, yes, things are well on this end. Some things have changed but I still believe at the beginning of each day that it's going to be a great day and am lucky enough for it often to be the case. I'll try to check in a bit more often. I miss all the old names and faces.

BG

[Guest EurythmicThrust]

Wow- most of my suggestions have been covered already...to throw in a newbie's perspective on this site, here's my .04 :

Client feedback section a good idea- I was wondering what the MER policy was of writing an "update" of an escort that I've written a review about...would that be a newly written review or a client feedback issue?

In my opinion, both the reply format in the forums (the one I am using right now!) and the message center need to be junked and replaced with SOMETHING that is more user friendly and manageable! My computer went haywire when i used "insert topic link" from the quick access box to the right, and fonts and characters sometimes come across as computer code! This has happened on more than one computer, btw. I think anything you guys upgrade with will be better.

Using the internal mail or "message center" is a chore also- too many click-throughs and "locked" positions. Also, there have been times on here wher eother MER members didnt realize i had sent them mail, same with me with them sending mail to me, hence we missed meeting up because we werent aware ther ewas mail waiting for us in our MER message centers- We have since used email outside of this site.

Please institute the ablilty to "select and right click on our mouse" when copying and pasting tect from a Word document to the narrative section of a review...not all of us are keyboard shortcut intuitive..

Townie mentioned in an earlier post...when i click on the profile of a featured person or escort of the day, itseems i have to go through a few pages before i get to the ACTUAL profile. If we can see profile pic and name, and click on it to take us directly to the escort stat page, that would be perfect.

The biggest gripe i have about this or the "other" site is ancient of dead profiles! Some great suggestions have been made, which TY seems to be putting at the top of the TO-DO list. Potentially helpful suggestion: Besides email verification, perhaps some kind of computer code that say...after 6 months, if the excort has at least not logged in to show that he is still in business, a little sticker/symbol can go on the profile saying something like "MIA"...if after another say...3 months the profile can be deleted as INACTIVE. That would save much frustration my my part of not seeing a hot escort in the "Top 10 Escorts of the Day", clicking with hot anticipation on said profile, and discovering to my great deflated disappointment that said escort hasnt logged on since 2007!!!!!

Things that are GREAT with the site, and yall should be compliemtned: Visually, i personally LOVE the front page layout, and the escorts stat card layout: easy on the eyes color scheme, good fonts, great selection of INFORMATION in the stat card. The home page same thing, and love the column on the left and the right...with Featured Persons in the middle along with any site annoucements. And of course, unlike the other site, you have numorous pictures on the profiles, not just the singular one.

Something that no one has brought up that might be a hot potato: Has there been given any serious thought of charging escorts even a nominal membership fee to post their ad here? I only bring it up becuase then one could see which escorts are serious enough to actually pay the fee...like over on that boyrenting site...

Hope this post helps in developing the upgraded version of MER. I've personally enjoyed my experience here so far, and thank TY and OZ for what they have created for the rest of us!

[TampaYankee]

I was wondering what the MER policy was of writing an "update" of an escort that I've written a review about...would that be a newly written review or a client feedback issue?

The usual policy is one review per escort per reviewer per year. More frequent more-of-the-same reviews by the same reviewer don't add significant independent information to justfiy inclusion in the library. The year interval recognizes that there is some value in knowing that the escort is still around and still getting the job done. It indicates reliability over time for the escort.

The exception is if a gross difference in the nature of the reported experience warrants updating the community about that changed performance. One example might be that an escort has gone downhill due to drugs or maybe a theft occured on a subsequent occasion. Of course the reports have to be vetted.

There has been one example of a follow-up review that I recall from KYTOP. The escort was unable to meet the agreed upon expectations at the first meeting. He promised to make it up which he did eventually. Reviews of both meetings were posted.

In my opinion, both the reply format in the forums (the one I am using right now!) and the message center need to be junked and replaced with SOMETHING that is more user friendly and manageable!

The problem is that there isn't all that much out there that is this good. We much preferred dcforums. It was user friendly but not provider friendly. It had to be abandoned due to the developer dropping product support. We searched for alternatives and this was the best that met our requirements. We may take another look around for new arrivals but anything would have to dovetail with our reqs and database. You just cannot dump the previous content on the floor.

My computer went haywire when i used "insert topic link" from the quick access box to the right, and fonts and characters sometimes come across as computer code! This has happened on more than one computer, btw. I think anything you guys upgrade with will be better.

Except for email and messaging I seldom have any problems with IPB. My secret: no running in the forums. I crawl. I believe in the KISS philosophy. No fancy techniques for me-- beginner here, all the way.

Using the internal mail or "message center" is a chore also- too many click-throughs and "locked" positions. Also, there have been times on here wher eother MER members didnt realize i had sent them mail, same with me with them sending mail to me, hence we missed meeting up because we werent aware ther ewas mail waiting for us in our MER message centers- We have since used email outside of this site.

I mentioned that function is screwed up. We tried to integrate the site messages with the board messages. Major mistake. Hopefully we can upgrade our version of IPB and return to separate site and forum functions. It is never a good idea to modify someone else's software unless they are perched on your shoulder. That takes money.

Please institute the ablilty to "select and right click on our mouse" when copying and pasting tect from a Word document to the narrative section of a review...not all of us are keyboard shortcut intuitive..

I tried it without any problem. I did not complete the review gut i did copy text from Word to the text window using the right-click method. Unless something occurs when the review is uploaded I can't see a problem.

Townie mentioned in an earlier post...when i click on the profile of a featured person or escort of the day, itseems i have to go through a few pages before i get to the ACTUAL profile. If we can see profile pic and name, and click on it to take us directly to the escort stat page, that would be perfect.

This is a basic site design feature. One that is common to almost all sites.

This site was created primarily for client shoppers seeking escorts. That most often involves searching who is available in a specfic geographic location. That function returns an index of escorts. This is a standard architecture for organizing data for presentation.

One inovation at MER is that this index is more than a list of names. It contains a thumbnail, and certain relevant information of interest to help the client decide which escorts he wants to view in detail. This is a much more efficient process than using a simple name index and having to open each review for a pic, date of last review and escort stats and preferences. Thus the index list is a primary organizational structure in presenting data, whether it is a page consisting of one entry, or featured person entries or a city-list of entries.

This architecture is not the best for snatching a quick peek of the detials for some eyecandy pic or for a fantasy on the other side of the country. It is difficult to make one architecture satisfy both requirements efficiently. That maybe compounded by a javascript pop up implementation for profiles, I'm not sure.

I will ask the programmers for ideas but i'm doubtful that a reliable and efficient (not too complex) architecture can be devised to handle both missions in a overall satisfactory manner. Maybe abandoning the javascript aspects might facilitate a solution.

It may come down to changing the site mission from escort search to eyecandy viewing. But that brings new complaints. Maybe the programmers have a rabbit in their hat? I will ask.

The biggest gripe i have about this or the "other" site is ancient of dead profiles! Some great suggestions have been made, which TY seems to be putting at the top of the TO-DO list. Potentially helpful suggestion: Besides email verification, perhaps some kind of computer code that say...after 6 months, if the excort has at least not logged in to show that he is still in business, a little sticker/symbol can go on the profile saying something like "MIA"...if after another say...3 months the profile can be deleted as INACTIVE. That would save much frustration my my part of not seeing a hot escort in the "Top 10 Escorts of the Day", clicking with hot anticipation on said profile, and discovering to my great deflated disappointment that said escort hasnt logged on since 2007!!!!!

The index annotation is a good idea. However, it can mislead you much of the time. Some escorts especially, rentboy.com types, register once and leave it on auto pilot. They have been in business for years. scatter ads around the internet and don't even remember all of the sites until a hit jogs their memory. The contact info usually remains good as they are long term stable providers.

Something that no one has brought up that might be a hot potato: Has there been given any serious thought of charging escorts even a nominal membership fee to post their ad here? I only bring it up becuase then one could see which escorts are serious enough to actually pay the fee...like over on that boyrenting site...

Nice idea and an easy way to keep listings current but we never seriously considered it. Bottom line: conflict of interest for any unbiased review site. You cannot have an unbiased escort review site and charge escorts for participation. They are not going to pay and take bad or mixed reviews. If they are the income stream the site owners have to balance the reviews against the income stream.

Escort-pay-listing-sites (you know who they are) give escorts the ability to remove unfavorable reviews on a periodic interval. The number of reviews permitted to be scrubbed depend on the subscription plan. It is a nice feature to upsell subscriptions

Our main mission was and remains to create and sustain a truthful unbiased review site that provides a level playing field for escorts and clients where all legitimate reviews with useful content were collected and made available to the hiring community. Charging for escort participation is inconsistent with that mission.

Even a benign charge like a dollar a month is self defeating. A lot of guys dont have credit cards. Part of the 'charm' of this site is we attract newbies who dont know if they are really commited long term. That causes turn over and dead wood but it also presents some unique hiring opportunities that pay sites cant offer. Other guys just wont bother with the $1/mo credit charge. While i wish this latter option was viable I believe we have to rely on maintaining closer contact with the escorts through emailing and maybe phone.

Thanks for the ideas and the nice words. Much appreciated.

[Guest JamesWilson]

A thought...

I notice at the bottom of the forums page there is a space that shows which members have been active in the last 15 minutes.

I wonder if you might want to lengthen that time frame. Whenever I check, there is usually no more than 2 or 3 members listed (along with the ubiquitous google... can you get rid of that?).

Daddy's has a similar function, but the default time period is 60 minutes of past activity. When I check, I usually see anywhere from 10-20 people listed. This could give (and reinforce) the impression that not as much is going on at MER. If you lengthened the time period on MER (say, to 60 minutes), it might help increase the popularity of the site by showing that there are actually more guys stopping by.

I know this may seem a bit silly, but you know the whole perception vs reality thing...

[Guest EurythmicThrust]

Hey TY, glad i could contribute with some suggestions.

I did experience a mild rush of tech-rash on some of your responses (index annotation took me a few minutes to decipher!), but overall i see where your coming from in your replies.

I still think an MIA on an escorts profile after a period of time is quite useful- saw a hottie in the Featured Persons today, yet he hasnt loggin in since 2006!! Now that's overly expired, IMO.

Also, forgot to mention that as others have suggested, some of the forum topics could probably be cut loose due to inactivity- my observation is that most of the topics past the halfway point get no traffic and i have rarely ever ventured into those areas myself.

[TampaYankee]

A thought...

I notice at the bottom of the forums page there is a space that shows which members have been active in the last 15 minutes.

I wonder if you might want to lengthen that time frame. Whenever I check, there is usually no more than 2 or 3 members listed (along with the ubiquitous google... can you get rid of that?).

Good idea. I'll look into that.

I have no problem with google hanging around. Google is good.

[TampaYankee]

I still think an MIA on an escorts profile after a period of time is quite useful- saw a hottie in the Featured Persons today, yet he hasnt loggin in since 2006!! Now that's overly expired, IMO.

Maybe I'm confused you. I think that is a good idea. I just cautioned against relying on that as a foolproof indicator of who is active.

Also, forgot to mention that as others have suggested, some of the forum topics could probably be cut loose due to inactivity- my observation is that most of the topics past the halfway point get no traffic and i have rarely ever ventured into those areas myself.

I will confer with Oz but I'm thinking of cutting it waaaaaay back. Think of one Anything Goes forum (within forum policy) and two travel forums. Just an idea as of yet. That should ease the burden on the eyes.

[BiBottomBoy]

Maybe I'm confused you. I think that is a good idea. I just cautioned against relying on that as a foolproof indicator of who is active.

I will confer with Oz but I'm thinking of cutting it waaaaaay back. Think of one Anything Goes forum (within forum policy) and two travel forums. Just an idea as of yet. That should ease the burden on the eyes.

There are only 15 forums. Is that really that much of a strain on the eyes? Maybe it would be better to try to make the inactive forums more active rather than simply cutting down options for people.

As an American in Europe, I'm glad theirs a EU section - so I don't have to slog through news about South American escorts, for example. Also, I like that stuff is broken down in such a way that I can avoid forums that are not likely to have posts that interest me.

It cant' possible eat up too much bandwidth to have 15 forums and it takes all of five seconds to read the forum titles.

[TotallyOz]

It cant' possible eat up too much bandwidth to have 15 forums and it takes all of five seconds to read the forum titles.

It is not the bandwidth, we are just trying to make things more user friendly for all.

[Lucky]

Too many forums= too much clutter.

[TownsendPLocke]

Too many forums= too much clutter.

While I do agree with my friend Lucky(very nice to see you posting here) to a point-I would actually love to see a politics and religion forum.

A recent prolific(and very welcome addition IMO)has been posting many political topics in the PUB.and he is not alone.

This is in dirrect disregard to the directions in the PUB's header about no politics and no religion.

Of course the fact that this sites owner posts political stuff in the forum really does not give the moderators much power in directing the posts to another forum.

While I can appriciate someone wanting to express their views on Politics and religion I do not really come to this website to read about that sort of thing-and the topics that make this site special are being pushed aside by these posts.Thus diluting the site and making it of less interest to those who come here for discussion of subjects which are NOT being discussed in other sites.

So please establish a politics and religion forum,direct all posts on these subjects there,I will ignore them completely and every one will be happy!

[BiBottomBoy]

I can see the advantage of a special religious and political forum.

I started posting in the general forum because my first day here there were political posts there and it seemed the thing to do.

That said, I am a gentleman and I'd hate to think that I'd bothered anyone with my own shortcomings.

While I do agree with my friend Lucky(very nice to see you posting here) to a point-I would actually love to see a politics and religion forum.

A recent prolific(and very welcome addition IMO)has been posting many political topics in the PUB.and he is not alone.

This is in dirrect disregard to the directions in the PUB's header about no politics and no religion.

Of course the fact that this sites owner posts political stuff in the forum really does not give the moderators much power in directing the posts to another forum.

While I can appriciate someone wanting to express their views on Politics and religion I do not really come to this website to read about that sort of thing-and the topics that make this site special are being pushed aside by these posts.Thus diluting the site and making it of less interest to those who come here for discussion of subjects which are NOT being discussed in other sites.

So please establish a politics and religion forum,direct all posts on these subjects there,I will ignore them completely and every one will be happy!

[beetwo]

We are working on a revamp of the site. It will be our first major revamp since we started the site. We want to make it as user friendly as possible and give you as many new features as we can. So, what do we need to add? How can we make the site better for you? What features would you like to see? We would greatly appreciate any input possible. Thanks.

I would like to see the escorts age appear on thier mini-profile that shows up before you get the prompt to go to thier main page profile. thanks