When in reality, the provider is in the hospital for her appendix (just an example) and no, she hasn’t felt well enough to hop on the boards all week.

These forums have really gotten out of hand, with nasty gossip that has NOTHING to do with a provider’s quality of service, yet it still hurts her career.
What are these hobbyists getting out of this anyway??

In the last 4 years, I’ve come to be really not too fond of hobbyists or boards.

Everything in your story makes me cringe at some of the stupid things hobbyists do.. and I’m not going to lie.. I have see the things you have posted on my hobby forum… but it isn’t looked kindly on,

1) “who is the best provider” and “who has the best butt/boobs” are horrible and usually looked down on by many of the community where I am at and the author usually ends up abandoning the thread.

2) Review… That is a tricky one as TER (theeroticreview) is completely like that.. conflated sexual encounters that likely never happened the way the hobbyist said..
On my board that I like to hang on, Reviews are only given if the girl requests it, or there was a generally bad experience.. Sometimes it can create drama in a he said she said scenario…
My reviews if I write one never talk about sex or the acts we performed or even intimate details about your genitals…. sorry, I find those tacky.. (which is why I stopped doing TER stuff)
What I do write about is how you made me feel and that you are recommended (or not recommended).. and that’s it.
3) Based on this post of yours, I feel that you are jaded and really look down on hobbyists like me.
I can see why you might have been banned from your hobby board… I don’t know you so I cannot judge you.. I’m just saying you seem to look down on the very people you are trying to serve.

Of course escorts are annoyed by reviews: who wouldn’t love to work with such high fees without having their work scrutinized?

You say that reviews can be faked. Easier said than done. Fake interviews smell. Every time I relied on an interview I felt was genuine, I found it matching reality.

Cheers.

“I wish there were a better system… to say “this particular person is safe”.”

There is.

It’s called Preferred 411, Date-Check, and RS2K, to name just a few.

It’s also a safe bet that a provider is safe when she declines to talk about money or services, and/or stresses the limits of what she WON’T do on her site (because you are scheduling with providers who have their act together enough to actually have a site, right?).

LE WANTS you to talk about money and graphic details. They promise you the moon and the stars, no limits on hours (“24/7” isn’t possible for anything but a cyborg) or services (“anything goes” = red flag). Their advertising seems to have no filters on the quality or details of who they’ll see, and no matter how implausibly young, beautiful, inexpensive, and accommodating the “girls” in their fake ads supposedly are, they’re ready to see you right away, because they somehow haven’t been mobbed by a thousand other guys. They DON’T “screen” or “verify” up front – they don’t need to, as they’ll have you handcuffed with your wallet out soon enough, finding out who you are, after you scheduled, ironically, for the very reason that they DIDN’T ask for your personal info.

All that being said, in the states 9 female providers are routinely arrested for every 1 male client. A male client is almost NEVER arrested, even when caught red handed – look at Eliot Spitzer. The only male clients who are ever arrested are streetwalker johns who have no concept of privacy, discretion, common sense, or anything else really. So “safety” is really a bit of an exaggeration coming from clients. You risk a “cash and dash” or disappointment more often than arrest – if you wouldn’t use a word like “safety” to describe a disappointing retail experience, it kind of belittles the true mortal danger providers experience day in and day out to call a simple rip off or disappointment a “safety” issue. But again, if you look at the QUALITY of the provider and her online info before you schedule, you’re a long way toward avoiding any low brow hijinks.

“Reviews” can and have been faked, even in large enough numbers to create the illusion that there’s an “overall average” to “ensure” something or other. LE can and has taken over entire local boards as well as huge national boards like escorts.com (and each time inherits the entire “private” client database), and is free to infiltrate/take over any other “adult review” board anytime, anywhere. They know how to convince you that reviews mean a provider is “safe”, up to and understanding you want to see several, not just one, fake but real looking “reviews”.

The sites I mentioned exist SOLELY to ensure your safety. Not that they couldn’t be taken over as well (although it would have to be by subpoena, as individual interlopers are found out and promptly banished, unlike TER, where management has openly admitted they freely cooperate with LE participating behind the scenes, including having handles, profiles, having/writing multiple “reviews”, etc etc.). The business model for the screening sites is screening only – it’s their bottom line and their only priority to guarantee that singular purpose isn’t compromised, with constant, vigilant monitoring. TER’s business model, on the other hand, is anyone with a hotmail account sign up and is based on advertising and “hype”- pretty much the opposite of all things discreet and well advised. I can remember actually hearing a RADIO COMMERCIAL for TER on a Sirius channel one day, and thinking “these people have lost their minds”. Maybe the radio spot didn’t turn out to be cost effective, or someone woke up to the insanity of advertising a site that openly discusses illegal services advertising on the RADIO, but for at least one brief moment the brain trusts that run TER actually did run a “come one, come all” radio spot, complete with a low, sultry voiced pitch and lots of “innuendo”. I don’t know about you, but as far as “safety” is concerned, with a business behaving that insanely, it makes sense to be anywhere BUT there.

What the sites I listed DON’T have is an indiscreet “heat” generating sky’s the limit “juicy details” yak fest (which is what brings the unwelcome attention of LE to begin with). The sites I mentioned don’t “rate” anyone or reduce them to a numerical statistic (although they do upon occasion allow one or both parties to list simple technical fouls like no shows). They simply do what your post mentions, ENSURE SAFETY. Anyone who needs a board that does more than that is doing things for low reasons while pretending the reasons are lofty.

And if you’re choosing to only see providers with LOTS of reviews, you’re not seeing the cream of the crop as much as you think you are. Providers with a lot of reviews are, if not already angry and resentful, due to be so in the near future, as the “hobbyist” community continuously pressures and strongarms them more and more the more involved in the review boards they get (the boards have a way of creating the thing they claim to have been created to eliminate/avoid). Providers with a lot of reviews may need validation for the self-esteem they lack, in the form of being “popular” on a board. They’re often as affected by the mechanical “by the numbers” mentality as the clients, and are as sensually natural and inspired as a plastic molded doll. They certainly don’t have the substance to stand on their own or the backbone to reclaim their privacy and their industry.

I wish there were a better system. It would be nice if there were a universal way for clients and providers to rate each other, as a way to establish trust, to say “this particular person is safe”.

Ditto!