First off, being a mod here is a thankless (and unpaid) job. My hat is off to the individuals doing this work for the benefit of this community.
Second, I am thankful that I am able to even write a post like this without instantly getting rage-banned by the former psycho mod who almost killed this board with his own very specific, ever-changing, and contradictory set of rules.
I am a longtime contributor here, but by no means the most prolific. Even so, I hope my words here will resonate with some members, in the interest of monger safety. I have two requests to the mods:
1. BB talk should be allowed. This service is being openly advertised by many agencies and AMPs in the biggest markets represented on this site (NY and west Coast) and mongers should be aware who is providing this service and who is using it. It is no longer clandestine or undercover and thus limiting its discussion here is pointless.
2. STD talk should be allowed. I understand that it can be "career-killing" for a girl or agency if STD rumors are floating around. And I also understand that some reviewers may choose to lie about this in bad faith, just as they may lie about any number of other things in their reviews. But this is a board for mongers, and monger safety and info sharing should be the top priority. Protecting girls, agencies or their handlers is a lesser priority.
Even if only 1 out 10 STD reports is "true" it is potentially the most valuable service a site like this can provide. I see any comments or threads related to STDs or unsafe girls (or even unsafe monger behavior, bragging about BB/CIP/CIA/etc) get deleted reflexively and that is really discouraging. It has definitely led me to question whether I will continue contributing at all to this site. It seems there is a small minority of members here who partake in unsafe activities (and even some of which have mentioned being carriers for longterm STDs like HSV) that are the loudest voices shouting down any of this talk, or reporting these threads. Everybody should take their own risks in this game. But I really struggle to understand why mods should purposely limit the ability for others to even get information about risky or potentially risky girls. Who is served by this policy?
If you agree with the above, feel free to like this post. I've debated this in other threads (most of which the mods have deleted for the above reasons) so will try to avoid doing that here. But I think the mods should ultimately reflect the will of members here if there is any significant agreement with the above requests.
I haven't had time to read all 8 pages of comments, but will address the OP the best way I can. Keep in mind that the ONLY person who has the power to decide what is acceptable on the site is TJ, as the admin of the site.
1) BB talk is not forbidden. Which is another way of saying it's (discreetly) allowed. That said, at a minimum, we'd like for it to stay under the radar as much as possible, given the potential complications it can cause. We definitely discourage its discussion in public comments and discussions (i.e., accessible to the entire Internet). By keeping it in the private details of a review, or in the private access section, or in PMs (private messages), the only 3 places that are NOT available to the general public, keeps it only amongst members with active review balances. Even then, my personal philosophy is discretion over valor.
Yes, this board is for us members and not for anyone else, and yes, it's for information and intel sharing. But there's a fine line between being too vague vs. being too detailed/graphic. The old-timers will know that in the early days of boards like these, certain topics like BB talk was/is taboo. It was just one of those things that was known but wasn't really acknowledge, for a variety of reasons. And there's quite a few reasons...mongers lie and embellish, just like providers lie and embellish, feelings get hurt when both mongers and providers find out the other weren't being truthful (provider: "I only do this for you" or monger: "I only do this with you and I'm totally clean", many don't want their services or partaken of services be publicly known, etc. etc. The point is, there are some things better left unsaid. Sure, transparency is good in most cases, but due to the very nature of this hobby, it's not exactly the same as reviewing your local restaurant or your latest tech purchase.
2) STD discussions are allowed as well. What is forbidden is claiming that you received an STD or STI from a specific provider. It's because there are FAR TOO MANY variables to try to pin down and make a public declaration like that. We CANNOT discern how many providers any given monger has been with, nor do we want to...accusations and claims are highly damaging and virtually impossible to prove. That doesn't mean a monger never gets an STI from a provider...but unless that monger ONLY EVER saw JUST ONE PROVIDER ever, and no one else, including non-pros/civilians, for months and months, there is no way to know for sure. And all of us in this hobby know how very rare that would be.
Anyone who partakes in this hobby is taking a risk. If one is paranoid about catching an STD or STI, there are measure you can take to mitigate it (practice only safe, covered activities), but I bet the vast majority won't do it. Why? Because most would rather go ahead and take that risk and enjoy it.
We are not here to police anyone, but we also do not want to condone accusations that we cannot verify. So the decision was made to not allow it at all. There is no amount of discussion or debate that will force a change in policy of that rule, and while you can keep talking about it, it's not going to happen. If that doesn't work for anyone, there are plenty of other sites out there where anything goes...we are not that.
In your example of just 1 in 10 reports being true, there's a fairly crappy way to go about business. That means that 9 accusations will be false, which would lead to mayhem. We are not a warning site, nor a verification site, nor anything other than an entertainment site, filled with fictional stories. Period.