I have always considered MERB and the blue board as "Adult Traveler Boards". Many active MERB contributors do not live in Montreal. Seven years ago, the interventions of these members were informative as they wrote about their stays and kinky adventures in our lovely city Montreal. Nowadays, and given the economic situation in the U.S, those posts sound as boring as hell. Who really cares about reading baseball and hockey threads in an escort-related site?
Both boards failed lamentably to attract the locals, those who buy the JDM, pick up the phone and arrange for a rendez-vous. I have never met any of the MERB advertisers, but once and that was Ronnie. I call SPs, once in a blue moon, who advertise either on JDM or on a123, but I will never post reviews on my encounters here just because I think that MERB is not the place to do so.