Thank you for recognizing this. I am going to put this out there. If someone goes after a friend of mine or myself, I will defend myself or the friend in question, but I would never try to sabotage this person's business, publish slander about them online or gossip about them with clients.
There are Merb users I really dislike because I don't like their attitude, but I am not going to make up something false about them just to be vindictive. I would say that's the same thing with most providers I know, we all have people we don't like online, but if we haven't seen them in person and they haven't treated us with disrespect in person or during a booking process, it actually hurts everyone to invent something about them. The thing is, I have said it, there has been Merb users who have done disrespectful things to me. I am not about to go on a crusade against them because I don't have the energy for it, but if how some clients who publish reviews here were exposed for how they treat certain providers, their reviews would not be seen the same way.