The right bullshit!
I'm actually more skeptical than what you're describing. If boards were irrelevant or, let's say, neutral in that these wouldn't have any significant impact, positive or negative, I wouldn't worry. But that's not how it works. Boards have a fairly open structure where information can be posted quite freely. Conversely, boards don't dispose of reliable mechanisms to validate the information that is being posted. An example (a real and recent one) that comes to mind is this agency making publicity for itself over the escorts they represent being - quote unquote - "tested".
It's not about that at all. Maybe you aren't skeptical enough. You are totally right in one sense. In terms of this board being able to enforce anything of a definitive nature is completely impossible. Yes information can be posted freely here. If I were an agency owner , yeah I could say all my girls were tested. So what. This is totally irrelevant. This board is a
social environment period. It operates on a totally different premise. It is all about reputations and opinions. There is a strong political element here. The entire structure including the rules which all members must adhere to are not based on law or science.
When members see a claim such as the "tested" one you mention it means about as much to them as claims meant for the new K-Tel slicer and dicer. I'll believe it when I see it. When the agency owner came on disputing the health risks of GFE I would be willing to bet he was looked upon as a whiner. The members just want what they want. Do these guys think we all just fell off the turnip truck?
So what impact does the board have? What got rumpleforeskin banned? What prompted Anik to say,
But what about these guys who gave up such stupid information in the first place... how is it that they are not to blame?
It was all about that intangible called a reputation. Reputations are often the children of gossip, opinion and innuendo. And in that lies the power of this board. When a member complains about the poor service he got was there anyone there to corroborate it? Really? No. Agency owners are offering some form of compensation as damage control. Period. Don't read anything more into it.
Well, what do you know! That same agency owner was pushing the idea through the back channels that GFE service ought to be charged extra. While some agencies agreed to the principle, others didn't and a few others, who supposedly agreed to raise the prices, secretly opened new agencies offering standard GFE service for the current rates.
Now you can postulate any conspiracy theory that you like as to what went on. Were members manipulated? I don't know. Who gives a damn about what agency owners may have thought or what game plan they had going. You don't think any one of them wouldn't have broken ranks if there was a dollar involved? You betcha. Market forces prevail here as anywhere else.
Who cares what they thought about it. There are ten more ready to make a better offer.
You see that for agency owners the members of this board represent a viable market. And it is a fickle market. It can turn on you anytime. You have painted it without any particular cause to engender loyalty and I agree 100%.
Because this board is a viable market. Because it operates on reputation, opinion and the like agencies are vulnerable. Anik called it: The idiots who tout such claims about sp's who may offer such services are creating the problem. Reputations are made and broken this way. Do you think the mods will be able to put the clamps on anyone saying , "Hey guys! The girls over here at agency XYZ have been caving in and providing BBFS. This is the place to go!" They might be able to within the body of this forum but not on the pm's or with other forms of communication.
Now, all that said, I don't know about you. But if I were an agency owner I just might be inclined to spread the word among my girls that " I don't want it to be spread around that in this agency we can be relied upon, more than the other agencies, to allow BBFS." Not if I was concerned about this market. I just might be inclined to tell the girls that if I find that you are f**king things up for this agency, you are gone. I want to know who these guys are. And I don't want any of you giving BBFS" You see I truly believe as Anik does that the guys who "gave such stupid information in the first place" are true knuckle walkers then I can see the aforementioned scenario unfolding. They don't give a damn about us or the agencies or the girls. This is all about highballing the rest of us no matter what the cost. So you see, in the end analysis, it is not just about producing bullshit for the agency owners but about making sure that the right bullshit is produced. Giving a damn about the clients or the girls wont deter them but getting blackballed by a significant element of the clientele who are scared shitless to get AIDS just might. Condoms break. Would you want one to break inside a girl from an agency with a rep for allowing BBFS? I wouldn't.
