Agency ladies are not allowed to discuss such issues on MERB, but Indies can. The Agency is deemed to be the respondent in these situations and they are never going to throw a client under the bus unless he seeks BBFS or seeks to harm the escort physically.
Around 8 years ago an Eleganza escort, towards the end of that agency's run, wrote a bad review on a client in response to the bad review the client had written about her. She wrote detailed, unflattering comments both of the cient's hygiene and his anatomy. Her review was deleted by the Mods pretty swiftly, but not before I read it. I objected to the deletion and requested restoration of the review by the Mods. The Mods refused, and retorted that: (1) the Agency should respond in this situation (which they are never going to do unless BBFS is attempted as well), and (2) the allowance of such bad client reviews tends to "chill" clients from posting reviews on a review board. Indeed, perhaps prophetically to what the Mods at the time said, after that excoriating "bad client" review, that client never posted on MERB again, at least not under that handle. He had read and responded to the unflattering retort, and his sur-reply was also deleted. It was meek and defensive and reeked, to me, of admission..
To be fair to the 2010 Mods, that Eleganza escort's review was way over the top, sarcastic, extremely detailed, and was a clearcut retribution, although it did put the initial bad review on her in a proper context. It was also the 1st bad review that particular escort received on MERB.
That whole episode bothered me for some reason, and I posted my own personal objections to the MERB policy on not allowing agency escorts to comment on their reviews in some detail. I guess the bottom line is that on a review board mostly catering to male clients, some protections need to be given to the clients to protect their "right" to post reviews of their experiences without being "assailed". Readers, therefore, basically have to read between the lines on bad reviews they read on MERB, which has always been the case when there are reasonable but unstated reasons for a particular client's bad service as stated in his review. On these kinds of issues, the knowledge of the local SPs behind the scenes is VASTLY superior to the MERB readers who do not receive the information that the agency ladies and/or indies have from b/c communication with each other.
