I'd just like to make a few points of clarification regarding the above post.......some of these points have already been dealth with by subsequent posters.Originally Posted by sharkskin
Firstly as thehighwayman stated, forum moderators continue to use the posting user profile that they initialy registered when they became site members. We have'nt registered seperate E-I Mod accounts, nor have these been assigned to us. It would in fact be against E-I rules to register a secondary user profile unless it was for use solely as a comedy profile. Retaining our user names has benefits. Community and Reviews moderators are first and foremost members of the E-I Community who have undertaken an additional role to try an improve the site (Reviews) or make it (Community Section) a more enjoyable place for those who decide to participate. I think the vast majority of regular users of the site understand the role of the moderators and have no difficulty in differenciating between posts submitted in a moderating capacity (probably <10% of posts) and those submitted as site members (probably >90% of posts). Moderating powers can only be exercised by moderators or E-I staff, so there can be no confusion when such powers (editing, moving, merging, deleting threads or posts, issuing "friendly" warningss, "official" warnings, infractions or banning members) are exercised, that they have to be in ones capacity as a moderator. Beyond that, there is the option of posting a Moderator's Comment or editing a thread to include a Moderator's Comment. I think I instituted these to provide clarity and so that people would not be left in any doubt in which capacity I was posting.......they're big, they're red........they're always short and sweet and to the point and leave no room for misunderstandings.
The benefit to the members of us not moderating anonymously, is that everybody knows which site member they are dealing with, we can't be accused of doing things we would not underwise do it we did not have anonimity and it probably makes us more accountable and act more responsibly. So the E-I Community Moderator under the user name does not indicate an E-I Mod account; it just indicates who is a mod.
The next point is in relation to my stating that it would not make good financial sense for an escort to turn away a client with money in wallet. I think we are all agreed, that escorts are not not-for-profit sole traders. Talking on a phone and waiting in front of a television set for somebody to show, do by themselves not represent income/profit.......a real client outside their doors does. I don't advise escorts to double book........it's not my business to direct them how to operate their own business, or what services they should offer, or what prices they should charge, but having spoken to enough of them, I can understand why they would operate that way. Equally, I would not tell an escort who had a client outside her door who had arrived 30 minutes late, that she should send him away because she is expecting somebody with a booking in 10 minutes. Nobody knows if the second client will turn up unless it is maybe a regular or a person who has made a booking by pm. If I were to make such a suggestion, the escorts would laugh me out of the place.
It's not as if this problem exists only in this business. How often do people have to wait in a doctor's or dentist's surgery because some procedure has taken longer then scheduled or an earlier patient arrived late for an appointment, or somebody suddenly appeared with an emergency? Similarly, how often do plumbers, electricians etc not show up on time for appointments, or fail to show up at all even? Such unfortunately is the real world.
Finally, while you may choose to take your business to escorts who advertise on other sites, are you suggesting that escorts who advertise on these sites operate any differently to those who advertise on E-I, or that an escort who advertises here and elsewhere will treat a client any differently depending on which site he saw her advert that resulted in his booking?
Escorts work the way they want to work; they organise their business to suit themselves, and if this means turnover/profit maximisation, then they seem to be pretty much in step with the capitalist system. I doubt if anything that I would say, either as a member of the community section or a community moderator would make a blind bit of difference as it would get swallowed up amongst all the comments and opinions profered in other posts.
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