Dear Patricia,

I'm sure that you must be aware of some recent developments and trends in threads being posted on this site. No, I'm not talking about Liz on this occasion, as this is something that I dont believe she has contributed to.

Firstly, we have had QPH forwarding the contents of PMs to the moderators and some others who have requested them, in order to substantiate his position viz a viz a perceived threat to Dolly from Bigpaws. I cant comment on the veracity of those threats whether real or perceived, but no matter how genuine or noble QPH's motivation in taking this course of action, I am not convinced that it was a good call at the end of the day.

Secondly, since then we have had people copy and paste the contents of chat room dialogues and private chats and post these in the community section to show what people have said to one another and who used which offensive word first.

Now if this site is about free speech and expression (as well as other things) then these actions are going to have a greater negative affect on these freedoms than any amount of censorship on the part of the mods. Nobody is going to say anything off of centre for fear of it being brought up against them later and I feel that this is particularly true for the escorts who have most to loose at the end of the day. Nobody should be attacked here for what they believe or the way they choose to lead their lives. After all, E-I caters to all genders, sexual orientations and most perversions, so one would have to be a complete idiot to cast a stone in this place.

The third development, which has cropped up from time to time, has been the publishing in the open fora of real data about individuals i.e. names, addresses, phone numbers. This has always been jumped on by the mods and censored. A recent Blog written by Dolly Darling which appears as a link on a recent thread now gives out the name, email address and mobile number of an E-I member. While technically this may not infringe the rules against posting such information on the site, it certainly goes against the spirit of those rules. I suspect that this blog was a preemptive strike against the E-I member who has stated that he would post the contests of many PMs in the community section unless certain people withdrew what they had said. While I have no problem with Dolly posting the contents of these PMs, as a precedent had already been established by QPH himself, I believe she was in error and made a bad call in not deleting the personal information first.

Ireland may be larger than New York, but the population of the whole island would fit two and a half or three times into New York and the village mentality is still alive and well in many parts of rural Ireland. When a client goes to an escort, he would like to be as assured of confidentiality as if he were going to see his solicitor or going into the confessional. This is particularly the case if he lives in a rural area or has a partner, family, friends who are not aware of his little hobby. I feel that Dolly has therefore unfortunately scored a major own-goal in identifying an E-I member who by his own admission is not even a punter and has no intention of ever becoming a punter.

Whilst not in favour of censorship, I believe that the mods under certain circumstances are not only justified, but obliged to delete or censor material for a number of genuine reasons. Unfortunately this material could be out there for all to read for quite some time before the mods get to see it and get around to doing something about it. The offending material may then be deleted but the damage has already been done and the offender just gets away with it.

Many people describe the fora in the other place as boring or dead and that the heavy hand of the censor is constantly being wielded there. However, if you want to ensure that your identity is somewhat safer and that action will be taken against those who break the stated rules, than it might just be the better option.

Patricia maybe it is about time that the rules really were enforced here for the general betterment of E-I. One day/one week holidays are all fine and well, but they dont really solve the problem. The perpetrators just come back and engage in more of the same. Those who flout the rules, whether they be escorts, clients or others should be banned in perpetuity - both their user name and their ip address. One official warning should suffice and then on your bike for a repeat infringement of a particular rule.

I would differentiate here between those who inadvertently break a rule and those who quite obviously go out of their way to damage others and to generally bring this site into disrepute.

Yours etc,