TER is a great place for both providers and clients to share experiences and information.  Ultimately this makes the hobby better for all of us.  It works best if everyone participates.

I would like to propose that ISO posts cannot be done using an Alias.  If it were up to me I would say you would at least have to have a review, but at the very least it doesnt make sense to post inqueries using an Alias.

Someone who is shy might want to post a question that doesn't track back to them.

I am not shy.  I have expressed an interest in providers who use strap-ons.  And, I have had immature morons try to use that when talking about me in a negative light.  I don't care what those asses think.  I am comfortable with my own interests.  However, I can easily see how someone might want to post an ISO for a service and they would rather not have others know the ISO came from them.

Heh.  I wrote up a better example, but I think I should post it as an alias, so no one knows it came from me, cause it's pretty bad.  

I came up with another scenario where anonymity would be good for posting an ISO.

Someone might ask if there are any recommendations for a girl that will dress up in a school girl uniform and act out an underage rape fantasy, or some shit like that.  

With another consenting adult, acting out such things can be a healthy outlet for what we would all agree is an unhealthy desire.  But that doesn't mean a poster here wants to advertise that he has such a fantasy.

Even if you think acting out that particular item with an escort is bad, you can see my point.  There are a ton of innocuous things someone might want to ask about, without that request being tied to them.

i understand what you mean.  I had used an alias a while back when enquiring on the TS board.  Still I feel that a user with actual input to the board would be apt to get more responses to an ISO post.

Know of their encounters and desires they have a rite to privacy.

The first rule of ISO posts should be the subject line must begin with "ISO".

I assume that the rule is not implemented because the poster is not moderated and/or the moderators already have enough on their plate.

So if someone has 411 they can send me a PM.  

About 3 years ago, I posted a 411 for a gal who had an Eros ad (for a very short period of time) and a nice website, however under the Q&A there was a strict no review policy.

I posted a 411 and got a PM.  I ended up meeting with her 3 times, before she met a SD who took her out of our world.  

She was truly one of the best I ever met, and there are a handful here on TER who met her, remember her, and wish her only the best.

Anyway, the point I am trying to make, is that if you post and want people to be able to PM you, then do it with a handle, not an alias.  Seems like common sense, but then again, I see people, talking on their cell phone, or listening to the iPod,  and walk in front of buses almost every day.  Doh!