Your posting under an alias, so you have an agenda. you want any credibility on this subject...step up under your "real" TER handle. Anything unfair or improper is handled by dingus pretty quickly....so nothing going on here is "unfair".

If we follow your suggestion, as I understand it, guys would be restricted to making their comments about a lady only under her (or her agency's) opening thread.

Simple math and human nature quickly points to a problem IMHO.

Let's say that an indy lady opens her weekly thread and 5 gentlemen who have met her recently elect to post under it. I have 6 threads to read.

An agency does that same weekly posting. There are also 5 guys who would like to comment about a girl they met recently. Since most of the agencies have 15 or more ladies working for them, there could be, theoretically, some 75 sub threads to wade through. Do you really think anyone is going to take the time to do that? Not me for sure. I have limited brain power and I will take the information from the board in short increments, thank you.

Besides, I can just hear the screams now coming from those who would then feel that the "extra long" agency treads are still somehow "unfair".

If by "shilling" you mean posting positive comments about a Provider, I do it whenever I feel the need.  When I have had a particularly good experience, I would like to share that experience with other like-minded individuals.  I'm not likely to call my mother and tell her, but I do sometimes feel the need to share my good fortune with someone, and TER seems to me to be the perfect place to do that.

If you, or anyone else, would prefer not to read about how wonderful some Provider was for me, you are under no obligation to read my post.  I always make it clear in the title of my threads when I am going to speak well of someone, so it's not as though you'll click it thinking it might have been something you wanted to read.

In a way, what we're talking about is censorship. You're suggesting that I talk about Providers only at certain prescribed times and in certain prescribed ways.  While I would certainly not post something intended to denounce a Provider, (simply saying nothing about her sometimes sends a message of its own) I see no reason why it hurts anyone for me to shout from the rooftops about how good one was. Why would you wish to limit my speech?

Posting a positive “mini-review” is not saying any other Provider is bad.  I'm simply saying that this particular one is very good.  I fail to see how that hurts anyone.

I have my favorites.  I’m sure everyone else does as well.  I don’t know the Provider who began this thread, but whomever you are, I’m sure you are the favorite of some other hobbyist(s).  He is (or they are) welcome to post all the good things they would like about you, and I may well read them and determine that you are someone I might like to see.  If it helps your business, I’m happy for you.  If my post helps the business of one of the Providers who has been kind enough to spend some time with me, I’m happy for her, too.

This sort of reminds me of a lawsuit a woman once filed against a Fire Department that wouldn’t let her become a firefighter because she wasn’t strong enough to carry a man from a burning building.  I might as well sue the Diamondbacks for not letting me play infield.  Everyone should be treated equally, shouldn’t they?  Why should Craig Counsell make all that money, and not me?  The answer, of course, is obvious.  Craig Counsell is better than I am.

I’m not saying this Provider is anything but excellent.  I have no way of knowing that.  But, if you’re unhappy that other Providers have more positive posts than you do, I’m sorry.  They have obviously done things to make Hobbyists who have had the pleasure of their company want to post them.  You might wish to do so, too.  

If you want to work for the Fire Department, work out so you’re strong enough to carry me from the burning building.

To me, it’s that simple.