if you think that the occasional "white knight" is the cause of this board's inactivity, you are oversimplifying the issue significantly.
You say that the SD board has no activity. Compare it to a board that you feel does have activity...maybe LV, or LA? What are the differences? Do those boards never have "white knight" activity? Or is it that those boards have more of a community of established posters that create more of an interactive board?
As I said in my initial post, I acknowledge that Jai has not always been a great communicator. However, between this guy obviously having an axe to grind against Jai (calling her "your highness"), the fact that there are several regular posting and reviewing members here who have great histories with her, the fact that she is about the ONLY provider in the SD area who bothers to post on this board semi-regularly, and the history of this guys' posts being mostly either negative or information requests without him contributing any reviews or any "community building" posts (i.e., not relative to a specific girl), I thought it was unnecessary for him to be so blatant with his thread, and I basically said so. Add in the fact that none of the guys who have defended Jai has done so in a way that has really jumped on his ass like used to be done on here (and believe me, it used to get pretty ugly here), and I don't think their remarks are really going to choke off the "comeback" of this board that has evidenced no signs of life as it is.
Lastly, compare the initial thread to a thread a few down by sparker. There, you have a hobbyist who has a history of reviews and who used to post regularly (and who does still occasionally). He had a similar experience, one that was actually much worse, but he never named the provider (who is on the same quality level as Jai). Why? These threads aren't so much this big helpful thing to hobbyists that "need" to happen to keep providers honest (like anything will EVER do that in this town!) as much as a method of payback, that's why. That's why I posted what I did. This board has been down for a long time, and threads like this aren't the solution...and if you aren't part of the solution...well, you know. As Kali correctly pointed out in sparker's thread, there is n3ver any mention of no shows by the guys. Why? Because the women CAN'T say something negative about the guys, unless it is blatantly so, without the fear of losing business. Until this is a fair forum in that respect, I think that flaking just has to be understood as part of this business (it isn't like you can go to the BBB about a provider), and people should take it less personally and just move on when it happens.
Oh, and FTR, I was stood up on my FIRST TER appointment by Jessica (for you old timers out there, the NC oral specialist gang chick) back in 1/03.
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