Recommendation Sections for All Members

PistolPete · September 1, 2013

I posted this in the "New to this area" as well.

I went through 3 pages of Ottawa only section of recommendations, there was 6 rec's that were BUMPED to page 1 due to general comments, over the past week alone.

In fact one recommendation has been closed on a lady that was on here for quite sometime but has been retired for over a year or more now.

So this was my post in the area, and should be posted here too......

When posting a recommendation,

a) Ensure permission from the lady is granted along with her photo's, and ensure that the details are either not shared with everyone,or if she does allow details feel free to do so.

b) If she is a lady from BP or what ever other site, ensure you give as much info on how you found her.

c) Posting a picture IF it is a Rec thread starter for the lady and if she is an Cerb member with pictures on her profile. Right click on her picture you and her like to use for the replacement over the regular check mark. Save the photo to your pictures, than add it where it tells you to upload the picture. (For your own safety, simply delete photo from your saved photos so you have no evidence in your photo liabary folder). You can also ask permission from the lady if the thread is already started, and add a picture by right clicking on her photo, and you add it in your comment box, which gives appeal to the recommendation.

d) Recommendations threads are just that, to recommend to others, it is NOT an area where You think it is alright to ask questions about a lady in recommendation thread. Example Clicking on the bottom to respond to a thread Recommendation, to ask.....

1) How do I get in touch with her? (Info should be provided already)

2) She have a web site? (If she has one there is box to insert web sites look first on the first page)

3) Oh she sounds like a lady I like to meet!(general comments should not be used in recommendation, it simply BUMPS the recommendation to the first page)

4) What is her rates? (rates should not be discussed unless already in her web site or ad, BUT this question is already answered in the information provided)

5) Where is she located? (If the city is noted than you know where she is located)

6) Please do not make general comment in Recommendation that you saw this lady a year ago, things have changed in a year especially if she has RETIRED!

There is many other general comments made lately in recommendations which is truly unnecessary and not needed as that we call BUMPING.

Information already provided in the recommendation PAGE 1, will answer your questions, IF NOT simply PM (Personal Message) the lady or the gent that provided the recommendation IF YOU NEED FURTHER information.

Lately there is has been many BUMPS which are UNFAIR to those ladies that may have had moved from say....page 4 to page 1 then they are quickly off page 1 because of general unnecessary comments. Perhaps this a bit of a rant from myself, but I think the playing field should always be FAIR to ALL LADIES on the board.

MOD if you have anything to add, please say so..I would not even mind in the board gave infractions for BUMPING by general comments.

As I know that ladies are NOT allowed to comment on their own Recommendation, than why is it allowed by gents that simply do not use the search buttons? or will not send PM'S? and they make comments on a recommendation thread that has no merits?

I could be off base, but that is my thoughts and I'm sure some will not appreciate this thread, but something should be done IMHO.

Luckyme · September 1, 2013

Thank you. I am glad you have brought this issue up. It is very unfair to the other reco. posts since you could easily bump some lady's reco posts up by simply posting something like " How do I contact her?" . For the sake of someone who is not familiar with the search button or couldn't find the lady's info. for any reason, I usually include the lady's profile page and her latest ad.on my reco. posts.

Phaedrus · September 3, 2013

Lately there is has been many BUMPS which are UNFAIR to those ladies that may have had moved from say....page 4 to page 1 then they are quickly off page 1 because of general unnecessary comments. Perhaps this a bit of a rant from myself, but I think the playing field should always be FAIR to ALL LADIES on the board.

Absolutely. I'm pretty sure this is already mentioned in the FAQ or rules or somewhere, but I'm too lazy to check right now.

The thing is, Mod probably can't really police this as he already has way too much on his plate and keeping an eye on every post in a reco thread is probably just too much work. However... there's no reason why we can't do it and flag chatter in reco threads for Mod to remove. I'm assuming that removing an individual post from a thread isn't a big deal, provided it's not the first one in the thread.

But I'm also assuming that Mod would agree with us on this... I've dropped him a PM about it, so hopefully he'll tell us.