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It's hard to believe it's been almost two years since we lost you @Guy Fawkes.  
Here's to you sir...  I hope you're sitting around somewhere in the sky surrounded by a bunch of hot guys being the life of the party.  

Make sure you choose to search everywhere. If you are viewing a thread or category, it will default to search in that area you’re currently in. 

In each of the below, you would get different search results.  

This is a problem on their side, not ours. They changed their URL structure to not use app.rent.men anymore.  Instead of setting their redirect simply to simply remove “app.” from the address they simply just redirected everthing to the homepage. 

Example that I can look at?

I actually saw him on my last trip to NYC towards the start of Feb.  I was up there for a work meeting.  The hotel I was staying at happened to require a room key to get to the upper floors.  It just so happened that one of my coworkers arrived a few minutes before he did to check in.  That coworker stopped to talk with me for a few minutes.   
When he arrived, he saw me...  nodded slightly and moved over to the elevators out of the way/sight until I was finished.  
So he was able to "read the room" well and once upstairs, we had a fantastic time.  Very sexy and friendly.  No problem at all with communication and lots of fun.  
Would see him again without a second thought.  

At one point I thought about syndicating some of our PG gallery images to Facebook/Twitter as a way to drive traffic to the site. However with the way both sites change their rules and randomly punish sites for things that are not against a rule… I skipped it. 

I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t publish ANYTHING to those services anymore. On Facebook, I see the posts from friends/family and Twitter is just a porn feed. (God forbid I post something on Twitter though that is like anything like what those I follow post…)

I have reason to believe boomerboy and buckleup are the same person.  They share both the same IP address and device IDs.  
This person has created multiple user accounts to promote/defend themself.  They've also threatened the site with lawsuits and criminal charges.  Based on his actions here, I would recommend our members not engage with this person in any way.  
 

@Xander… I have merged the two accounts and renamed the new one to your original username. Because the new account was the “surviving” one, it’s account creation date is the one that is shown even though you have posts going back over a decade ago. 

This is something I’m playing with. We stop over 500 per DAY. I’m trying to get better tools but it is an arms race.  We also have to balance this with not blocking or curtailing legitimate new members.

Those specific attempts are using ChatGPT to try and make posts semi relevant the reply with links as a way to get around some standard tools that moderate the first post made. (We don’t do that but it’s a common site tactic.)

This is something I’m playing with. We stop over 500 per DAY. I’m trying to get better tools but it is an arms race.  We also have to balance this with not blocking or curtailing legitimate new members.

Those specific attempts are using ChatGPT to try and make posts semi relevant the reply with links as a way to get around some standard tools that moderate the first post made. (We don’t do that but it’s a common site tactic.)

Palm Springs weekend would be my guess if I was a betting man.   

@Xander… I have merged the two accounts and renamed the new one to your original username. Because the new account was the “surviving” one, it’s account creation date is the one that is shown even though you have posts going back over a decade ago. 

Palm Springs weekend would be my guess if I was a betting man.   

@AnOxford...  is this your old account?
https://www.companyofmen.org/profile/2487-xander/content/
If so, I can help you get the account back or merge it if you want.  PM me if so.
Either way... welcome back!  We hope you stick around the community!  You have a wonderful perspective!  

@AnOxford...  is this your old account?
https://www.companyofmen.org/profile/2487-xander/content/
If so, I can help you get the account back or merge it if you want.  PM me if so.
Either way... welcome back!  We hope you stick around the community!  You have a wonderful perspective!  

@AnOxford...  is this your old account?
https://www.companyofmen.org/profile/2487-xander/content/
If so, I can help you get the account back or merge it if you want.  PM me if so.
Either way... welcome back!  We hope you stick around the community!  You have a wonderful perspective!  

I have reason to believe boomerboy and buckleup are the same person.  They share both the same IP address and device IDs.  
This person has created multiple user accounts to promote/defend themself.  They've also threatened the site with lawsuits and criminal charges.  Based on his actions here, I would recommend our members not engage with this person in any way.  
 

I have reason to believe boomerboy and buckleup are the same person.  They share both the same IP address and device IDs.  
This person has created multiple user accounts to promote/defend themself.  They've also threatened the site with lawsuits and criminal charges.  Based on his actions here, I would recommend our members not engage with this person in any way.  
 

I have reason to believe boomerboy and buckleup are the same person.  They share both the same IP address and device IDs.  
This person has created multiple user accounts to promote/defend themself.  They've also threatened the site with lawsuits and criminal charges.  Based on his actions here, I would recommend our members not engage with this person in any way.  
 

If all goes well, I'm hoping to have the item view done by the end of the week.  Once I get to that point, it means I should hopefully be able to let ya'll play with an EARLY version of the system.  
It won't be perfect by any means...  but it should give you a better idea about how the review system will work and let me work on any bugs that come up.  Anything created in this test version will be deleted...  but it will be very helpful to have people contribute some fake items and reviews to help me test later.   

I don't know if folks saw my teaser in the Lounge for the new review site, but with the new system we will have the capability to have multiple categories of things to review.  This will include things such as:
 
Inside of each category will be items (either a person or a place).  It's basically the thing being reviewed.  Each item depending on what category that it is in can have a set of questions/fields associated with it.  This allows us to ask different questions for each type of item being reviewed.  
Within each item will be the ability to have reviews.  Again, since different categories can have different types of needs, I can create different questions for the reviews themselves.  Think of the reviews as descriptions of the encounter.  You will have an item (aka the masseur) and then the item will have reviews that describe member's encounters.
Given the progress that is being made with the new review site, I'm ready to start figuring out what information we want to collect.  This is where I need your help!
I need to collect both the types of categories we want and what questions would be in the category.  For example:
ITEM INFO
Contact Info
Ad URL Phone Email Website Physical Info
Age Ethnicity Height Weight Body Build Style Massage
Type (Sports, Deep Tissue, Erotic, etc) Experience (years) Location (In-call, Out-call, etc) REVIEW INFO
Location (City, State, Country) Date of Encounter Session Type (In, Out, etc) Session Length Rate (Price ranges...  100-199, 200-299, 300-399, etc) Would You Hire Again (Rate of 5 stars) Did They Match Description (Rate of 5 stars) Lived Up To Expectations (Rate of 5 stars) Review Details (A text box similar to replying to a post to free-form describe your experience.) I need to do this for both individual masseurs and for spas.  I would anticipate there would be different things you would want to know about a spa versus someone who is freelance. Let me know the types of info you think are critical to ask about both the item (person) and about the encounter itself.  

One of the biggest challenges that I've observed over the years is the number of "411" threads on a specific person.  There are times we could have anywhere from 3-12 on a single person!  This could happen for different reasons...  such as someone not knowing how to use the search function or the provider had changed their name.  
When we eventually launch the new review site, when a new item is added... a forum topic will automatically be created for that place/person.  It will have a subject of:
[ Category ] Item Name 
So for example, it might look like:
[ Escort ] John Doe
The first post inside of that topic will contain fields from the review (I can pick which fields get brought over so not all may be posted).  The goal will be that the topic will become the master topic about discussion about that item (person/place).  
Over time...  if we see information that changes about the item, people will be able to report it so that it can be updated.  So if an escort changes their name for example, someone would report that record and provide the new name.  A moderator will be able to update the item.  They'll also be able to add the old name to a special field called "Former Names".  This will let us to better track those who change their names from time to time.  
Inside the review record, it might look something like:

If other things change, that can be updated in the record itself.  
All of the detail from that record anytime it is edited would also sync to the master thread and edit the first post in it with the updated info, including the topic title if there was a a name change involved.  
Now... I'm going to put this out there now that moderators may from time to time not publish a name change in the "Former Names" field.  If we have reason to believe there is a risk to the person or there is another legitimate reason, we may update the name field only without adding the old name to the former name field.  
This will hopefully allow the first post to contain all of the latest known info about each item as it gets changed over time without needing to update 500 places.  If it works out the way I'm hoping, this will become the "source of truth" about the item and people can comment over time with their own observations, etc.  The topic itself would not be used for reviews.  (That's what the review system is for.) But general discussion about the person would happen there.
Eventually if someone does post a new thread about someone where a master topic exists, the moderators may end up merging that post into the master.
This is obviously not in place yet.  I'm just tossing the idea out there now so folks have a chance to comment on it and get used to the idea.  
 

This is done for multiple reasons...  spam is one, but in addition it has been abused by people who have been banned from the site who come back and try to register additional accounts to circumvent their ban.   There is lots of "crap" ya'll don't see that the staff deal with on a regular basis.   

It's been 3 minutes since I made my last post in this thread, but in that time he's replied again...

My response:
I forgot to mention it in my email, but on the off chance this lawsuit would proceed, it would also mean that his "clients" StarGZ and VictorXX could also be compelled to testify.  Which would mean they would have their real names associated with hiring escorts as well.  So much for them being discreet gentlemen!
(But again...  that would only happen if I'm actually wrong and those two actually existed.)
See the kind of crazy I get to deal with?