List the city, please

[Peter Eater]

Thanks to all those who courteously include the provider’s CITY in the subject line.

As I first looked at the Deli today, the majority of first-page posts —18 of 30! — named the provider but not the provider’s location.
 

As I have no plans to be in Des Moines, Miami or Dallas tonight, it would be helpful if the subject line included the location of the provider Thanks again! 

 

[myophile]

So … this is valid advice for those posting a new 411 request, and specifically in the case of a provider who rarely travels. But please bear in mind that the title/subject line of a post about a provider VISITING NYC is only going to be useful while that provider is in NYC. Six weeks later, when that provider visits DC, and somebody posts the fact in that thread, the original subject line “411 on So-and-So in NYC” is just going to mislead. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that anybody but the OP can edit that subject line. Furthermore, if somebody posts a NEW thread with the title “411 on So-and-So in DC”, won’t the admins simply merge that with the old thread? Bottom line: I find it more useful to let the RM profiles of providers keep me up to date on their sometimes complicated travel schedules.

Edited 11 hours ago by myophile

[+ KensingtonHomo]

I, too, would prefer their main city to be listed. I guess if someone travels regularly, you could note that. But it's easier to search for someone on here who is visiting your city by their handle than to wade through 30 posts only to discover that none of them are near you. 

[CuriousByNature]

Not a big issue, but it might be good to avoid adding 'NEW' to a thread title, unless you also happen to add the month and year.

There are threads from 5 years ago that still indicate a provider as being 'new'.  

[DMonDude]

Listing city is meaningless for the huge chunk of providers who are sometimes/always traveling. Even ones who don't travel super often sometimes move. It's outdated info within a matter of days or weeks for traveling providers and sometimes even out of date after X time for fairly static providers if they move or visit somewhere for vacation and take clients where they are visiting.

I don't think there's really any real logical solution for this. The only possible solution is if the developers of the forum added a feature that somehow real time tracks the listed location of a provider in RM and auto updates posts with their name to change location. And i think that'd be very infeasible.

I don't know. This has never really crossed my mind as being an issue personally. Most providers I've hired in the past are traveling providers, and when i came here to look providers up i already had a name to search from browsing RM first. I'm generally not browsing the Deli and looking for my city in the titles because i already had it in my head from the start that many providers move around a lot. So i could be the odd one out in that way and this wouldn't ping as an annoyance for me.

Edited 9 hours ago by DMonDude

[Walt]

5 minutes ago, DMonDude said:

Listing city is meaningless for the huge chunk of providers who are sometimes/always traveling. Even ones who don't travel super often sometimes move. It's outdated info within a matter of days or weeks for traveling providers and sometimes even out of date after X time for fairly static providers if they move or visit somewhere for vacation and take clients where they are visiting.

I don't think there's really any real logical solution for this. The only possible solution is if the developers of the forum added a feature that somehow real time tracks the listed location of a provider in RM and auto updates posts with their name to change location. And i think that'd be very infeasible.

YES, totally agree. Listing city is meaningless, unless people also expect to create international laws forbidding providers to travel.

[builder boy]

Agreed 

[DMonDude]

2 hours ago, CuriousByNature said:

Not a big issue, but it might be good to avoid adding 'NEW' to a thread title, unless you also happen to add the month and year.

There are threads from 5 years ago that still indicate a provider as being 'new'.  

Adding month/year isn't needed, all posts are already time stamped.

[aiseeya]

Wouldnt it be easier to search by their RM's handle name? 

[jeezifonly]

3 hours ago, KensingtonHomo said:

I, too, would prefer their main city to be listed. I guess if someone travels regularly, you could note that. But it's easier to search for someone on here who is visiting your city by their handle than to wade through 30 posts only to discover that none of them are near you. 

Yes. If the provider travels mostly without a permanent home base, just add "Traveler" in front of the name rather than a city locale after. For clients who never host, this detail of location is crucial for consideration. 
The ad sites allow the provider great leeway as to where they actually are vs words in the profile, and clarification here really makes a diff.

[Peter Eater]

1 hour ago, DMonDude said:

Listing city is meaningless for the huge chunk of providers who are sometimes/always traveling. Even ones who don't travel super often sometimes move. It's outdated info within a matter of days or weeks for traveling providers and sometimes even out of date after X time for fairly static providers if they move or visit somewhere for vacation and take clients where they are visiting.

I don't think there's really any real logical solution for this. The only possible solution is if the developers of the forum added a feature that somehow real time tracks the listed location of a provider in RM and auto updates posts with their name to change location. And i think that'd be very infeasible.

I don't know. This has never really crossed my mind as being an issue personally. Most providers I've hired in the past are traveling providers, and when i came here to look providers up i already had a name to search from browsing RM first. I'm generally not browsing the Deli and looking for my city in the titles because i already had it in my head from the start that many providers move around a lot. So i could be the odd one out in that way and this wouldn't ping as an annoyance for me.

No, it’s not meaningless. Every rentmen ad lists “location,” right at the top. Use that. 

[Peter Eater]

18 minutes ago, aiseeya said:

Wouldnt it be easier to search by their RM's handle name? 

No, it would not be easier. That’s the point. In the example used, it would be necessary to search lots and lots of unnecessary providers to find their location, which they identify on their RM page an OP could use when posting here.

It ain’t rocket science. 🚀🚀🚀

[onmoamoa]

1 minute ago, Peter Eater said:

No, it would not be easier. That’s the point. In the example used, it would be necessary to search lots and lots of unnecessary providers to find their location, which they identify on their RM page an OP could use when posting here.

It ain’t rocket science. 🚀🚀🚀

Yet this discounts everyone else’s point here which is that many providers do not stay in one spot, so you’re more likely to have 5 threads about 1 provider for each different city. If you’re looking up a provider and wanting feedback you’d ideally already know they are in or are coming to your city. If you’re just browsing here and you don’t have a person in mind, respectfully, it doesn’t seem like it’s other’s responsibility to follow your patterns. Also not brain surgery 🧠👨‍⚕️, but to each their own.

[GTMike]

Assume these threads will be merged - 

 

[aiseeya]

1 minute ago, Peter Eater said:

No, it would not be easier. That’s the point. In the example used, it would be necessary to search lots and lots of unnecessary providers to find their location, which they identify on their RM page an OP could use when posting here.

It ain’t rocket science. 🚀🚀🚀

Well I never use this forum as the primary source of browsing page. Instead would go to RM to search for providers in my area, identify providers i am interested in and only then run those providers' RM's handle names using the 'search' feature in this forum simply to check if any thread on those providers posted here for references. 

Seems to me that would be much more efficient than going through this forum to identify providers in my area.

[DMonDude]

1 hour ago, Peter Eater said:

No, it would not be easier. That’s the point. In the example used, it would be necessary to search lots and lots of unnecessary providers to find their location, which they identify on their RM page an OP could use when posting here.

It ain’t rocket science. 🚀🚀🚀

So i think this is coming down to different ways people use this forum. It seems you use this forum as your main method of browsing providers. If that's what you're doing then i see how you are coming to this conclusion because you aren't seeing the providers profile first. You are seeing the CoM Deli most recents page, you're using the CoM Deli page kind of like the Online Now and in your city search (which is not it's function, but whatever, that's how people seem to be using it). So I can see a bit more why you are wanting what you want because you're using this as your main place to browse in addition to see reviews. 

However, it's at odds with how another portion of us are using this forum, which is we come here after browsing on RM or other site and then we search a specific provider of interests handle here, because to us, why would we want to sift through a bunch of posts for providers we aren't interested in when we can use the much more robust profile search function on RM or other site first? So we come here already knowing what city they are in at that present moment because that's how we're seeing them come up on RM in the first place. Searching the handle here brings up any new and old posts that often say cities that Provider is likely no longer located in. So that's why we largely see it as useless or redundant info to include in the post title. We are seeing the providers location from the start because we are starting from their listing and not here first.

It's not rocket science, but it is a matter of different use cases and perspectives. To both of us, our way is "easier" cause it's what we're used to doing.

Edited 6 hours ago by DMonDude

[CuriousByNature]

3 hours ago, DMonDude said:

Adding month/year isn't needed, all posts are already time stamped.

Hence my words, "Not a big issue".  It isn't 'needed', and nor did I suggest it was.