Rentboy Filters

[kjun]

Have any of you tried to use the filters on Rentboy? I have but without success. My attempt was with rates charged.

[rvwnsd]

Have any of you tried to use the filters on Rentboy? I have but without success. My attempt was with rates charged.

 

The filters are hit-or-miss. I have one called "LA Hairy and Hung." Sometimes, it displays guys whose ads specify they are in LA, are hairy, and are hung big. Other times, it displays ads that meet none of the criteria. Rentboy ain't Google, that's for sure!

[Kevin Slater]

I just filtered Manhattan ads by in rate of $25 to $200, and found the appropriate ads. (If you don't include a minimum rate, you get all the ask mes.)

 

What happened for you?

 

Kevin Slater

[gallahadesquire]

The filters are hit-or-miss. I have one called "LA Hairy and Hung." Sometimes, it displays guys whose ads specify they are in LA, are hairy, and are hung big. Other times, it displays ads that meet none of the criteria. Rentboy ain't Google, that's for sure!

 

I haven't tried it, but the Boolean "AND" might confuse it. Try putting it in all caps: "LA Hairy AND Hung", or to be even more specific, "(LA Hairy) AND Hung.

In googlesearch, putting a + in front of a word is supposed to force it in the reply (a forced ADD). A minus sign, "-" is supposed to force a

"not" (or, more formally, "AND NOT").

 

Of course, given the educational level of my cohort here, you already know this.

[tsgarp]

Rentboy.com is something of a design catastrophe. Yet it's what we've got...

[maninsoma]

Rentboy.com is something of a design catastrophe. Yet it's what we've got...

 

And it isn't even a consistent catastrophe. Just this morning when I first visited Rentboy, United States was not available from the drop down menu. When I selected Advanced Search, then I was able to select San Francisco, CA. RB then displayed the ads in my area. I decided to check the box to limit the ads to the ones who were online at the moment, and the filtering worked. I clicked on one ad, viewed it, and then hit back. The "online" box was still checked but now I was seeing all ads in my area. The only way to get the "online" filter back was to uncheck the box and then check it again. Sometimes RB functions like this, and other times it functions properly. Sometimes I can apply an age filter, view multiple ads, and the filter sticks; other times I have to remove the filtering between each ad view because it looks like it's still being applied even though it isn't.

 

One thing I miss is being able to change the setting so that each ad viewed popped up in a new window. With that feature turned on, at least I was able to scroll through a list and view ads without having to reload pages after checking and unchecking boxes. It still would sometimes misbehave (such as not allowing me to select any location in the United States), but it was far more functional than it is now.

 

I know, I know. I'm a broken record. It's just that I've never seen another website as poorly coded as Rentboy.

[+ Gar1eth]

The filters are hit and miss for me.

 

Gman

[+ poolboy48220]

And it isn't even a consistent catastrophe. Just this morning when I first visited Rentboy, United States was not available from the drop down menu.

That happens to me quite often, I've just found your trick (going to 'advanced search') to get around it.

[kjun]

(If you don't include a minimum rate, you get all the ask mes.)

Thank you for this advice. My problem was not including a minimum.

[Kevin Slater]

Thank you for this advice. My problem was not including a minimum.

 

Glad it's now working for you.

 

Kevin Slater