Do Most Escorts And Members Feel Like Devon Hunter Feels?

[JC954]

I was wasting a lot of time on twitter the other day and one of the escorts who I follow had this exchange with another tweeter. It got me to wondering if Devon's view of the community here, is also shared by other escorts who participate here. It also got me to wondering if non-escorts here have come across this type of "tread lightly" caution when posting here as well.

 

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Hopefully folks will chime in with their own personal thoughts about this and maybe experiences which they have had over the years.

[JC954]

I feel I should treat it more like a Zagat than a Bible.

 

Wow I had forgotten all about Zagat with all the other online resources.

 

btw.....Here's a link to @tylerthebadwolf . It's too bad he's terrified to visit here as he's actually quite hot.

 

http://www.rentboy.com/Listing.aspx?lid=413809&type=escort

[+ poolboy48220]

I 'tread lightly' in any internet discussion board, including one that was a social one internal to my company, so it was your co-workers - not anonymous - that participated. I lost interest long ago in arguing on the internet.

[+ Robster]

Tyler seems to have gotten over his fear, since he posted a thread in the Escort Travels forum yesterday.

 

Rob

[+ purplekow]

This should probably be in the escort section. I question the motivation for the quotes as the question could have been asked without this specific example. I cannot help but wonder if Devon's point is being made by the OP.

[Steven_Draker]

"the constant threat of getting "a bad reputation" that will "ruin your career" if you disagree with what they say"

 

Not in my case. I'm not afraid of disagreeing with you. And yet I have such a bad rep.

 

As for the "syrupy" comment ... yeah, man ... I'm on a verge of a sugar coma !

 

[+ purplekow]

"the constant threat of getting "a bad reputation" that will "ruin your career" if you disagree with what they say"

 

Not in my case. I'm not afraid of disagreeing with you. And yet I have such a bad rep.

 

As for the "syrupy" comment ... yeah, man ... I'm on a verge of a sugar coma !

That probably explains your sweet ass.

[big-n-tall]

Tyler seems to have gotten over his fear, since he posted a thread in the Escort Travels forum yesterday.

 

Rob

 

He joined (to post his schedule) but he may still be reluctantly to post on topics.

 

As been said... people on the internet, not just this board have their opinions right or wrong. Because of the anonymity and the fact most people aren't going to hunt the poster down, people will say just about anything. Which is sad if you read some of the stuff people say in forums and comments sections. It's one thing to be passionate about something, but geez... some of the stuff is down right uninformed, ridiculous and/or hateful. Of course, there are always posters who raise above the stupidity and post good, relevant information.

 

I must admit, some of the things I read on this board have me scratching my head sometimes. It's not the worse things I've read in a forum or comments section, but I'm sometimes surprised.

 

So I can see why an escort may be reluctant to post, especially if it may hurt their business.

[wklucas]

Well my total lack of appeal for nose ring piercings aside, I still did my part to welcome Tyler.....in his travel post, I pointed out that he had posted an incorrect link to his own website......he courteously thanked me for bringing it to his attention !!!!.....a display of good manners by Tyler.....which Draker utterly failed to exhibit in a similar circumstance....just the facts.

[Irtwo]

Its an odd dynamic because the escorts who post here are really the only ones who aren't anonymous.

[jimboivyo]

I would be more worried with those here who stalk escorts and use traded info they get here as ammunition

[down_to_business]

Its just like a politician. Never take a position on any issue because every time you do, you alienate the other half that disagree with you.

 

I agree with what Devon said. In most cases it is a mistake for escorts to post on this forum. In many cases, however, they also get to post anonymously, through proxies, through fake duplicate accounts, etc.. so their real point of views do come across under the guise of one of the regular folk. How else can you explain the outward hostility to clients in many responses and the dual standards of how when an escort cancels on a client its because they had a good reason and when a client cancels on an escort its because they are soulless, immoral, evil douchebags (just to name one example).

[marylander1940]

Tyler seems to have gotten over his fear, since he posted a thread in the Escort Travels forum yesterday.

 

Rob

 

And Devon even dared to speak up against Sean Cody's way of treating models.

 

http://www.devonhunter.info/archives/1625/

[marylander1940]

"the constant threat of getting "a bad reputation" that will "ruin your career" if you disagree with what they say"

 

Not in my case. I'm not afraid of disagreeing with you. And yet I have such a bad rep.

 

As for the "syrupy" comment ... yeah, man ... I'm on a verge of a sugar coma !

 

We are aware of it, things get catty sometimes in the forum.

 

usually escorts are vague or very respectful like Juan Vancouver.

[JC954]

I question the motivation for the quotes as the question could have been asked without this specific example. I cannot help but wonder if Devon's point is being made by the OP.

 

I'm not sure what you mean. I only posted the twitter feed exchange to facilitate my question to the board. Without this "specific example" I'm not sure how I would have presented the question.

 

My apologies if I selected the incorrect forum to post in. Please feel free to move this to the appropriate location.

[MiamiLooker]

Some escorts are concerned about how their posts may affect their business and are very adept at subtly working the forum to their advantage; others, transparently, not so adept. And still others don’t seem to care.

[JC954]

And Devon even dared to speak up against Sean Cody's way of treating models.

 

http://www.devonhunter.info/archives/1625/

 

I'm not sure how a five year old post is relevant to this thread?

[JC954]

and are very adept at subtly working the forum to their advantage

 

Maybe this adeptness should extend to twitter and all social media?

[corndog]

For an escort, I think that the decision to participate here needs to be considered very carefully. Everything that they say effects their brand, either positively or negatively. Unfortunately, Devon's point is fairly valid; these are dangerous waters for an escort to swim in. For a few of our favorite escort posters, they have managed to enhance their image here by being consistently diplomatic and unflappable when things start to get a little nasty.

 

On a related note, I've noticed an interesting phenomenon: in a long thread with many participants, if just one or two posters start getting a little negative or bitchy (sometimes unintentionally), their targets tend to conclude that these voices represent the prevailing opinion, and feel like "the forum is ganging up on me." Usually, it's best to just let these comments slide off your back, and resist the urge to respond defensively. This is especially true for escorts posting here, as the risk of the discussion turning ugly just isn't worth it.

 

Sadly, Devon's twitter comments reinforce this second point. He says "They say that they want to know what we're thinking, but they don't." I don't blame him for coming to this conclusion, but it lumps all of us into one monolithic personality. In reality, I think that 98% of us are truly interested in understanding the escort's perspective, but a very vocal 2% of the posters seem to scare away a lot of open discussion with overly critical, judgmental attacks.

[Guest ChrisW]

The forum is a bastion of wonderful people with kind hearts who are completely rational. I have no idea what he could be talking about

[JC954]

The forum is a bastion of wonderful people with kind hearts who are completely rational. I have no idea what he could be talking about

 

LOL!

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[Juan Vancouver]

"the constant threat of getting "a bad reputation" that will "ruin your career" if you disagree with what they say"

 

Its just like a politician. Never take a position on any issue because every time you do, you alienate the other half that disagree with you.

 

In my case I have to remind myself that this is not politics. I am not interested in getting everyone's vote. I am not interested in being liked by everyone. I am not interested in pleasing people or appearing nice.

 

What I am really interested in is in sharing the personal way in which I engage in this profession, clearly stating what I see as desirable, unequivocally sharing what I find to be unacceptable. I HAVE to take a stand on things, which is why -for example- I am so vocal about the fact that I do not charge for sex acts, but for my time; that sex acts if they take place, are for free. Yes, half of the people (Maybe more like 75 percent of the readers) might find that this makes me a shifty douchebag to be avoided like the plague. But there will be a small percentage of people who will read my posts, agree with them, feel that something clicked and know that we are a perfect match. Out of that small percentage, an even smaller percentage will be in position to meet me because of logistics.

 

Which is to say that I am not here to drum up business. The business I get from this forum is not significant. I am here to share with whomever wants to hear, that there is a different way to look at this job. A dignified, loving, caring, fun, passionate way of doing things that demands respect and communication from both sides.

 

People will disagree with you, twist your words to make it sound you said exactly the opposite of what you meant, deliberately lie to prove their point, engage in vendettas lasting years, speak behind your back and judge you. They will judge you all the time.

 

But that's life. People do that in real life too. The incredible gift of coming here for me is the opportunity to talk frankly about issues that interest me intensely and can seldom be discussed anywhere else.

 

And if things get catty, all you can do is nod, smile and remove yourself from the fight.

[+ purplekow]

I'm not sure what you mean. I only posted the twitter feed exchange to facilitate my question to the board. Without this "specific example" I'm not sure how I would have presented the question.

 

My apologies if I selected the incorrect forum to post in. Please feel free to move this to the appropriate location.

It could been simply stated: An escort was quoted in his twitter account as having said: " " . Opinions.

Since Devon has not yet responded, perhaps he may not care. I know full well that when you put something on the internet, any idea of privacy is lunacy and if he did not want it quoted he should have made the statement privately, but it still seems that by quoting him here, you are guaranteeing that at least some of the people here will feel slighted by him. You also guaranteed that many people who would never have seen those quotes did and while I do not know your motivations, fpr someone who is quoted as saying the one needs to be adept on internet posting, I think this question's format was either not adeptly or, more likely, exacted in a way to put someone's feet to the fire.

[JC954]

It could been simply stated: An escort was quoted in his twitter account as having said: " " . Opinions.

Since Devon has not yet responded, perhaps he may not care. I know full well that when you put something on the internet, any idea of privacy is lunacy and if he did not want it quoted he should have made the statement privately, but it still seems that by quoting him here, you are guaranteeing that at least some of the people here will feel slighted by him. You also guaranteed that many people who would never have seen those quotes did and while I do not know your motivations, fpr someone who is quoted as saying the one needs to be adept on internet posting, I think this questions format was either not adept but more likely, exacted in a way to put someone's feet to the fire.

 

I respect your defensive posture toward Devon. But when you generalize and compartmentalize an entire forum community into a 140 character response to a query about who people are....well, you might just want to expect a little blow-back.

[Epigonos]

In my, not so humble opinion, the entire idea behind this thread is overblown. This site is NOT the real world it is small website on which individual post anonymous statements and questions regarding escorting. I find in extremely difficult to comprehend why people become excited, hurt, humiliated, disgruntled, offended, etc. etc. etc. by what some other anonymous poster has to say about them. Posters, PLEASE, feel free to call me anything that make you happy – call me a dumb shit, call me an asshole, call me a stupid old faggot or anything else. In the end I don’t know 95%+ of the people who post on this site nor do they know me so why, in the final analysis, should I give a shit what they think of me. If you are, however, so fragile that you do care then it might be best that you don’t post here.

 

Now, as far as the idea that escorts needs to tread softly on this site because they might offend a current or a possible future client that’s nonsense. Should an escort be frightened of offending ONE or TWO current or future clients; if they are they are over reacting. Most of us who hire do so for a multitude of reasons but I find it hard to believe that one of those reasons is based on how the escort is perceived on this site. Again this site isn’t that important. Do I agree with Devon Hunter’s opinions on many things – absolutely not? Now if I were in North Carolina would I engage him for a get together – probably? Why you ask? Because he is a hot guy who is opinionated and he would probably be great fun fighting with verbally over a meal and then playing together at his place or mine latter.

 

Seriously guy – kick back, smile, have a drink and enjoy this place for exactly what it is NOT; the real world.