It is my intention that this room serve as a respite from the front room. This is a place for verified dancers to advertise themselves, and for guys that appreciate them to get to know each other.
There is no moderation, but you also must have a current VIP membership to access this room.
Interesting concept, will, you insist on civility here, that would be an upgrade in my opinion.
Like it conceptually, hopefully it works as planned.
twentyfive, I don't insist on anything, because who am I to judge what is civil?
I do, however, know that most "Trolls" are non-vip.
I, for one, will be spending most of my time here in the VIP hoping to find out REAL information about the strippers and clubs here.
Can Juice aliases post here?
Thanks for the Christmas gift Founder. Hopefully it works out as you have intended.
Thank you founder!
My one problem with this, is I kinda want to talk to everybody. I don’t really want to be back and forth. And I wouldn’t want it to take away from the main board. Just thinking out loud.
I really appreciate the effort that you put in on this project. I don’t understand trolls, I can’t see their purposes and really don’t like that they waste my time by misleading me. So thanks again
Seems worth a try. Happy holidays VIPs!
I like this idea
@founder By having a dancers only section do you think it might affect the front room and VIP sections and make them into echo chambers ?
I like the concept. The trolls have a playground to play on while all the grownups can hang out in a different area of the park.
I think dancers will try to drum up business here. We'll see
Like everyone else said, I hope this works as intended. My main hope is that this doesn't give some of these trolls that look like they spend all their time on this site the incentive to write a review.
As someone who thinks the trolls are the biggest annoyance on the board I’m willing to give this a try. It probably won’t be perfect but as long as its improved, I’m down.
Question: I'm curious, I just checked a few profiles, how is it that Mack truck is a verified member yet long time posters and reviewers, Jack, 25, myself, are not?
I'm 99.9% sure Jack and 25 are legit and I know that I am.
Don't worry too much about guys being verified. It's only for dancers at this point.
I verified you fwiw
I was just curious.
Anyway, it's good to have a subforum that isn't open to the whole world.
BTW, I'm a pac 12 guy, but I bet on THEE (pause) Ohio State University in the Rose bowl.
@founder Following up on OSU’s question I asked you what does verified member mean an why are some folks who are long time posters unverified and some of the new posters are ?
Lol, I can just about 100% guarantee you placed a good bet but there's always unknown factors, injuries etc but you should be good. :-)
WA is OVERRATED
Wazzu would have been a different story.
Buckeyes by 3 touchdowns
PAC 12 absolutely sucks.
25,. The only people "verified" are dancers and mongers I've met, and anyone that has purchased VIP in the past
I came to the conclusion that the labels are currently applied this way
Verified = paid for a VIP membership at least once
Unverified = never paid for a VIP membership
I agree the Huskies offense is vastly overrated but the defense is actually pretty decent. 27-14
Thank you for that interesting
^ And you've just been verified. :-)
I am the verified King of the Trolls! and a Troll Pimp
This sounds like a good thing
I like the new changes. Thank you Founder!
I think the idea of a dancers only section is good since apparently many dancers are often put-off by the tone of the discussion board
Thanks for the changes!
Splitting the non-dancer discussion board into two will take some getting used to - as Muddy mentioned I rather have all discussions in one place vs having to jump b/w the two.
As TFP mentioned, this may encourage trolls to write s fake review a month, but at least it's making it harder for them - also there are non VIPs that are good discussion board contributors and now one has to be jumping b/w boards to find the good threads - still on the fence about this.
My 2-cents.
Also - if one starts a thread, you would like it to be read by everyone and get feedback from everyone, meaning you may have to post it on both sides
If you want everyone to see it, simply post it on the front room
I'm thinking the rule would be this. If you just want a lot of discussion, post it in Front Room. If you are asking a legitimate question, post it in VIP.
Warrior has it correct
You do not need to post in both
VIPs can see the front room
I like this a lot. It's not perfect, but anything that makes trolls work harder to use multiple accounts is going to cut down on the crap posts.
I'm less than thrilled with this Verified/Non-Verified stuff. Not to sound too whiny, but after writing 178 reviews of 123 clubs over 9 years, I'd have thought that I'd earned a "Verified" starting position.
Fixed it rick
Thank you founder.
I like the new layout
whoooaaa... i like it
how do i become a verified dancer though? did i miss something?
April, you need to be listed in the dancers directory. Are you cool with that?
Is there an advantage to being verified? I can name 60 TUSCL members that have met me.
No advantage as of now, but if you want to send me a list I'll verify them
Hmm. I can see the VIP discussion but my profile says that I'm "not verified." Founder could you double check-- I have 167 published reviews and other contributions.
EM
VIP does not equal VERIFIED. They are not related.
What Jimmy said
I love the remodel founder. It looks great!
Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
founder... Thanks for the upgrade.
What if our VIP status falls off? Will we not be able to access these boards anymore? Can people who've never written a review at least read these discussions?
VIP is always available for reviews or by subscription. This board is not available to non VIP members
It motivated me to write another review, so it seems to be working. In a few months I’ll need to find some new places to review. That’ll be a good reason to take my first SC road trip.
Founder is playing 3D chess and here we are thinking he’s fucking around with deck chairs.
So you're saying at a certain point in the future, if I don't write any more reviews, I won't have access to this section of the board?
^sounds correct
I like the new format
Liwet, either pay or contribute. There's nothing free in this world.
^^^well said. Liwet that's how it's always been in terms of access to the review section. Contribute or pay to gain access. This section is now just like that.
All I know is, I enjoy a section without Nicole, Icey, or SJG spamming the shit up. Only issue now is there's less content in here to read. But it's brand new at this point so I'll see how it turns out.
Free SJG
Don’t release the hounds ;)
Haha SJG doesn't want to be freed. He's had all these years to just write one review, still won't do it. And when you try to get him to leave the confines of his mom's basement and get out to TJ or Vegas he starts screaming about his privacy walls and dead squirrels. So I think he's content to keep talking to himself in the front room.
At least Icey has shown interest in writing a review, when before all he used to say was he didn't want to since LE was watching the board. Seems to have changed his tune with the addition of this VIP section.
^ He wants to be able to pick fights with everyone bet he makes up a review he’ll prolly use his trap baby alias to get into the dancers dressing room too, the only solution to that turd is if he shows up in VIP put him on ignore.
Still seems like a lot of trolls on here. IMHO founder needs to tweek things more, say by restricting the VIP room to members who regularly post reviews. Just a thought
Lewit acts like something has been taken away, but we have been given more
Thank you Founder. Nothing is perfect but appreciate your making the effort!
Food for thought it can be great or it can be terrible. All in what you make of it. Fuck it. Enjoy the ride...
If I understand correctly, this VIP forum cannot be crawled by search engines and that's a nice feature. I've always enjoyed the lack of hard moderation and the diverse subjects that come up from a diverse crowd with diverse opinions.
I like it so far. Seems to have the desired effect
Thanks founder! Getting rid of some of the nonsense, great move. (Or at least they can go plain their own room, lol)
Thanks for fixing the "Last Comment" link
Well if bigdicksammy is in here its not foolproof.
^^^^truth.
Lately I've seen some absolutely proper shit reviews get accepted so this was bound to happen.
If you see shit reviews posted, please let me know and I will delete the reviewers account.
Thanks F
Good riddance
Interesting idea. I'm wondering if members will also use this Room to escape the Trolls.