One thing I haven't seen personally is a member getting banned, or having their handle deleted for excessively, compulsively, disrespectfully berating a provider.

Is there a double standard? Are RAs "fair game" for abusive stalking on the board.

Perhaps I just haven't been around long enough to see how it's handled. Thankfully in the 2 yrs since I've been reading these pages I haven't seen a member who has such a vendetta until recently.

cut & pasted from the guidelines.....

4. Flames, personal attacks, slurs, threats, hate, inappropriate content, posting of supposed real names or addresses are subject to removal.
Off topic posts, or threads that have run amuck are subject to removal or locking.

Do not post private inboxes or email without permission from the sender. Keep your interactions private.

5. This is NOT a free speech board. Posts may be deleted or locked at the sole discretion of moderators and administrators. If you are frustrated by this policy, we also have a board with much free-er speech (NOT free there either): the Underground forum at .

While we do believe in the principle of free speech, we do not believe it is our obligation to fund the bandwidth for the world's opinions.

Two roads diverged and I chose the road down south

First of all, we are here to discuss RAs and not other RBers. Guideline #4 presumably refers to RBers in the forum, and not Providers.

Secondly, who is to judge what constitutes "excessively, compulsively, disrespectfully berating a provider" ? The member may simply be passionate about an adverse experience with that RA. What one calls "berating" may in fact be an honest and accurate appraisal. Opposing views are welcome to join in and give their different experience. We all can use the ALERT link if the post doesn't conform to forum guidelines or if there are extenuating circumstances for editing or deletion.

Thirdly, most handles are not deleted, but rather the handle is banned from posting in one or more specific forums. To detect that a handle is only banned, you'd have to search all of RB (VIP, private, and public) to find no further occurrences of that handle. There are reasons for handle deletions and reasons for forum banning. This place is quite tolerant and it seems to take repeated substantial violations before banning takes place. Handle deletions seem to occur most often when the handle was constituted to mock another handle or if an alias appears in the same thread in support of the poster's opinion.

'*Alert* support desk about this review'

Avoid the drama. Focus on what we johns are here at the first place: Getting Laid!

After all, there is nothing inherently injunctive in the General or Forum Guidelines about an RA with an RB handle. I assume she would be allowed to fully participate pursuant to said guidelines.

Then, any post that verbally attacks or even provides identifying information beyond that published by her or her authorized representative is subject to removal and the handle, to deletion, per General Guidelines #4 and #10, respectively.

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