All of the agencies and providers are welcome to come back. They can submit a request for provider or agency status whenever they choose.
Originally Posted by dearhunter
And that has been the deal since day one of this, and remains so today.
RJ,
You (the collective you here) were asked how we could make your UTR situation here work within the necessities and requirements of this website. No one wanted to put in the time and effort to run their "agency" business to comply with those necessities in order to advertise here. At least not for the long term. That's just the facts no matter how you choose to spin it.
I'm very sorry you didn't like "way" it was implemented here. We are supposedly all adults here and most likely have some basic understanding of business vs legal requirements. We did, and continue to, implement measures to protect this website as a whole and to keep it running so you all have a place to come to, and the freedom to continue to bitch about how mistreated you have been.
It was offered numerous times starting with Col Z at the time and continuing with EW, for someone to step up and run the little UTR empire here. And to do it within the guidelines for age verification and Verified Provider status, just as numerous agencies did, and do, across the site today. And with someone doing so for the long term would have kept your little deal here all safe and sound. No one seriously took those reigns. But somehow requiring that we know who is being advertised on our website and that they are of proper legal age, and then kept track of with a Verified Provider account, that is Eccie's storm troopers and Napoleon style, jack booted thugs shoving that down your throat? Gotcha.
Now since you brought up Senor El Gato, he is and has been a good man and mod here, no question. But he has never been "out of charge". No mod is over or higher/lower than another anywhere on this website. He has no more or less authority than any other mod. And he knows that. I don't need to put him in charge, as he has always been in charge, as have all other mods here. All 50+ mods across the entire site get their marching orders from the same place, an area of the site you don't have access to, but they all do.
I anticipate none of you will have problems with El Gato or Biomed or Mokoa or Von, IF you work within the Forum Guidelines, which are here in case there are any questions
http://www.eccie.net/announcement.php?f=5. If you decide not to do that, then I would anticipate you guys will have major problems with them. But that is you making that decision, not the stormtrooper, napoleonic jack booted thugs. If you choose to not follow the guidelines you all agreed to follow when you signed up your accounts, then we will eventually choose not to have you as members here, but again that will be each individual's choice to make. But there will have been plenty of warnings and points to remind you before you reach that point.
If you feel that is treating STX like singled-out, stupid, red-headed stepchildren...best untwist your panties or move on, because that's the way it works all across this site.