I'm an "old-timer". I'm closer to my last than my first rodeo. I've been a hobbyist - off and on - for about 9 years. First on ASPD for nine years (may it R.I.P with our thanks) and now occasionally on ECCIE, eraps or ourhome2.net.
Through the various boards, I have met and enjoyed many beautiful and generous ladies I would never otherwise have met.
I am grateful for their sharing initmate moments - of their person and lives - with me.
The one thing I have come to know with a certainty is that hobbyists and providers are all "just people". If cut, we do all bleed. We all have feelings. We all have hopes, needs, fears and worries. We all have good qualities and bad.
We need to try to understand one another, raise one another up - not tear one another down. Even when we seek comfort in the hobby. (And I am not at all ashamed or regretful of being a "hobbyist" and I judge no "Provider" less a person for choosing the profession.)
We may be strangers at first, but we are all human. And there is no escape from the human condition we all share.
That said ... The boards are certainly a better place when the truth is posted. A bad review or negative comment - or just a note about certain services not offered has helped me make informed choices. It is what makes the boards viable.
But there is no need for persistent, personally targeted meaness and vindictiveness.
Being civil and considerate, when posting material - even if essentially negative - enhances its effectiveness - hopefully, without causing undue upset to the Provider.
The pseudo-anonymous environment of the Internet can tempt us to be awful "e-persons" we really aren't in real life - we must be on guard against that temptation.
Think and reflect before posting.
By all means be truthful, but remember we are all God's children - even when we hobby and provide.