This is a punting forum but we welcome prοssies especially if they contribute something useful for punters.
They’re also welcome to lurk (maybe they can also learn something, who knows, if they find something that a lot of punters consider poor service — bad hand jobs being a recent example — they might do something about it, even if it is only discussing how to improve among themselves). But as it is indeed a punting forum, we don’t welcome prοssies who come on here to run down punters, tout or disrupt the this of the board — they have their own forum for that.
It’s called Saafe.
Now I don’t think I have
ever in my life been rude to a prοssie during a booking or during the comms, and that’s over hundreds of punts. I don’t think I’ve ever posted on Saafe. Some prοssies of course like to complain if they get a bad review, but that is surely a reason to improve their game rather than attack punters. They shouldn’t stand for rudeness during a punt and of course should always report any incidents of criminality, as we also do here. They may not like our locker room chat on here, or the roasting we give them when they abuse the privilege of membership here, but the rules are clear (and it’s rarely anything personal, at least from myself). One of the reasons I don’t look on Saafe very often is I get very quickly bored by their wittering, but that’s fine — they’re entitled to chat among themselves.
What surprises me is their shitty attitude to anyone having a look. How would prοssies feel if they logged on to UKP and saw message like this:
Hidden Image/Members OnlyHonestly dearies, even if you wanted to ban punters completely, a big rude notice on your front window is hardly endearing.
Can you imagine a John Lewis staff room that had a notice outside saying, “Fuck off customers with your shitty attitude, this is a staff room!” (By the way, it’s childsplay to read your blather forum anyway, so if you must be publicly rude you’re not only biting the hand that feeds you and making yourselves look bad, but hardly accomplishing the aim of keeping punters out.) If it’s a ban it makes fuck all difference, so why get yourselves into a lather??
Saafe used to be run by quite a moderate, sensible woman so maybe they will take note.
For us punters, I think we have to think kindly about it. Their brains are wired differently and it seems they’re maybe more subject to hissy fits than men. But remember they’re not
only made of “sugar and spice and all things nice”.
(cue calming music)