BBRT Username Alert

[Treehugger]

My two cents...I had an unpaid membership with bbrts for a few years then one day it was gone. I never understood why considering that all the other bareback sites kept me on their books no matter how long between log-ins. I was irritated enough not to go back on it and now that I hear what ErosWired has had to put up with I will stay away. I say solidarity as both barebackers and consumers!

[Leyva]

Ive had a membership for years, and my account got terminated for a bullshit reason. I emailed them as well, and they were incredibly rude to me. I also had just bought a membership. I had to contact my credit card company to get the charge reversed. Bad practices all around tbh. 

 

[J0nn1eb0y]

On 7/29/2020 at 12:18 AM, BootmanLA said:

Playing Devil's Advocate here: is it possible that something else triggered the warning to you?

You mention you'd "just" paid for a membership renewal. Could it be that something on their server end is set to that if a membership is renewed and it contains a banned word, that triggers the block you encountered?

My hunch it was the quickconnect @eroswired said he had just launched and disappeared.

[J0nn1eb0y]

On 7/29/2020 at 8:20 PM, Treehugger said:

...I had an unpaid membership with bbrts for a few years then one day it was gone. I never understood why considering that all the other bareback sites kept me on their books no matter how long between log-ins.

Gentlemen, Its the legal (Discovery) and regulatory (Data Protection) environment. 

Having data (illegal real or perceived) or unused data (dormant accounts) is costly and takes resources to manage. Hence words get replaced as  euphemisms "get to the point" or substituted Gin and Tonic.  

[ErosWired]

13 hours ago, J0nn1eb0y said:

Gentlemen, Its the legal (Discovery) and regulatory (Data Protection) environment. 

Having data (illegal real or perceived) or unused data (dormant accounts) is costly and takes resources to manage. Hence words get replaced as  euphemisms "get to the point" or substituted Gin and Tonic.  

A company, that is in the business of serving communication data between a wide range of disparate users, faces certain costs related to outside forces that wish to regulate the communications that take place between the users whom are its reason for existing. It is a business, not a charity. Compliance with law is not optional, and although the degree to which activity on a site may infringe on law may be questionable, actual penalty at law is not the greatest risk - the cost of defending against lawsuit is more likely to take down a site than direct governmental action. Therefore, what sites are faced with, and reacting to, is the difficulty of having enough capital to defend against legal assault against their way of doing business. Those costs are therefore a cost of doing business, but rather than trying to find ways to address the issue directly, it appears that some of these companies are instead turning against their own customer base to try to meet technical compliance with the law.

Remember, these companies are in the business of facilitating communication between individuals, and specifically, salacious communication between individuals in pursuit of intimate contact. Don't bother sugar-coating it. A chocolate-covered turd still has the same filling. They can lop off perfectly good words from the English language all day until we can't even form sentences, and it still won't change the fact that the message we're sending to each other is "I'm horny and I want to ass-fuck". Or, regrettably, "I want to get high, where can I find some [substance]?" (More on this in a moment.)

So essentially, these companies are doing their damnedest to find ways to prevent their userbase - their reason for existing - from communicating the very thing they want to communicate using the words designated for that communication. And as soon as new words are substituted, they'll prevent those, too. Whack. A. Mole. The result? The companies cease to serve the function that they were created to serve. Their customers - their userbase - becomes increasingly disaffected and, finding that the service makes it harder rather than easier to find fuck, abandons it and looks elsewhere. Are the companies doing themselves a service by adopting content censorship policies? You tell me. More and more, apps will not allow profile pics that are not fully clothed and above the waist, with no hint of sexuality. When the apps force us all to wrap ourselves up in brown paper and mutter bland lines to each other, they're done.

So simply saying that 'hey, it's the data management/data protection environment, that's what we've got' is only acceptable if you're willing to live with being told what you can say, where and when you can say it, and to whom, by people whose values may be completely different from your own. That's the environment we're faced with, and it must be resisted.

Restistance starts at home, by the way, motherfuckers. Last night out of the blue, I got a hit on Growlr. I wasn't even online. Some dude under the handle 'Idontknow' send me the following message:

"Get me high"

I replied that he must have sent his message to the wrong person because I had nothing to do with any substance that would get him high, and couldn't help him with that. He replied with "Then change your name, you dumb shit. Wired. God, stupid people annoy me. Don't message me back. Go ahead and report me to the app authorities. I dare you."

I blocked him. I wasn't going to waste my time explaining that I have been using ErosWired ('wired' meaning 'electronically connected') considerably longer than the drug culture's current exploitation of the word, and that just because he used it to mean something doesn't mean that everybody else on the planet has to suddenly accept his new meaning. Except, I probably fucking do, because men are probably totally misjudging me out there and assuming I'm into drugs just by my username when I'm sober as a judge and always have been.

So this fuckery with twisting perfectly good words into smutty pretzels that can't be used in public anymore? Cut that shit out. Don't speak in code; don't speak quietly; speak in VERY LOUD VOICES and SPEAK WITH YOUR VOTE to change the draconian environment that has landed us with FOSTA/SESTA and all the rest of the Thought Police. Check to see how your representatives voted on these things, and if they went the wrong way, vote them out.

Until this off-with-their-heads environment is ended, the technology companies are going to be playing defense, likely at the expense of civil liberties, because it may be our voices, but it's their medium and they're not taking the rap for our smack-talking. Don't expect them to save us.

But by the same token, if they're going to go out of their way to dick me over, they can't expect any loyalty from me either. I haven't been back to BBRTS in months. They had the audacity to send a note this week to my eros.wired@gmail address saying "We've missed you". Yeah. I'll bet. And you'll keep on missing that subscription that you are never getting again.

 

[BBhungbtmguy]

I just learned that my BBRT account was banned.  I followed up with a phone call to BBRT to find out why. The rep said that the account was banned by a supervisor and that I should send an email to inquire.  After not receiving a response from the email, I sent a follow up email and my email bounced back - they blocked my email address!  I called today to speak to a supervisor, but first had to explain the situation to the rep who answered.  He hung the phone up with no explanation.  I called back and spoke to Clark who seemed really angry.  He said that I am not welcome on the site.  I asked him what I did to get banned, and he said that I know what I did wrong.  He would not elaborate any further and hung up on me.  I couldn't believe how they conduct themselves - like 13 year olds.  I am not a troublemaker.  I am not an escort or a drug dealer.  Did someone have a vendetta against me and report something to them that was untrue?  I have no idea - the whole scenario is so off the wall.  

[veryversguy4fun]

I have seen guys names like wirednipples and they are still on there. Or in their profile saying my nipples are wired to my cock and nothing is done about it. I had the same problem. Back when the local party section was working I had posted an ad and because I had 1 letter t capitalized they closed my account saying I was talking about drugs. Really because of 1 capitalized T

Edited January 26, 2022 by veryversguy4fun
Misspelled words

[partying.hard]

Extremely rude staff.

[barefootboy]

On 12/7/2020 at 8:28 PM, BBhungbtmguy said:

I just learned that my BBRT account was banned.  I followed up with a phone call to BBRT to find out why. The rep said that the account was banned by a supervisor and that I should send an email to inquire.  After not receiving a response from the email, I sent a follow up email and my email bounced back - they blocked my email address!  I called today to speak to a supervisor, but first had to explain the situation to the rep who answered.  He hung the phone up with no explanation.  I called back and spoke to Clark who seemed really angry.  He said that I am not welcome on the site.  I asked him what I did to get banned, and he said that I know what I did wrong.  He would not elaborate any further and hung up on me.  I couldn't believe how they conduct themselves - like 13 year olds.  I am not a troublemaker.  I am not an escort or a drug dealer.  Did someone have a vendetta against me and report something to them that was untrue?  I have no idea - the whole scenario is so off the wall.  

I question their actions also. 

[SmoothATLVers]

On 12/7/2020 at 8:28 PM, BBhungbtmguy said:

I just learned that my BBRT account was banned.  I followed up with a phone call to BBRT to find out why. The rep said that the account was banned by a supervisor and that I should send an email to inquire.  After not receiving a response from the email, I sent a follow up email and my email bounced back - they blocked my email address!  I called today to speak to a supervisor, but first had to explain the situation to the rep who answered.  He hung the phone up with no explanation.  I called back and spoke to Clark who seemed really angry.  He said that I am not welcome on the site.  I asked him what I did to get banned, and he said that I know what I did wrong.  He would not elaborate any further and hung up on me.  I couldn't believe how they conduct themselves - like 13 year olds.  I am not a troublemaker.  I am not an escort or a drug dealer.  Did someone have a vendetta against me and report something to them that was untrue?  I have no idea - the whole scenario is so off the wall.  

Had the same experience as you....2x. When I inquired after 2nd time gave no reason and threatened me with "prosecution" if I ever tried to join again. BBRT had no problem taking my money though 🤬🤬