Bedpage

[QUOTE=MrToftt;5473452]Alot of the ads with fake posts and shills are under the same name, J.[/QUOTE]Sounds like some dude took over Bedpage advertising so that now providers are all subjected to a single posting format. Typical of monopoly business abuse so that to discourage independency and forced to go through a single system.

[URL]https://honolulu.bedpage.com/TherapeuticMassage/1481-south-king-street/9796595.html[/URL]

This has to be the weirdest.

Who is Jonathan and why is his name in a lot of the ads?

[QUOTE=TrialnError;5474111]Who is Jonathan and why is his name in a lot of the ads?[/QUOTE]My guess is that he is a dude who creates and maintains a lot of these adds for the girls for a fee. Many of them may not be computer literate or literate in English. He may have to use one name as the poster.

[QUOTE=TrialnError;5474111]Who is Jonathan and why is his name in a lot of the ads?[/QUOTE]I don't think it's the users at all. I can imagine that when the provider submits their ad any empty field is automatically populated with these predefined names or descriptions from the system. Like "I am a from the south and love it. ". Now, why BP chose those words, no clue. But the odd word selection sounds like they were translated from Chinese, for example. Just my $. 02.

Seen some ads with "verified" tags. What does verified mean? And who does the verifying?

Rog.

What happened to all their adds.

[QUOTE=ReallyOldGuy;5514200]Seen some ads with "verified" tags. What does verified mean? And who does the verifying?

Rog.[/QUOTE]That means that user sent photo I'd copy (drivers license, state I'd or passport etc) to site admin.

That's it.

That never means person in pic is real or certain guaranteed service.

Hmmm. Bedpage changed it's format again, no gallery view now. WTF?

[QUOTE=MrCrowley;5655055]Hmmm. Bedpage changed it's format again, no gallery view now. WTF?[/QUOTE]Looks ok to me. Although I got a grey background now instead of red.

[QUOTE=MrCrowley;5655055]Hmmm. Bedpage changed it's format again, no gallery view now. WTF?[/QUOTE]Actually I'm not sure about the new format. Looks like all the ads from that one stable are gone now. Seems a little cleaner.

Last time Bedpage changed formats and I found work-arounds, they were no longer necessary by the time the post was visible to all. But it never hurts to try.

The new BedPage format has me really confused.

This is the bookmark that I've been using for months now to get to BedPage.

[URL]https://honolulu.bedpage.com/TherapeuticMassage[/URL]

Now, it doesn't provide a "Gallery" view and doesn't go any further back than Monday of this week. Lots of ads that "were there" are now "not there", as well.

A little URL hacking uncovered this link.

[URL]https://honolulu-therapeuticmassage.bedpage.com/gallery[/URL]

Here you get multiple pages of ads. You don't see all of the BS text that has been attributed to "Jonathan" and very interestingly, you see other ads posted by the same user. This shows that most of the girls don't do their own ads and many use the same outfit to create / post ads for them. Some are legit providers and some are pure scams but all posted by the same user.

Wish I had tried hacking the URL earlier. Wonder if I could have eliminated the BS text before today.

[QUOTE=TrialnError;5474111]Who is Jonathan and why is his name in a lot of the ads?[/QUOTE]I believe to post you have to first give an e-mail address and then confirm you e-mail address, but its the first name of the e-mail address so I'm this case it was.

[QUOTE=MrCrowley;5655055]Hmmm. Bedpage changed it's format again, no gallery view now. WTF?[/QUOTE]So what I like now about this new format is that all of J's stable shows up on the bottom as "other ads from this user" so you know who to avoid.

[QUOTE=MrCrowley;5655055]Hmmm. Bedpage changed it's format again, no gallery view now. WTF?[/QUOTE]Also, why is it that some of the ad the pictures don't populate?