Or you could look at their ads on Vivastreet although there may be mone left now, since VS have decided not to allow ads from those whose activities are unlawful. Isn't that right, Vivastreet?

Can I write/say this:

Because of their expensive prices and regular change of ( contradicting)  policies and increase in advertising fees which only affects us in the adult industry (escorts), my overall personal opinion is that the site acts like a pimp...... this is my overall personal opinion and in all honesty this is how I fell about the site. I haven't taken any steps to argue or discuss with the site's admin. I just do what I need to do and leave it alone..... I don't have the energy!

Yes, I remember that too. It was bollocks then and it's bollocks now .

We've always questioned why everybody else who advertises on VS gets free ads while sex workers have to pay (and not just a token, but an extortionate amount) and the party line has always been because the ads require extra moderation which takes a lot more time than those of a hairdressers or a nail bar (the latter of which, ironically, is provably more likely to have trafficked people working in it than the premises of people placing genuine indie ads in the prossie bit of VS).

Now we're told that it's being done by automated Robo-Mods instead of actual people and therefore the costs in terms of staff hours will be minimal, does this mean that the ads will go back to being free? And did a Gloucestershire Old Spot just fly past my window?

And of course VS put the ads in the 'Free personals' section, which is not true and gives the impression the ads are not paid for.

Seriously? I didn't know that.

I don't use Vivastreet, am unlikely ever to do so and because of that I tend to stay off this thread bar the requisite keeping an eye on things. Every time I do look I'm surprised by something else.