before you all start one, some things to consider...
* first off, i support the owners' decision to limit women's ads to once a week in the providers' ad section and in the weekend lineup. if women were allowed to post everyday, imho, it would turn into BP or CL - just too many ads to wade thru. not to mention the consumption of free disk storage.
* disclaimer: i dont use the "Short Notice Availability Thread" (SNAT), but i browse it to see who's advertising there.
* houston also has a SNAT; they run it slightly differently than the dallas thread. might want to read thru their ISO forum to see how they do it.
* there was some discussion in the dallas co-ed forum about changing the way the dallas SNAT was run - who moderates it, kind of posts, etc.
http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=566665
read esp FancyInHeels' post #22 [she started the Htx SNAT]
* for some real numbers, i just browsed thru the last 4 pages of posts in the dallas SNAT that included posts from 11/1 to 11/13 1230pm. here are the results.
+ approx 100 posts during that time range [avg = 7 a day, min 2, max 15; 4 days w/ 6 posts, 1 day w/ 11, 1 day w/ 15]
+ 44 different women posted
+ 23 women posted once, 21 women posted more than once [9 women 2-times, 4 3-times, 1 4-times, 4 5-times, 1 7-times, 2 8-times]
so, to me, it doesnt look like it's heavily over-used.
for comparison, from 11/7-11/13, there were 10+ pages of dallas provider's ads (~200 ads).
* i did NOT check to see if they were really short notice availability posts, but i did notice that on a few days one woman posted and then immediately posted again.
* remember, eccie isnt the only medium available to you women - p411 has an ad board, cityvibe, your own mailing groups [like yahoo or google], etc.
so, i am not swayed by the "One ad a week SEVERELY limits our exposure here" argument. Limits? yes. Severely? NO. [but it also depends on your defn of severely.]
hopefully, one would be grateful that eccie & p411 are available! and also know not to put all your advertising eggs in one website's basket.
so, given that the KC area has fewer women than dallas, i think a SNAT in your area would work well and not get out of hand. just set up the guidelines and enforce them as you see fit.
finally, remember, if you all decide to have a SNAT, it
wont be the silver bullet to boost your business or satisfy your libido.
it'll just be another medium for advertising or for searching.
just like Jules Jaguar said in post #29 in the aforelinked thread.
"
Well now the Dallas thread just looks like another ad forum with girls copying their ads and posting pictures on it."
