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I have been wondering these questions: Is "cerb" located in an office? Mod, are you male? female? When was "cerb" started? Most memorable moments? Scary Stories? What is the traffic like on a daily basis? Any challenges "running" cerb?

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I have been wondering these questions: Is "cerb" located in an office? Technically cerb is a website so it's on a hard drive in a computer in cyberspace... but Yes, our company is design co. (same owners as escorts-canada.com localescort.ca and many other escort related sites) We have a physical office in Barrie Ontario (but... I often work from home - Shhh! Don't tell anyone!). I go in to the office for weekly meetings (and to cover for people when they are away like this week for instance as Dave "the site manager for localescort.ca" is on vacation this week so we are all covering his shifts). Mod, are you male? female? I am male but keep in mind I am not the only mod on cerb all the time. we do have female staff as well and we all read the threads on cerb (I know this as they are topic of conversation at the office all the time). Any of the staff can log in as the MOD (but few ever do unless I am away now). we use to share this account equally but when the site started to get really busy it was just confusing having everyone moderate at the same time. We were stepping on each others shoes. I guess I drew the short straw (Just Kidding - I actually enjoy moderating the site most of the time, most of you are friendly and I still enjoy being part of the site - I just hate the trouble makers, complainers, people who continue to break the same rules over and over and basically anyone who makes my job harder than it needs to be). When was "cerb" started? It was started back in 2001 (I think) we did not start it ... it was started by a guy names Mark (in Vancouver) and was part of the localescorts.ca website. We purchased the site from him and in 2003 and we separated the site from localescorts and cerb was born later that year. We than upgraded to the software that we use today in 2004 (after the old software was hacked badly as the original software it ran on was FREE software and not secure) Most memorable moments? With cerb? When the site started to really take off back in 2004 and we proved a escort site without all the negative reviews or circus threads with people fighting and ganging up on people would be popular! Scary Stories? We have had some really pissed off pimps recently and some very unstable people over the years (they usually feel the need to call us and threaten whoever is unfortunate enough to answer the call) - I personally only answer the phones when I am covering for someone so luckily I just hear about the crazies but I have had a few myself. I can count the people on my hands that scare me... so it's no more or no less than any other type of business. What is the traffic like on a daily basis? I have posted traffic stats in the past for cerb. It gets very good traffic. Do a search for "Traffic" and you will find some threads with details and stats. Any challenges "running" cerb? Every day! Basically you could say running a site like this is a challenge. The list of challenges is a mile long and I would not have the time to go into that one! LOL... I can say it sure is not as easy as it would look from the outside. Hackers, spammers, trouble makers, complainers, rule breakers, immature people, kids, gossip, flame wars, PM spam, moderating, site upgrades, site updates, security patches, new mods, adding features, maintaining multiple servers to run one site, budgets, etc... etc... etc...it never ends. In order to have a site that looks like everyone follows the rules take a LOT of work. Thankfully we have a lot of really great members here who help by flagging bad posts and spam PMs, offering advise and much more!