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RE: An official apology - 3/6/2006 8:15:42 AM

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What's worse is when people using third person switch back and forth between third and first in a single post. (yes, sissy, you did it).

Unfortunately, sissy's "third person speech checker" feature in Word appears to have overlooked that one, valeca. sissy Has already contacted Microsoft and reported this problem and so, even as you read this, Microsoft currently has its "A team" working around the clock in order to fix this seriously disabling bug ASAP. In the mean time, both sissy and Bill Gates extend their most sincere apologies for so egregiously offending your delicate sensitivities.

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RE: An official apology - 3/6/2006 8:24:45 AM

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Easy.. Make it manditory for all people on the electoral rolls and who have computer access to join and post daily......

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 1:44:40 PM

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Lol ive had more then posts pulled, ive been moderated and banned, Ive posted stuff on the line off good and bad.

As for the arguement comment well when threads such off this get started it usually means something is missing, When I was posting before my ban there were lots off heated discussions, lots off opinions and well now it seems people just get along. Which makes people bored..

@the mods. Nice to include the faces up the top on the subject line.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 1:59:50 PM

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Lol ive had more then posts pulled, ive been moderated and banned, Ive posted stuff on the line off good and bad.

As for the arguement comment well when threads such off this get started it usually means something is missing, When I was posting before my ban there were lots off heated discussions, lots off opinions and well now it seems people just get along. Which makes people bored..

Nothing is more stimulating to me than a good, level-headed exchange of alternate ideas and philosophies. When a discussion degenerates into a name calling session, the arguments are immature and normally quite weak. While this might bore you that those types of threads are locked or removed, as well as some of the participants, it keeps things on an even keel and allows those that enjoy the debate to continue it unhindered.

These boards are active enough without finger pointing and name calling.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 7:42:38 PM

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

>Much of what is already posted on the CMMB is recycled discussion and absolute illiterate piffle and thus a waste of time and bandwidth, which makes stumbling across the actual good stuff all the more difficult.<

I think we should recycle the comparative debate between BDSM love and vanilla love. Of course there’s another problem, BDSM is only so interesting --- at a point isn’t there a natural bottoming out of the subject matter, except of course for the ubiquitious posters who have something to say to everyone on every subject? (By NOT naming names, this post may survive.)

Ahhh, yes, natural bottoming, cloudboy.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 7:46:25 PM

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 7:52:25 PM

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The natural course of an internet message board is to be overwhelmed by fuckwits.

Yes, but the upside of a message board is the push, drive, edge, and moxy of its core posters. What happens if you neuter satarists, nix strong interpersonal debates, and otherwise keep everyone tethered to some sort of homogenized center?

That said, I love your characterization above --- the fuckwith factor should never be underestimated.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 9:24:27 PM

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ORIGINAL: sissymaidlola

Ah, thank you for sharing so much of yourself in your post, MsIncognito.

Since when is 'sharing so much of ones self' a requirement? Sissy needs to post sissy's rules for everyone on the fora to follow. We can't have people posting the way they want if it doesn't jive with Sissy's paradigm.

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sissy Particularly loved the stand you took on the tolerance of others. Wouldn't it be really neat if everyone like sissy was banned from the CMMB? Then you would have the CMMB all to yourself, MsIncognito, and you would only need to share your comments with others here whose opinions are carbon copies of your own. What a nirvana that would be!

Sissy was the one who said Sissy wanted Sissy's own forum. Sissy obviously is speaking from a position of ignorance or Sissy would realize the hilarity in Sissy's statements quoted above.

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So please tell, Ma'am, is it sissy's spirited opinions or the verve with which he expresses them that you so violently oppose? Exactly how was sissy bastardizing the language? Would you also like to see Jews and Blacks banned from the CMMB along with sissy? Come now, Ma'am, we're all friends here so please don't hold your feelings back or pull any punches.

Sissy is not to refer to me as Ma'am. Thank you. Sissy's post was neither spirited in a positive way nor was it fraught with "verve." Sissy's post was something akin to the hissy fits my pre-schooler throws when something doesn't go her way. Sissy is bastardizing the language by typing in third person. Just because your Master/Mistress/people in chat rooms deem this acceptable it does nothing for Sissy's already thinning veneer of intelligence. Also, Sissy needs to deal with the issues that are causing Sissy's passive-aggressive posturing. Sissy will be a much happier person once Sissy does so.

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Did anyone else think that it was kind of ironic that MsIncognito didn't object to beth using the third person voice, nor candystripper posting in the same size font as sissy. She only objects to both these traits when lola does them. Hmm, wonder why that is?

Again, Sissy displays Sissy's ignorance. I explained clearly that beth manages to present her thoughts cogently and intelligently despite the third person voice she uses to type in. Sissy, unfortunately, falls quite short of the high level that beth manages to achieve. Perhaps in addition to thirdpersonitis Sissy also suffers from degenerative reading comprehension disease. Such disorders can be excused, but are nonetheless annoying. Also, I and many other have already expressed to candystripper in the past that her font only creates visual cocophony on the boards. Some people don't care if they contribute to the overall "community" here despite surface attempts to do so. Irony is rife on the boards. Such is life. I have no illusions of having control over anyone but myself.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 9:34:41 PM

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Showing how many messages someone has posted on the match list would help. The phony users and 'bots don't post to the forums.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/6/2006 10:55:59 PM

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ORIGINAL: Gauge

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Lol ive had more then posts pulled, ive been moderated and banned, Ive posted stuff on the line off good and bad.

As for the arguement comment well when threads such off this get started it usually means something is missing, When I was posting before my ban there were lots off heated discussions, lots off opinions and well now it seems people just get along. Which makes people bored..

Nothing is more stimulating to me than a good, level-headed exchange of alternate ideas and philosophies. When a discussion degenerates into a name calling session, the arguments are immature and normally quite weak. While this might bore you that those types of threads are locked or removed, as well as some of the participants, it keeps things on an even keel and allows those that enjoy the debate to continue it unhindered.

These boards are active enough without finger pointing and name calling.

/me points the finger, its all your fault :P

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/7/2006 3:49:16 AM

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ORIGINAL: candystripper

Support responded; about 250,000 people are members of CM. if Y/you assume each person wrote, say, 100 xs, then about 2,300 people are members here, or less than one percent. Is that ratio good? Bad? Doesn't matter?

slavejali; i agree we should welcome newcomers but i feel we also try hard not to run them off.

candystripper

Perhaps if E/everyone(some are really nice and some are not so nice...) were more accepting to newcomers...There would be more posting by them.
I have been on CM over a year and have just started posting.
Not very eager to join in the posting(knowing that I'm new to the boards,I have that stigma as being a"newbie"). I am eager to read about new things...until someone has a disagreement then its a huge fight...I give up reading through the crap and go somewhere else(another site)where there is WAY less drama.

DONT get rid of the Moderators...for crying out loud who then would keep what little bit of respect I do see here.A smaller site and members can police it themselves...a large one like this needs Someone to make sure ALL are being treated with respect( I mean respect for just being a human being,who may or may not have something useful to say).

I realize not E/everyone gets along,and I'm not saying E/everyone should.
BUT....I do feel that a more open attitude towards 'newbies'.BTW,do you really know if they are 'newbies'? Maybe they have been in the Lifestyle along time and just got a PC or have just started joing groups. Asking them before assuming seems like a reasonable thing to try.

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RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? - 3/7/2006 10:46:30 AM

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I think the message boards/forums are a marvelous thing, as it gives Me great insight into people that cannot be culled from a simple profile.
How can we increase participation? Not sure it can be done. I do My part by mentioning the boards in My profile and reinforcing that, on occasion, when it is appropriate, in an email response.
I think there are many lurkers who never post, but they read, and one can only hope they are learning something and it help them to define their personal goals in this lifestyle.
Nothing will impress Me faster than a boy who mentions My posts in an email. I don't require that they post themselves, but it does show Me that they are taking some time to get a better feel for Me. My opinions are, certainly, enough fodder for some lengthy discussions! *laffs* For those who tell Me that this is too much work, I have now been saved the trouble of any further exploration! *Smile*
So I would vote for mentioning the boards in profile and/or journal, if you are so inclined, but, otherwise, if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Sorry, I did not take the time to read this whole thread.
*slaps self on hand*

**edited for two typos!

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