I have been very careful to NOT remove dissenting opinions, even when I know it will start flames. There are a lot of personality clashes on this board. I have allowed off topic discussions, just so this board doesn't become merely a place to post ISOs on PSEs. It is a bit of a balancing act that I am still trying to get a hold on.

If you believe that one group or a couple of people are overwhelming the board, the best defense is to be more active in posting. The critisim of fasteddie and kathy is not truly fair. Yes, they have been advertising under the rules but they have only started a few threads. They are very active threads and the crtics on both sides have spilled over the original threads. If it gets out of hand I will trim it back.

Please keep posting, lurkers add nothing that makes the board interesting. I have also decided to be more active on deleting posts by those that just attack every post made by certain others. This should help reduce some of the sillier shit. Many people publicly and privately have asked for an end to the poster stalking.

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flame throwing messages.  As I said before, the content of this board is large dictated by members.  It is up to you, me and others to shape the issues.

Skip messages are very easy these days with the advent of wheel mouses.

Happy Hobbying to all.

Ever look at the TBD Pornstar board... now that forum has sunk.  They only get a couple of posts a week anymore.

Perhaps an idea to curb mass discussion under one topic is to only allow one post per person per thread.  In other words, once you post a comment under a thread, you cannot post anymore without starting a new thread.

Doing that will quickly fill a page and potential flame war topics will scroll off pretty fast.  Think about it, when you check this board do you flip back page per page for the past few days, or do you just check the first page for recent topics?

Just my .02.

i find myself agreeing with most of what's been said in this thread ... people should participate instead of bemoaning the dearth (or death) of what they like (or once liked) ... to not participate is to relinquish control to others which starts a slippery slide towards a different "regime" (other than what you prefer)


but the ONE thing that i consider most important is making this board a welcoming place for the talent (women, pornstars, providers, etc).  there are not many places around the net where slobs like us have the opportunity to interact with pornstars (specifically, ones we actually get to bang!) and to chase them off this board with assinine machismo and/or an uncivil tongue or even outright "cruelty" is a darn shame!

what we guys do/say to each other is one thing, but how we interact with the women is another IMHO.  it's not so much that they are "women" or "ladies" even (as in dainty little things we should treat politely and with kid gloves etc) it's because they are the VERY REASON this board exists ... to draw an analogy that [cough] even NASCAR fans could understand, it would be like logging on to a message board to chat with Dale Earnheardt Jr. (or whoever) and to then proceed to berate and ridicule him (and other racers) because you didn't like the way he made that swerve in the final round (or whatever) ... substitute your favourite sport (or "hobby") and i think you get the picture

JMHO ... and with all due respect to NASCAR fans!  

yours truly
Singleton
(from a cybercafe in St. Tropez a la Cote D'Azur)