Guess,

we will just have to spend more time getting laid....lol.
Shill.....i'm guilty also. Like u said, just being nice.

Totally agree with you! "Rules" here are very arbitrarily enforced!

I usually don't get involved in this discussion but your post hit a nerve, particularly the "shill post" issue.  Just noting your review history (100+, damn!  That's a lot of pussy!), if you have something nice to say about a girl here, I want to hear it!  If one of our faves is visiting a location she's never been before, why shouldn't we share that information with our fellow hobbyists?  Isn't that exchange of information one of the basic ideas here.

The answer, unfortunately, is that like all other organizations, this one is run and administered by human beings, some of whom get full of themselves and petty and there you go.  Never going to change so I've just learned to accept it and remember this really is just "hobby" for me, not my source of identity as it appears to be for others here!

Yep...this is getting just too bizarre

The threads that are getting pulled are ones that have members bitching about life...and then posts commenting on their bitching.  So who's complaining?  A few members who simply want nothing but nicey nice posts about nothing in general?

And why would some members bitch and complain about the thread that PSSOM started?  You and I had an interesting side bar on that one...and that got pruned...err chopped down as well!!

If TER is looking for nothing regarding any interesting and possibly controversial posting...then they are doing the right things.  And hopefully they will take note that other "competitors" are indeed firing up their sites as we speak.

And all that may be left here are a couple of folks that want to discuss "where do i put my cum?".

I agree that too many posts get pulled and too many threads get eliminated or pruned. Right after the changes in February, this was happening in a big way, then things started stabilizing and more posts were allowed to stay again and even some big trainwrecks remained, but lately the pendulum is swinging the other way again. Probably just a few people reporting posts like crazy. I have no doubt that some of them are the very people who start threads or post in a thread and then don't like the replies they get so they report the posts of the replies they don't like, and then the thread is pruned.

On the other hand, the "shill" thread and fax's desert island thread would have gotten pulled even in the "old" days when we had volunteer moderators. Those are blatant rule violations.

And as far as shilliing, there is a difference between "being nice" and running an ad for a gal.

reasonably successful "hobby" boards become lame, irrelevant, and die due to
OVER MODERATION!

 These TER boards were "THE" boards for most of the 00's because aside from a few personality/drama clashes from time to time; Free speech and expression was the rule.
The new oligarchy wished to streamline and tidy TER up a bit by marketing too the meek. Funny thing is the MEEKEST alumni and Whitest of Knights of past find no pleasure in the NEW discussion board banality.

 Welcome; to the next generation of politically correct, issue sensitive, age sensitive, weight sensitive, overly sensitive, innately mealy-mouthed, recently initiated whores & whore-mongers.


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Some less moderated forums get filled up with so much junk it is difficult to find good information or have a meaningful discussion.  There may be many posts that the mods clean up that we don't hear about because the posts were actually bad posts.  In trying to keep the forum in line, they may make some mistakes.

And yeah, I had one of my first posts pulled a couple of times.  In hindsight, it seems like it could have been a shill post, but that was not the reason I was given when it was axed.   I still am a little unsure of how I could have properly posted what I wanted to say.  Meh...

Hope Admin will come back with some answers there.  Maybe they are not making the decisions themselves.  Maybe they are being manipulated by someone who has figured out how to abuse the "report this post" button.