Strongmindbody -> RE: What's te Payoff? What's the Cost? (7/1/2008 1:00:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: candystripper Good Lord. Seven pages and counting. I'm tired; anyone care to tell me if a single post responded to the Op? Named the payoff? Named the cost? candystripper quote:
ORIGINAL: candystripper There have always been friendships on the boards -- seems natural to me. Just as there have always been antagonists; people who rub each other the wrong way. Wow! I'm new to this board, and I first thought you (as pinksugarsub) were new as well. Now that I see you have thousands of posts, I like you even more. Seriously. Every board needs a good antagonist. If they don't have one, they will create one. Honestly, you're perfect. Benefit: Don't get me wrong - I almost never read your posts - but I do get tremendous amusement at your consistent ability to start a thread like this that goes on for pages and pages. Oddly, this has been a really great thread that would have been impossible if it had been started by almost anyone else. Adversarial relationships can bring a community together like nothing else! Benefit: So I will add to the mess to make one comment: humor, real friendships, even "group hugs" on this particular board serve a serious purpose. They make some frighteningly difficult and intimate discussions more bearable, more human, more honest simply by lending perspective. I don't view them as hijacks as much as good natured reminders to keep me from becoming too full of myself (Cost). Benefit: Like you, I have no knack for witty posts and online banter, so I refrain. But I certainly appreciate the broader spectrum of insight that I see from those who do have the knack. All communication (or lack thereof) can tell us something if we look, and in BDSM, humor and community become a necessary counterbalance to the high/low intensity that often besets those in the lifestyle (ok, is it really a lifestyle or BS?). So thank you for the post, and thanks to everyone else for all the pages of replies. Not yet sure what I learned this time around, but it did keep my attention... /rant
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