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candystripper -> RE: what draws you to a Thread? (8/20/2008 4:45:49 PM)
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...Quality people in general tend to give you quaility results. Even when something doesn't interest me.. I find that I am getting drawn to threads that have these quality people posting in. There is so much to this lifestyle .. and I find that if all I did was read what interested me... I wouldn't really be opening myself to new ideas only to ideas that would validate my own opinions. So.. I watch the people that I feel are quality individuals more than I am actually watching for things that interest me....
KMO
Back in 2005 and maybe into 2006, the boards seemed *to me* to be *dominated* by highly 'intellectual', highly 'experienced' D/s types, most of whom have long since departed. It seemed *to me* most regular posters on the boards in 2005 knew who these 'dominant' members were and for the most part, shared my respect for them/what they wrote. Those that remain, like Lam and IronBear, no longer seem *to me* to occupy the same sort of 'dominant' position they once did, as a function of the fact that they no longer post *as much as it seems to me* they once did. Doubtless because they have much more important things to do.
In the main *I* no longer see people of this ilk 'dominating' the boards. That is, they no longer seem to be posting the most Ops, among other things. Perhaps I entered during a crescendo the boards were experiencing. Perhaps the members *I* recall only seemed to me to dominate because *I* felt I took away so much from reading their posts. Perhaps *I* merely miss members I had come to admire who are no longer here.
When I first joined the boards, these 'domineering types' posted about everything and anything. Lam was notorious -- and may still be -- for his ability to demonstrate a depth of knowledge about even the most arcane of subjects. Most of the others *I* group together with Lam circa 2005 weren't far behind him in that respect. *I* think you’d be hard-pressed to find a ‘single noun’ search that generated no results dating back to this period, but possibly that too is a flawed perception.
Additionally, these members posted about D/s. And here *I* do see a difference between then and now. First, those who habituate General BDSM, and to a lesser extent some of the other D/s boards, do not IN GENERAL speak *to me* with the same depth of knowledge of human interaction the old powerhouses did. The old members demonstrated in their posts a depth of experience of D/s -- not as 'play', 'a lifestyle' or the benighted 'WIITWD' -- but as a well-integrated part of their essential selves and their lives, the lives of those with whom they partnered, etc. -- that *I* no longer see very often. They *seemed to me* to be ‘educators’ in the best possible sense of the word, provoking 'aha!' moments in many readers that went to core issues.
Stray Thoughts, Off-Topics, Post No 1. An excerpt, author candystripper.
It would appear we agree, KOM.
Who'd a thunk it? LOL.
candystripper
BTW, what's this Op & thread doing in 'General BDSM'? Shouldn't it be in 'Off-Topics'? Just curious.
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