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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).

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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..

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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.)

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

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ORIGINAL: sissymaidlola

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

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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!

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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

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Well, we could eliminate some of the illiterate piffle on the boards by banning people who refer to themselves in the third person and post in big, pink, poofy fonts accessorized with lots of tildes and asterisks. (Truth be told there is only one third person type poster that I'd keep simply because she manages to present her thoughts cogently and intelligently despite the third person point of view, so beth is more than welcome to remain IMO). I think it's rather ironic that one who is calling for less illiterate piffle is bastardizing the language in this way. I vote for giving you your own private board so the rest of us don't have to tolerate the visual cacophony of your posts.

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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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ORIGINAL: windchymes

As forums go, this one kicks ass and is hopping all the time. If it got much busier, it would be almost impossible to keep up with. I think it's just fine the way it is. And yes, statistically, it usually is about 95% lurkers and 5% posters. You have to really enjoy writing to do this regularly, and most of the general population really doesn't.

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Well, we could eliminate some of the illiterate piffle on the boards by banning people who refer to themselves in the third person and post in big, pink, poofy fonts accessorized with lots of tildes and asterisks. (Truth be told there is only one third person type poster that I'd keep simply because she manages to present her thoughts cogently and intelligently despite the third person point of view, so beth is more than welcome to remain IMO). I think it's rather ironic that one who is calling for less illiterate piffle is bastardizing the language in this way. I vote for giving you your own private board so the rest of us don't have to tolerate the visual cacophony of your posts.

I'm glad that you and Lola are each against "illiterate piffle." Of course it looks like you're just being sarcastic here, but I'll make one distinction in reading the posts. Lola's main point was "why encourage more volume" onto the boards. Better to encourage "more quality." As I mentioned earlier, I agree with this point.

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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.[/quote]

It is my opinion that many hold back from contributing due to threads such as this. Personally, i have no interest in reading one person's complaints about the way another person talks. Threads fall away from their point so that people can, in one post, talk about how people should not speak in 3rd person, and then in another post sacrastically state that people shouldn't post if it doesn't fit another's paradigm.

So we go from talking about increasing participation to how people should speak, and what font they should use, etc. i can only imagine that there are people out there with great ideas to contribute, who simply won't because they don't feel like getting caught up in the critique-fests which have nothing to do with topic.

(No clue my post found its way up into the quote, so i am changing the color of it)

~ 2 cents in the bucket ~

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Personally, i have no interest in reading one person's complaints about the way another person talks.

So sorry to hear that you are "piffled out" ownedgirlie!

BTW, to not post your comments inside the quote don't use the "Quote" function. Highlight the text in the post that you want to respond to then select the "Reply" function. The highlighted text will automatically be quoted at the top of the "Reply" input window. Now just ensure that you type your response to the right of the "/quote" symbol ... otherwise you are back to where we started!

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ORIGINAL: MsIncognito

Well, we could eliminate some of the illiterate piffle on the boards by banning people who refer to themselves in the third person and post in big, pink, poofy fonts accessorized with lots of tildes and asterisks. (Truth be told there is only one third person type poster that I'd keep simply because she manages to present her thoughts cogently and intelligently despite the third person point of view, so beth is more than welcome to remain IMO). I think it's rather ironic that one who is calling for less illiterate piffle is bastardizing the language in this way. I vote for giving you your own private board so the rest of us don't have to tolerate the visual cacophony of your posts.

I'm glad that you and Lola are each against "illiterate piffle." Of course it looks like you're just being sarcastic here, but I'll make one distinction in reading the posts. Lola's main point was "why encourage more volume" onto the boards. Better to encourage "more quality." As I mentioned earlier, I agree with this point.

That's correct, cloudboy, that was indeed sissy's main point. And MsIncognito's main point was what exactly? You never finished the rest of your thought, kiddo. To tell the truth, cloudboy, after reading that post sissy spent the rest of the day looking for all those asterisks and tildas in his post. It appears sissy must have misplaced them somewhere ... nowadays he's always doing things like that. The old memory isn't as good as it used to be, don't ya know. But until now sissy had never realized that "Verdana" was such a "poofy" font. Perhaps "Georgia" would be less "poofy" ... wadyafink? sissy Used to use "Times Roman" but changed from it because people kept telling him that it made his butt look too big!

It did seem rather a peculiar attitude to cop for someone that identifies as a female submissive, didn't it? And she accuses lola of being PA! And a hypocrite! Sheesh, it must be nice to live in a house with no mirrors.

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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.

I love sarcasm

Me too, cloudboy, but sissy doesn't think that that was sarcasm, sweetie. It sounded much more like good old fashioned twisting of someone else's words.

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Within that confine, who would you label the board's #1 satirist, #1 humorist, #1 advice columnist, and #1 story teller?

Why, of course, YOU are, cloudboy ... otherwise why would you ask?


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