DiannaVesta
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The sites are there but running a successful online community takes much hard work. Sure you can get the scripts free, set it up, do some basic moderation but the site will die after a while. The draw here is the personals & it’s been around a while.
I think there needs to be a balance with a community site so that the content is fresh and everything runs properly. A mix of commercial and community. In essence the team works for you creating environment, listening to feed-back & you support it via traffic, sales, visiting sponsors. If you spend nothing, its ok because you contribute by being there, however if you need something you support the venues that support you. Much like people going to a community market to support local commerce.
I do agree that there are sites that have nothing to do with female domination or they are lame boring sites no one pays attention to. I go to sites to participate in forums but I also reading articles, news and keeping up on CURRENT information. I also want to chat from time to time but I damn sure don’t want weenies in there bogging the room with nonsense.
I have nothing against professional domination and it has its purpose, however when I go to a lifestyle femdom site I want to network and interact with ladies who are of like mind and spirit. I love coming here and just talking with you guys. The women here are truly fabulous.
I've tried various things on my site to try to move it into a direction where it could serve as a femdom community for women who are interested in power exchange on all levels -- from pros to lifestylers to novices and those there desperate for help because they just found out their man is kinky. My site enjoys pretty good traffic because it's been around a long time, and the lack of photographs/porn images on it give the right impression out of the gate.
But it really comes down to the time investment. You nailed it. I don't run the site for a living and barely have time to maintain the updates I do; I can't really turn it into a femdom mecca/source for women while at the same time maintain the content.
I know I have a strong female readership. I've tried to move toward free memberships for women, but the challenge again is administration of that. Verifying who is really female, and who is not. I have had private mailing lists before that were all femdoms, all voice verified (this was YEARS ago when I had more free time) and they were very successful.
At other times I've had the ability to really focus on the chatroom -- and when I did, it drew great traffic and great conversation. The key was voice verifying the women, not allowing cyberdomination or wank-chat, and having scheduled chats with topics. The women loved it -- there were actually great ratios of femdoms to male subs because the women were not hounded and could actually exchange information.
But, again, if there's no time to moderate, to schedule the chats, to voice verify the ladies...then it all goes down the drain as men pretend to be women, pros start using it as a resource for clients (despite the rules) and it turns into a haven for cybersexxers and women can't go into it without getting PM's with "ASL?"
I've tried to move toward adding "femdom ambassadors" to my site -- women that get free memberships and can perhaps start doing some of this legwork so it can grow organically. But I'm not foolish enough to think that free membership to my site is enough incentive for a woman to put in hours every week to moderate and maintain or voice verify other ladies. Time is valuable to everyone.
I think it comes down to the reality that a successful femdom community won't work unless it's free but closely moderated. That boils down to volunteer time. If I didn't have a job, I'd be all over it. I think it would be fun and rewarding.
Akasha
You’ve done a wonderful job and you have been an asset to the femdom community.
As you know I have been doing the whole BDSM as business for a long time. I basically took something I loved and turned it into a business. What people fail to realize is that there were hundreds of other things I could be doing. I ran my sites like a business because that was the only way they were going to be successful. I bet the site we are on right now has a HUGE hosting bill. Not to mention the countless hours just running the site.
Women don’t generally support adult sites where they have to pay. I don’t know why, they just don’t. This is why we created The Vault. All the graphic and adult stuff can go in there for people who want to pay to access it. Much like bondage.com only all femdom. The revnues from The Vault is what will keep The Village free and to afford full time webmasters, artist, writers, hosting, you name it. I know a lot of women who will purchase a membership to The Vault not to watch movies but to support the site. If they can’t then they can’t. My hope is that we can provide information, education and keep some deserving people employed also doing what they love doing. I could have enlisted a few web slaves to do the work but I didn’t. When it came to design, programming, etc. I hired professionals.
So while I am here I will post this link below:
The Village at FemSupreme is a free community femdom site. It offers free personals, chat, blogs, forums, articles and stories. It does require registration.
To access The Village please go to http://www.femsupreme.com/village/
Please click the link to register. Don’t worry it won’t ask you for credit card info and all information is private.
At this time we are inviting dominant women and submissive men and women to register. I would appreciate your feed back and help working through our bugs. Its sort of like a test drive.
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