juliaoceania
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Joined: 4/19/2006 From: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1 Hee hee! That is exactly the sort of thing I would like to keep out of general, though, Rho. Or, more precisely, perhaps, limit it to at most one train wreck thread there at a time. It causes some people not to post, and the energy infects some of the others who do post, so things degenerate. I see very few trainwrecks going on in general discussion. When I first joined this site there would be several a week. Everything from "Why are subs fat" to "Slaves are more submissive than subs" threads... safeword threads that went for weeks (yes, I used to argue about these things too). Those things are not debated much anymore. The people who stirred the pot about those topic are no longer posting here... they self selected, as you would say. That is what you said you wanted, those who like train wrecks and arguing to go elsewhere... yet at the same time you seem to be bemoaning the loss of posters (or retention of them). Lets face it, there is a popcorn smiley for train wrecks for a reason, they can be entertaining to some people, and they generate traffic. I do not go to PR for train wrecking. I genuinely love to debate political crap. I have been doing it for 12 years over the internet intently, and I enjoy it... I do not go there to beat up people so I can get it out of my system so when I post in lifestyle forums I can behave myself.
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