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Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:17:25 AM   
MistressDREAD


Posts: 2943
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline 		The Qualities and Attributes that have been the Collarme format since the beginning is fading to Me.
Ive seen it happen to so many other sites that address Our Alternate Ways online and it saddens Me
to the point when I have to leave such places to the normal infultration from the vanilla world that bleed
out who We are to a substandard that kills off the very Qualities and Attributes that bring a Alterante
Group together in the first place. There was a time that like minded to Me was present, But they have
long gone and as I often am told that I hold on to long to things, Ive always hoped that this place would
keep its originality to it. But Collarme has changed. I cannot put My finger on just what or why but its not
Collarme anymore to Me. It no longer speaks to My kinks or differances or tolerances or being. 
So I think its time to move on with the likeminded to Me who have left long ago
to places that are better suited to the Extream Differances that We Outcastes Live and Thrive with.
And leave this place to the pastel colored lifestylers who walk the halls and hail for normal actions to get
alone with societys norm. Im retiring from Collarme and intermingling with those who see Me here as crazy,
weird, insane and unaccepted. Time to go and blow My money and travel to see the United States alone instead
of work , work , work, and come here and try to enlighten those without a clue. All You half steppers can take
a deap breath now and blow out knowing Im now gone and work on your agendas to a normal society.
 
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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:21:47 AM   
Taylore


Posts: 121
Joined: 6/19/2006
Status: offline 		This slave has enjoyed your posts and will be sorry to see you go Ma'am. I wish you well in your endeavors.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:30:00 AM   
CelticPrince


Posts: 3613
Joined: 4/15/2005
Status: offline 		MD,

I believe what you are witness to is the growth of the site with the corresponding growth of nonsense that comes with a big increase of newcomers.

They all deserve a chance to learn and partisipatie.

good Firtune to your journey

CP

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:33:33 AM   
zenofeller


Posts: 463
Joined: 6/10/2006
Status: offline 		it's remarkable to notice how grammar and spelling skills is fading at the same rate as The Qualities and Attributes that have been the Collarme format. mayhaps its just a coincidence.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:49:05 AM   
Jasmyn


Posts: 1234
Joined: 2/6/2004
From: New Zealand
Status: offline 		Dread I've been feeling the same way for sometime too and it's only tonight that I have felt like putting a message on the boards having frequented the site very little in the past month or so and I find myself lamenting the passing of 'kink' as it gives way to something not quite as, well, damn kinky. 

Even though you're gone already ..may your travels be safe  :)

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:50:00 AM   
Submotive


Posts: 440
Joined: 9/9/2005
Status: offline 		Wishing You all the best in Your journey. i haven't been on this site that long but do see the change from an informative sharing to a lot of bitching and complaining etc. But i'll continue for those whose insight i do value.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:52:26 AM   
IronBear


Posts: 9008
Joined: 6/19/2005
From: Beenleigh, Qld, Australia
Status: offline 		DREAD, we have been friends for a long time now. I understand your reasonings and why you left other areas as did I. You know how to contact me my friend. I may even join you and either leave here completely or just reduce my participation here.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:54:12 AM   
CrappyDom


Posts: 1883
Joined: 4/11/2006
From: Sacramento
Status: offline 		Funny,

I was thinking about posting the complete opposite of this thread.  While there are the inevitable idiots and drama king/queens I have found some very insightful and thought provoking people on this list and far less acrimony than I have seen on others.

I have been on "Frenzi" an email list out of San Francisco that has many of the greenery press authors and other luminaries, real and imagined, on it.  There were certainly interesting people there but it lacked the civility and in some ways the openness of this site.

Dread, I will miss you and I think we will be poorer without you.  As a newcomer myself, I don't know what I missed but I do know what I have found.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 8:54:42 AM   
truesub4u


Posts: 2949
Joined: 11/17/2005
Status: offline 		Going to miss your post MD (even having to read them twice due to colors...lol).. but you've been a joy to have around..... got a feeling you'll be having a few others following you soon enough.... good luck..and may you and yours be safe and happy always.

Jessica


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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:02:54 AM   
RavenMuse


Posts: 4030
Joined: 1/23/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: IronBear
I may even join you and either leave here completely or just reduce my participation here.


I seriously hope not mate, your contributions and friendship would be missed by many.

Dread, apart from that bloody terrible and damn near impossible to read font you mostly choose to use, some of your posts I enjoyed, others I thought you talked out of your arse... but one thing I always respected is, like myself, you were yourself and don't give a flying feck of other peoples reactions to it. If they liked it, great, if they didn't, well thats their problem.

Fairwell and good luck


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And it must follow, as the night the day,
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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:20:03 AM   
iliv2servher


Posts: 228
Joined: 5/17/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: MistressDREAD

The Qualities and Attributes that have been the Collarme format since the beginning is fading to Me.
Ive seen it happen to so many other sites that address Our Alternate Ways online and it saddens Me
to the point when I have to leave such places to the normal infultration from the vanilla world that bleed
out who We are to a substandard that kills off the very Qualities and Attributes that bring a Alterante
Group together in the first place. There was a time that like minded to Me was present, But they have
long gone and as I often am told that I hold on to long to things, Ive always hoped that this place would
keep its originality to it. But Collarme has changed. I cannot put My finger on just what or why but its not
Collarme anymore to Me. It no longer speaks to My kinks or differances or tolerances or being. 
So I think its time to move on with the likeminded to Me who have left long ago
to places that are better suited to the Extream Differances that We Outcastes Live and Thrive with.
And leave this place to the pastel colored lifestylers who walk the halls and hail for normal actions to get
alone with societys norm. Im retiring from Collarme and intermingling with those who see Me here as crazy,
weird, insane and unaccepted. Time to go and blow My money and travel to see the United States alone instead
of work , work , work, and come here and try to enlighten those without a clue. All You half steppers can take
a deap breath now and blow out knowing Im now gone and work on your agendas to a normal society.
 
Same Dread


MistressDREAD,

I feel much the same as you.   And I have seen many a good site go under due to lack of interest and from political pressure. 

This Website and Forum was created for us.  And although the administrators try to keep the peace, it is really up to us as a community to police ourselves.   

I think that we are all representatives of this site, and it is our obligation to try to build it into a positive resource for the comunity, an island of eduction in a sea of misunderstand, and a safe-haven for those who yearn for honest answers. 

CollarMe is an excellent BDSM Website.  And as members, we can either hang together as a group, or simply let it slip through our fingers.

-Phil




"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone!"
-Joanie Michell 

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:25:47 AM   
mistoferin


Posts: 8284
Joined: 10/27/2004
Status: offline 		MistressDread,
I'm sorry to hear you will be leaving. You are right, collarme has changed a great deal and I too, miss many of the wonderful voices that are now silent. The loss of yours will also create a void. Be well wherever the road may take you and thank you for sharing so much of yourself and your experiences....you contributions have benefited many.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:27:59 AM   
juliaoceania


Posts: 21383
Joined: 4/19/2006
From: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Status: offline 		As a newcomer I cannot say I have had a huge opportunity to read your posts. I will say that I have been involved with another internet group (not BDSM related) over the course of 4 years that "seemed" to change. It had not changed, it was ME that changed. We all grow and different things become of more value to us than others once were... it is the way our lives evolve. We out grow friendships, careers, romantic relationships, and interests... it is normal.

May you find what you seek..... I may myself one day become bored with CM, or may find it is not useful in my walk, but hopefully it will continue to be useful to others. It isn't a value judgment for me when I outgrow something and desire other things in my life... It just means that isn't where my headspace is. For now CM serves an important purpose for me.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:30:57 AM   
youQadesh


Posts: 84
Joined: 4/4/2006
Status: offline 		You will be missed. I have not really spoken to you, but what I have read of your thoughts and ideas I find as well balanced. You will be missed. My the fates smile on you.

Morgan

< Message edited by youQadesh -- 7/7/2006 9:31:28 AM >

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:35:54 AM   
MistressLorelei


Posts: 997
Joined: 11/7/2005
Status: offline 		Few things in life are perfect....  I try to extract from a source what I can use, enjoy, learn from, or otherwise, and cast aside the rest of the nonsense.  When everything becomes nonsense to you, then perhaps it's time to move on.  I think CM is one of the better free sites on the net... even if sometimes you have to wade through the crap to find something meaningful. 

Good luck to you Lady with the hard-to-decipher, red font.





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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:42:27 AM   
MHOO314


Posts: 3628
Joined: 9/26/2004
Status: offline 		Your forthright responses and no nonsense approach will be sadly missed.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 9:47:08 AM   
Mavis


Posts: 828
Joined: 2/8/2004
Status: offline 		Mistress,  i hope You might reconsider... now that i can Read Your posts, i'm curious to what i might have missed.   Would You consider giving it one more month to abandon ship? As You obviously know, online communities cycle and shift, and the departure of the "old regulars" usually hastens the least positive shifts.

Maybe in the time before You "retire", You could re-introduce some topics You found especially enlightening, positive, thought provoking, etc.?

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none of this applies to me, i'm only playing with lables this week.

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 12:47:10 PM   
stef


Posts: 10215
Joined: 1/26/2004
Status: offline 		She'll be back, this is too big of an audience for her to ignore.

Ok, what's the over/under on this one?

~stef

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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 12:59:12 PM   
MistressOfGa


Posts: 2929
Status: offline 		MistressDread,
May your journey be eventful and your heart be strong. Good luck in all that you do. I notice that you are one of the first few to post here on CM and the fact that you have stayed this long is a tribute to your patience. I will miss your words.



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RE: Retirement from Collarme - 7/7/2006 1:15:58 PM   
yourMissTress


Posts: 1665
Joined: 6/14/2005
From: Nashville, TN
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: stef

She'll be back, this is too big of an audience for her to ignore.

Ok, what's the over/under on this one?

~stef


I have to say that I think MD had a lot of very valuable ideas and thoughts and was a great contributor to the CMMB.

However, the more dramatic the exit....I give her 2 months. 

< Message edited by yourMissTress -- 7/7/2006 1:38:23 PM >

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