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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/12/2015 10:14:14 PM

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I've been with the (original) site longer than I care to remember. I made a deliberate choice to leave the Forum side of this site some time ago, well before the Civil War I'm now seeing referred to. All I do now is (very) infrequently tap into the Personals side to check for mail.

Along with RL developments, it was basically due to a sense of staleness, coupled with very uneven, biased moderation and the inability of them to distinguish lively debate from trolling and asshole behaviour. It may have improved since then, I don't know, but when I left there was a combative nature to the moderating that doesn't sit well with folks. Additionally, the Politics and Religion threads took about 2 seconds from OP to become completely polarised, and the sense of debate and a search for reasonable middle ground all too quickly evaporated. I spent my last couple of weeks here down the hall from the Goreans in the the Games area because it was tired of the BS.

I enjoyed a lot of good times here (Tap Tap Tap) and got to know a lot of extraordinary people very well, who I can still stay in contact with without coming here. To me, the best times were those booming spontaneous threads that blazed brightly with the weird and wonderful input of a cast of characters from all walks of life. Sometimes, I literally couldn't breathe for laughing pains, And the women, oh the sweet delicious subbie women, god I loved them. I recognize many of the names on this thread, but clearly many more have also departed. And now I'm reading about technical issues too, which is a pity.

I think you can briefly revive a dying organism but nature always wins out. Life is cyclical. Spontaneity was the common factor in all the best things here, and you cant make things happen by willing it.

And as someone pointed out, social media now evolves exponentially to the point where any given format has a shorter lifespan. Fora like these are dinosaurs and the climate is always changing.

That said, I hope everyone who is still here, and new members, are having a good experience. Great things may be just around the corner, and remember there is no evolution without mutation.

All the best to everybody. Be sane, safe, and happy.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/13/2015 12:21:58 AM

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I'm not sure if anyone knows this.

The collarspace.com domain name expired in June and was renewed for only one year. This is unusual, especially for a well established domain.

In addition, it was renewed by using "Domains by Proxy", a service that registers on behalf people who want to remain anonymous and not provide their own details to registrars.

This seems very strange and makes me wonder if there has been a change in ownership or whether the future is undecided and there may be plans to sell up.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/13/2015 10:41:35 PM

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In addition, it was renewed by using "Domains by Proxy", a service that registers on behalf people who want to remain anonymous and not provide their own details to registrars.

Wrong. Using a domain proxy doesn't shield your personal info from the registrar, it just keeps it out of whois lookups. You still need to give your personal or corporate info to your registrar.

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This seems very strange and makes me wonder if there has been a change in ownership or whether the future is undecided and there may be plans to sell up.

There's nothing strange about it at all.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/14/2015 5:25:51 AM

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Its already dead, just doesnt know it yet.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/14/2015 7:01:54 AM

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Three points I would like to raise with you, EbonyWood:

1) Civil War? Don't you mean a few children squabbling over fuck all in the grand scheme of life?

2) Biased moderation? Never had a problem personally. 'Wonder why that is? Perhaps I don't invest my time in cliques and as such couldn't give a flying one which side the moderators come down or even who the sides are and what the moderators have to say on the issue. Perhaps someone invested in the childish clique behaviour would notice?

3) The Politics and Religion threads polarised in no time? To an extent I agree, but there are some good posters in that section. Perhaps you may consider leaving the bad and taking the good?

In a nutshell, your post appears to be more of the same having a dig because your nose has been put of joint somewhere along the line. There appears to be no clear reason as to why you'd arrive stating you used to post once upon a time but you don't fancy it anymore. Couched in verbosity, granted, but not fooling anyone all the same.

The site is better off for the missing in action drama posters in my opinion. Fewer people yes, but much less drama, so for the likes of you and the other woman who rears her head now and again: what you're doing is childish. Either stay away or contribute, rather than turning up and basically saying: "I'm not going to contribute" because that is a waste of your own time and a waste of perfectly good bandwidth.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/14/2015 8:00:07 AM

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That's not unusual in the least. I have a cooking blog that I register yearly and pay a fee to keep out of the whois lookups. Frankly I'm surprised when someone doesn't do that.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/14/2015 5:59:09 PM

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I know if she's dying, but the old gal is definitely ailing. I think we've seen the message board equivalent of Gresham's Law play out.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/14/2015 6:39:13 PM

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ORIGINAL: MasterPandy

I'm not sure if anyone knows this.

The collarspace.com domain name expired in June and was renewed for only one year. This is unusual, especially for a well established domain.

In addition, it was renewed by using "Domains by Proxy", a service that registers on behalf people who want to remain anonymous and not provide their own details to registrars.

This seems very strange and makes me wonder if there has been a change in ownership or whether the future is undecided and there may be plans to sell up.

That isn't strange at all and I use Domains by Proxy for many of my sites. If you owned a free BDSM dating site and forums, would you publish your name address or use a proxy? Hell, it's worth paying 6 dollars to use a proxy just to avoid the new domain registration email spam you get.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/15/2015 10:05:16 AM

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The old gal is not dead but definitely dying. CM now CS is no longer the largest BDSM site in the world. Fetlife and several other websites have surpassed CS in # of members, activity etc.

When you do not pay your people......the people leave and go work for someone who does pay them. Technical glitches that used to be fixed in hours now takes months. When you do not re-invest into the business, the business will die. It is just that simple.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/15/2015 10:52:47 PM

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^ Actually, FetLife has always had much more traffic than CollarMe/Space did.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/30/2015 12:43:51 AM

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This place hasn't evolved, hasn't updated, hasn't improved. I'm not trying to be critical or insulting I'm just saying maybe part of the reason it's dying is because it looks old. The main competition site has a much cleaner lay out although less features.

Anyway, that's the outside view of CS from someone who doesn't know anything about this site past politics and troubles.

Being a designer, I even made modernized mock up version (screenshot) of the site with tabbed menus, live video profile feed instead of pics, as well as marketing ideas like contests with prizes etc. But this site is laid out in classic BBS style... which is still a very goog way to navigate through the HUGE amount of content here. Form follows function. Artwork takes up bandwidth and slows a site down. I am pretty sure the owner knows that the design of this site is not its appeal, its the function and content. Which the site delivers w/o bells or whistles and navigates you where you want to go in the quickest manner, fetching the content you seek in the fastest manner. Think of it as classic or old school Geek style forums.

Well, with lag issue on both sides of the site now and cmail lagging out so mail doesn't work reliably, I have to retract the above comment. Even I have gotten annoyed to the point I don't see myself visiting as often as I used to. "Good riddance" eh?

As long as CollarChat has 190,000 pages registered in the search engines with all those hot sex topic keywords, attendance will bounce back once he fixes the tech issues.

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/30/2015 5:03:10 PM

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Honestly, six months and counting of technical issues is absolutely ridiculous and beyond the ability to reasonably excuse it by any rational means

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RE: Is the old gal dying? - 8/31/2015 12:04:01 AM

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Honestly, six months and counting of technical issues is absolutely ridiculous and beyond the ability to reasonably excuse it by any rational means

Six months? There have been technical issues for far longer than that, but thanks for the staggering insight anyway.

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