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Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/1/2006 9:31:09 PM

cloudboy

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I thought I'd take a stab at writing an entry for CM on Wikipedia. I tried my best to stick to the Wikipedia format: neutrality, informative, factual, and detailed. Naturally, there is much I do not know. Anyway, here is what I came up with:

>Collarme or collarme.com is a non profit website devoted to BDSM personal ads, chatrooms, and message boards. Members may sign up for for free, can send private messages to one another, create personal profiles, maintain a personal journal, participate in chat rooms, and post messages on its diversified message board.

The online community on Collarme includes over 310,000 (three hundred and ten thousand) members from countries all around the world. The site is maintained by a staff of volunteers, and it generates operating revenue from donations and private advertisers.

The name "Collarme" is derived from a submissive or slave wanting to be "collared" by a dominant or top. The collar is the symbolic "wedding ring" or tangible symbol of committment between partners in a S&M relationship. So, "collar me" is the BDSM expression of "take me" in standard English. It represents a voluntary committment and surrender of personal control of a submissively oriented person to a dominant oriented person. This transfer of control is referred to as "power exchange," and the extent of the power exchange is a point of negotiation between the parties.

Members of collarme are typically interested in a variety of kinks including but not limited to: spanking, bondage, caning, paddling, dominance and submission, slavery, cross dressing, and many other forms of sado masochism, behavior modification, and role play. Typical roles of Collarme members include dominant, submissive, and switch and the sexual orientation of its members includes heterosexuals, homosexuals, bi-sexuals and people oriented to polyamory.<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collarme

Maybe those more knowledgable could add some more information such as:

When was Collarme formed?

Who founded it?

At what rate has its membership grown?

What is its operating budget?

Where is it based?

Has anyone ever tried to shut it down?

What impact has it had on the BDSM community?

Style and content edits welcome.

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I just have to say, I love wikipedia. Last weeks New Yorker had a killer article on it.

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/1/2006 9:37:46 PM

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Wow, That is one of the best descriptions of WIIWD I have ever seen. I am not easily impressed by the online writings of others but you get a full "10" from me.

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/1/2006 10:05:13 PM

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Its always fun to try and characterize something objectively.

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/2/2006 8:06:36 AM

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Do you know cm is non profit? Seems to me you need non profit status to claim that. Though that may only also be in the real world. It may not pertain to websites.

Most don't view collars on the same level you do. Most get one from a stranger today...have it a few days or a month then move onto the next person with an alledged collar.

Most of the people on collarme are not interested in the lifestyle. Most are not on these boards. Look at the membership and look at how many actually post. Perhaps less than 1%?

For the rest of your questions..those are quite easy to find doing an IP search. However that is not to say the mods even want that info given out?

Not trying to pick it apart but just telling you what I read in your words.

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/9/2006 6:51:13 AM

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The entry is now up for deletion. It does not fit the wikipedia format --- and its hard to find other links about CM that describe it.

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/9/2006 7:51:32 AM

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How about alternative lifestyle personal's site?

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/9/2006 8:42:24 AM

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Cloudboy, very good description!
CM would get a lot more members if it were in Wakiapedia or whatever they call that.
And Kudos to the people who started Collarme and the Volunteers too!
Great Job!

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RE: Wikipedia - Collarme - 8/9/2006 10:03:59 PM

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I'm not sure how to save it. My last efforts were deleted as invalid.

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