darkmoonfire -> RE: CM is wonderful.. but, where else do you look? (9/27/2006 10:28:48 AM)
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I was on Bondage.com for a short while but I hated the interface, and I got no results at all. I had a silver membership on Alt, which I have now allowed to revert to the free one. I had a fair bit of success on the site over 3 years or so, met a few and also corresponded with some nice people, however in the end I do feel it wasn't worth the money, and was becoming less so as time went on. The main issues I had with it were lots of site bugs (it looked like it was programmed by chimpanzees), and the seemingly large numbers of fake profiles. There seemed to me (looking in the Europe region) that there were large numbers of East European mafia seeded profiles - scammers trying to get credit card access, spammers to get email addys, and mail order "subs" who are really just looking for green cards. Or webcams and online dominations scams. (I see a few of these that I suspect on CM, but it is much cleaner than Alt by far). Possibly some of the profiles are seeded by Alt themselves to bolster their membership, certainly as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, they never delete profiles so it looks like there are waaaaay more active members than there are. There were also I suspect many profiles posted by men as fantasies to see what stories and ideas they could come up with. I'm sure most of the 19 year old "no-limits - no taboos" slaves are all fake. My biggest bugbear with Alt though, is that it is so mainstream that many of the profiles are really vanilla ones, and IMHO, shouldn't be on a BDSM site at all. Namely, the couples with a bi curious wife (whom I have no doubt, has no idea that hubby posted the ad) looking for a woman to join them for kinky fun. Fine, but sweet f.a. to do with SM. I am relatively new to Collar me, but I have hope. The message boards at least look interesting and the people seem more genuine. Not much contact yet, but hopefully that will grow. There are few extreme dominant women out there on the best of days, maybe some are here.
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