Quite a lot of people seem to appear ... (93)

Hi ...

Toak

To predict the behaviour of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence - Friedrich Nietzsche

Trilux wrote: Speaking of memos, I've had several unsolicited ones from would-be slave-girls within the past 6 hours. No names, no pack drill. You know who you are!

Damn ... ... what's this guy got that I haven't???

Toak

To predict the behaviour of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence - Friedrich Nietzsche

Apart from those who have been around a bit before joining IC there are quite a few of you who are brand spanking new

Welcome to the brave new world of the self-appointed great and the good.

Shudders.

And can we have a list of all the things that the quality of posts will be judged against?

So we can make sure that we are behaving like a twue dom or sub.

Shudders again.

I should, perhaps, add a rider here to suggest that all irony is intentional.

I'm starting to think that not only is IC having a sense of humour failure, but there are a growing number of people with a sense of reality failure as well.

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Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach ~ Edward Tivnan.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. Simone de Beauvoir

Wild horses wouldn't drag me onto any committee (read Kangeroo court!) and I would fight tooth and nail to stop any such thing happening.

And how in gods name do you intend to "grade people on the quality of thier posts"? Correct Grammar? Syntacical Style? Understanding of BDSM? - PMSL!!!

8 years ago when I came on the scene to be blunt I knew Jack All about BDSM - I knew what I was inside but didnt understand the lexicon, the techniques and loads of other stuff - since then I have learnt a lot - by accepting the very simple truth that the day I stop learning is the day they bury me.

I deeply believe BDSM should be all inclusive and do try and help genuine sounding newbies where I can - But 8 years of knowledge doesnt make me better than them (just fucking older mostly) and believe me when I say the thing I value most within the BDSM community is my REPUTATION thats taken a few years to build and I value it highly - But that doesnt give me the right to judge anyone ever. So any suggestion to make IC exclusively the preserve of experienced people or those with a vouch is simply NEVER going to get my vote.

IC Served me well when I was a newbie - I read, eventually posted, instantly regretted it when the flames were licking round me! But I stuck around and learnt more (still get the odd flame licking my nether regions but hey!) - Thats exactly how it should stay.

Yes - a "newbies" board might be a good idea, for the simple reason that they may feel less intimidated in posting there and those like you who dont want to be polluted by newbies can avoid that board - perhaps we should set a time span before a newbie stops being a newbie - shall we say 2 years - Oh perhaps not, that would include you

Can we fix it..... ermm maybe

Good idea - maybe a board for newbies who can only post there if joined in the first month so they can talk with each other and no-one else as well as the main boards. So they can compare notes...

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. Simone de Beauvoir

Then they can spend time getting to know each other,

(as well as getting to grips with Really Important Topics such as "slave or sub?" and all that crap, so the main boards don't have to be so tedious.)

Dear Admin, New Year, New Newbie board?

begging prettily

syndeeshackles

Change your lightbulbs…and then, change your paradigm.

It does seem a hell of a lot quieter in here than it was during the summer when I joined...

I reckon it's a seasonal thing, most of the pervs are hibernating or have flown South for the winter. Don't worry spring's round the corner and their natural perving instinct's will soon leap into action.