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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Najakcharmer

Living Goreans?  They wouldn't bother.  Immature rudeniks claiming to be Gorean?  Ohyeah.  Lots.  And from the "other side" perspective, there is no way to tell the difference.  Unless you know enough about real Gorean culture to realize that people who are actually living in it simply don't care enough about what BDSM people are doing to waste time picking fights in their forums.  But for most BDSM folks, their only exposure to "Goreans" are the trolling kind. 

Compared to the General BDSM forum and the Ask A Mistress forum, honestly, your troll incidence is pretty low over here.  But trolls are everywhere, and nobody is immune.  You can't fairly say that "those trolls" represent the BDSM community any more than it is reasonable to say that the "Gorean Masters" who are misbehaving themselves over on our side represent your community. 

You know, one of the things I've noticed in all this, er, quibbling, is that there really haven't been that many from the "other side" getting into the fray. I confess that from some of what I've seen "out there" I would not have been surprised by a blood-letting. But it hasn't happened. Partly, to our credit, because that kind of nonsense draws a clearly discouraging response in this forum. But also because, in the final analysis, there seems to be really only a very limited number of folks on the "other side" whose problems compell them to go out of their way to insult Goreans.
 
Overall, not so bad.
 
K.