RapierFugue
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Joined: 3/16/2006 From: London, England Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminAlpha RF- My apologies, I had assumed that everything that could be said about the moderation had, and you are correct; I was off topic.Let's see if there is anything left to say on topic, as I was the one guilty of leading it astray. Please understand - I'm not anti off-topic, quite the reverse. I enjoy thread drift and I also find I learn more about people through reading the direction they take a thread (for good or bad, depending on the person) than if things stay rigidly on-topic. Also, I've learned more about certain subjects when they're on the fringe than if they'd stayed "in the centre". I'd vote for allowing threads to drift a great deal more than is currently the case, for the above reasons. My experience also is (on more generalist, non-BDSM forums of various types) that the forums that are very narrow in their interpretation of drift tend to be the more dull and stilted. Now that could merely be because the sort of people who only want to contribute to narrow-interest threads are more dull people, but I suspect it’s that online conversations, like real-life ones, are better and more interesting when they follow a broader path. Just a thought, that’s all.
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