LookieNoNookie
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ORIGINAL: BrisbaneMaster73
As someone who's been coming to collarme for a few years I can't believe it's taken me this long to ask this question. But, since I'm home sick today and grumpy, I really have to ask... why does most of this message board exist?
I would never even come to the boards except for the scrolling spambox at the main collarme page. Each time I click on a post I think to myself "nah, surely it can't be as stupid as it looks" but the fact that I'm writing this tells you how often I'm wrong.
Not only is the scrolling spambox an annoying distraction but I wonder how much the little pseudo-telex-shit-spewer is costing collarme. Not only in terms of the space it's taking up that could be used for advertising, or in the amount of bandwidth and storage wasted on the roomful of monkeys, but also in terms of members lost due to the "holy shit, if the moronic shit on these boards is an accurate cross section of the average collarme member then I'm out of here" effect.
A cursory glance at the mainpage shows that more than half of the boards have nothing to do with bdsm. Breaking these gems down we have...
Introductions - Introduce yourself. If you already have a profile on collarme then why do you need to "introduce" yourself to "the board"? That's what your profile is for and, get this, when you browse profiles you're not looking at them from random countries on the 10000 to 1 shot that it might be someone you're interested in.
Introductions - Positive Experiences. So, let me get this straight, you've just met this wonderful person and now you want to tell everyone how wonderful they are so they can do their best to steal them away from you? Or is it only here so that guys can create fake profiles and make posts about how wonderful themselves were? Or is it because you're a budding Mills and Boon author who everyone tells to STFU whenever you try to invade their reality with your fantasy world? Whatever the reason, it's stupid at best, or fraudulent at worst. Ironically if "criticism of other users" was permitted it might actually be entertaining or informative. Knowing that DreamGurl69LOL is a balding serial killer might be useful information to some.
Casual Banter - All of it. The less said about this the better. Yet this is the section that seems to come up more often than not in the Dead Shit Scrolls. Everything in this section can be found elsewhere on the internet in about a trillion places. Why collarme thinks that anyone cares about the opinion of people without a clue, or a life, commenting on just about anything they're capable of vaguely understanding, and what is has to do with bdsm, is beyond me.
The rest of the categories seem to be, at least on the surface, possibly useful. At least they're related specifically to bdsm and/or server issues.
In short, surely the reason the forum exists is so one can post things related to bdsm without being ostracised like you would be on other forums. Why not keep it limited to that and dump the rest of the shit that just clogs it up and makes collarme look bad in the process? And, as an added bonus, whilst I'm against rules that tell other people how to live their lives, surely the removal of these sections of the forum would free the poor souls who waste their lives on it. Maybe, once it was gone, they'd have a moment of clarity and realise that it wasn't really that important after all.
PS. I'm aware of the irony of having to post this in the Casual Banter section. The fact that there isn't a "Server Discussion/Improvements/Whatever" forum merely helps proves my point.
It exists for me.
Most are unaware but, I started www.collarme.com some years back because I was horny and lonely.
It's worked for me to date.
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