Ginevra

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9394 Not as cool...

Well.... Looks like some drama today. A few points here then: I did read the moderator resignation posts and felt that on the whole they were well presented, appropriate and flat out owed to those of us who knew them only through the forum or through AFF fictions. It would not have been effective or appropriate to leave as they did without offering us an explanation and I am most certainly glad they did. Granted a few were long winded and emotional, but so too, is what I'm seeing posted in their absence. I have also noted that some of my forum PM's are conveniently unable to get through to some persons but not others and have had to resort to contacting them through other means. As this is the case I will not in the future consider forum "Private Messages" to be private, just as I would not consider emails sent from my work PC to be private. When and whom is no one's business but mine and the recipients, thus the term "private." I am certain there is a log somewhere of my attempts to send these messages if someone believes it to be a technical issue. I do not. What I remember seeing before the resignation posts were deleted, was that each mod posted his/her resignation on those forums for which they were responsible. An action which I consider responsible and appropriate, if a bit repetitive. Some people only view those threads they subscribe to or have interest in. An additional thread held the resignation posts as a group. Something I would also consider reasonable and appropriate. It was a group action after all. Doing so through private messages or emails with no public explanation for the mass resignation would have been cowardly and irresponsible in my opinion. I would personally consider some of what I am seeing on the forum today as flames were they directed at me. I may be relatively new around the AFF forums, but I have checked in and out of AFF for a long time now and have observed enough to form my own opinions. I have moderated my own yahoo group in the past and have participated in other online and face to face communities and seen similar dramas unfold. While the names change, the characters and their lines seem quite familiar. If we are to subscribe to the "keep the peace" rule here, then it should apply equally to everyone should it not? And while it may be the victor's prerogative to write the history books, it may not necessarily be in "good taste" to do so. I have very much enjoyed my time on AFF, at least until recently. I have not found a better venue for my work, or a better source of reading material. So I am staying, for now.

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Alan Thick

I am home again. I am trying to decide what I want to do this evening.

Negative

Warrick Brown

Head

I am sneaking a few moments at the computer before taking #1 son out for his Tuesday night dinner with Mama. I am getting hungry. I am trying to decide where we are going.

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Jock strap

Scrotum

Neither have I. Bummer. I have never learned to drive a stick.

I am joining SilverFox-chan in the happy dance as I just posted a chapter nine of my own a few minutes ago! I am proud of myself...I managed to upload an Avatar without asking for help. I am being drug kicking and screaming into the 21st century...I just started an online journal. I have no idea what I'm doing.

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Niether have I, though I've tried. I have never eaten caviar.

I am procrastinating -- I don't want to go to work this morning. I am wishing I had a laptop so I could write stories anywhere. I am just finishing my breakfast -- and it had nothing to do with sheep.

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I've no idea what this will mean for the Forums other than I suspect it won't be much fun for a while. The people who have left are the very same people who have made the forums fun for me. In the meantime, I'll be shopping around for other archive sites for my fan fics. This does not sound good at all. If you have any recommendations for good archive sites, please PM or email me. At the moment I do plan on continuing to post on AFF. But, I am looking for plans B and C. I am totally bummed out on this mass exodus of people I was starting to think of as friends. I have seen this sort of thing happen in a face to face BDSM group I used to belong to. It's the reason my husband and I no longer play with others. All the folks we were genuinely interested in knowing left the group and, unfortunately, none of those people had the resources to host group functions, including ourselves. This sucks. I may have to just join the 21st century and start my own blog or journal or whatever so I have a safe place to post my insanity. Grr...

Car

Nickel

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