Well both those answers are reassuring - so thanks for that. They are of course from the 'part of the greens' which we all know and trust - however, over time others may appear on different terms - so I'd like to echo the call for the distinction to be made.
It's taken me hours to read through all the posts and take in everyone's points of view, my head hurts! Some excellent points raised and the new management would do well to take these on board, if they want this site to continue to remain a success.
Many have spoken passionately because they feel that this is THEIR site, as they have contributed much and invested their time and selves over the past. Mark was one of US and being taken over by strangers is going to take a lot of building trust and confidence. IF the new owners are prepared to listen to the community that has evolved here, then this site will continue to be a success. Otherwise it will just become another swingers site. What they/we have here is something unique, something that can not be bought (especially us lot), so I hope they do realize that, or are at least beginning to!
Elliot, Martin and co may well interface with us here and come to love us, but I wonder how they are going to explain to their superiors (I gather they belong to a larger group), what they have only just discovering themselves about this site. This is more than just a slice of bandwidth and a prime piece of internet real estate they have here. It's a whole community of people that make up this site, which makes it such a success. Lose us and their investment wiill be worth a whole lot less.
I welcome the new guys just as long as they treat us with respect. However, I am concerned that while Elliot, Martin and St3v3 may be the friendly face of the company, those that they work for may not have the same sense of loyalty to SH, if you see what I mean. I get the feeling that at the end of the day/year, it will be up to company accountants that decide the utlimate direction SH will take. I dearly hope this will not be the case but I have my concerns. So I ask the new guys to make sure those who have a more abstract interest in this site, at your company, gain an understanding of what they have here! An opportunity to build on something that is already great i.e. the people and the ethos that we have developed. Value our opinions and our sensibilities and things should work out fine.
I guess Elliot and co didn't have much of a clue about this place when they 'joined'. I believe it's only just beginning to sink in for them, lol. Let's face it, I think most of us ambled into this site thinking it was 'just another free site' and then realized we had just tapped into something much more significant. So no problem in understanding their suprise in finding what we are about and what go's down here, lol. We've all been newbies, so give them time to settle in and get used to our ways. I just hope that they will come to love this place as much as us and will want to nuture, protect and preseve it as much as Mark did.
Ok, I'll stop rambling now.
Regards
LC.
One thing you might want to play with is making yourselves administrators and changing the colours of them back to purple. Mark always used to show up in purple and as 'Administrator'.
He chose to take this out a while back so he matched in the mods, but in light of the paid staff / volunteer split this would give you a simple way to differentiate. (as requested / suggested by a few peeps above)
Elliott, Martin & Co
Could I make a suggestion (i did it earlier but it may have been lost in the crowd)...
Perhaps a New Ownership FAQ thread.
Lock it immediately and only the Admins can post on it.
Have a single post with a summary of all the questions and your replies.
You can update it when a new question is raised.
That way people will not have to wade thru this entire thread to see if a Q has been asked (and answered) already.
Just a thought that may help a little!
Hugs,
Alex x
Questions for Elliot or Martin...............
I posted this on page 13 of this thread but obviously with the amount of posts on here it's been overlooked, so I will take the opportunity to expand on my original questions, and could you answer when you get a mo...........
1). Do you intend to make Swinging Heaven an International site like Dating online? (I see they carry ads from people all over the place). This could have a dramatic affect on the communities that exist on the Forums and in the chatrooms
2). Munches are site sanctioned to the extent that they are organised by volunteers from the membership but run to a strict formula that is supported by SH...........will your organisation be prepared to allow this to continue?
Hope you can answer
M
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