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Osmosis - the search will be complelty re done with loads of new criteria and features added. Distance (location and in miles) is just one of them 
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We will never spam and are registered with data protection
Trouble is that spam has different definitions... some companies consider it fine to contact members/customers from sister companies... and the thing is we have to opt out which often leads to more spam... ok last word from me on this subject for now...
Sex God
Quote by davej
On the issue regarding privicy etc etc.
We are governd by data protection, all details are confidential, and will not be used, sold or let out what so ever. You have my gaurntee on that.
With regards to popups, no, we will not be having any popups, at all, no more ads than there currently are on the site, thats not the way we do things.
And postie - no im afriad you cant ;p
please try harder elliot, freckled bird is just gonna get miffed at ya.
:doh:......fuck it, thats two posts when you clearly told us only the one
....am I banned...am I?....am I?
Bugger off Dave, don't get me in bloody shit with them before they've seen me (nice, quiet, respectable, shy teacher that I am)
Welcome Elliott, and much luck to Mark and his family.
'Suck it and see' is the first thought that popped into my head when I read the thread.
Orgasminator
There are two other sites that used to be free untill a couple of years back, one with a name similar to this one... I visit it once in a blue moon as very few new people join up after the initial trial period, for the existing membership at the time they were all upgraded at the time so don't have to pay... but the site is not nearly as good as it used to be.
The other one went the premium membership way, and over time reduced the facilities that were available to non-paying members I've not visited it in nearly a year as its just not worth it as so little is available to myself and the number of new members is such that its lost the turnover required to make it interesting to anyone but a small clique.
A well known gay site has very reciently reduced the facilities available to non paying members by not allowing non-paying members to see the photos within the adverts (same as the swinging site mentioned last above) and its noticable that the number of new people creating accounts (not nesesserally paying) has droped significently.
I guess we shall all have to wait and see how the comercial paying aspects of the site exist with the non-paying abilities and what changes over time for all the regulars and if the site is improved or goes down the pan with respect to our usage as apposed to the comercial viability of just getting as many wanashags who can pay joining up and how or if refunds would be made to people that cause problems to others or if the fact they paid makes it ok for them to be members while causing grief for genuine swingers.
The other one went the premium membership way, and over time reduced the facilities that were available to non-paying members I've not visited it in nearly a year as its just not worth it as so little is available to myself and the number of new members is such that its lost the turnover required to make it interesting to anyone but a small clique.
A well known gay site has very reciently reduced the facilities available to non paying members by not allowing non-paying members to see the photos within the adverts (same as the swinging site mentioned last above) and its noticable that the number of new people creating accounts (not nesesserally paying) has droped significently.
I guess we shall all have to wait and see how the comercial paying aspects of the site exist with the non-paying abilities and what changes over time for all the regulars and if the site is improved or goes down the pan with respect to our usage as apposed to the comercial viability of just getting as many wanashags who can pay joining up and how or if refunds would be made to people that cause problems to others or if the fact they paid makes it ok for them to be members while causing grief for genuine swingers.
Sex God
Quote by Mal
And yeah, spelling is bad, and so's my reply time, however, i have beeen on these forums now since 10 oclock, and have not stopped reading or replying, so can i be let off
10? Is that all? God, have you got a lot to learn!! :grin:
Perhaps any changes might incorporate a Frecklebird, er, I mean a spell checker!!
Mal
:shock:
:smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: Quote by Dawn_Mids
Is this the beginning of the end?..........
or the beginning of a new dawn ?
Whats wrong with the old Dawn
:cry: :cry: :cry:
:doh:
And I specifically didn't say a new Hawnie Dawnie.
btw - might this mean I can have my old avatar back ????????????????????
Or would you prefer I kept the shower pic Dawnie ??????????
Quote by dambuster
:doh:
And I specifically didn't say a new Hawnie Dawnie.
btw - might this mean I can have my old avatar back ????????????????????
Or would you prefer I kept the shower pic Dawnie ??????????
*Phew
So pleased you're still happy with me Dammie
You missed Horny Dawnie today, I have behaved all day, the chatroom was safe. Not too sure about this evening though :rascal: :giggle:
As for your picture, you know I luurrve the shower pics
hwoar: Quote by Dawn_Mids
:doh:
And I specifically didn't say a new Hawnie Dawnie.
btw - might this mean I can have my old avatar back ????????????????????
Or would you prefer I kept the shower pic Dawnie ??????????
*Phew
So pleased you're still happy with me Dammie
You missed Horny Dawnie today, I have behaved all day, the chatroom was safe. Not too sure about this evening though :rascal: :giggle:
As for your picture, you know I luurrve the shower pics
hwoar:Have you really behaved all day Dawn? Hmmmmmmmmmm :bounce:
Quote by Mr&MrsBeds
:doh:
And I specifically didn't say a new Hawnie Dawnie.
btw - might this mean I can have my old avatar back ????????????????????
Or would you prefer I kept the shower pic Dawnie ??????????
*Phew
So pleased you're still happy with me Dammie
You missed Horny Dawnie today, I have behaved all day, the chatroom was safe. Not too sure about this evening though :rascal: :giggle:
As for your picture, you know I luurrve the shower pics
hwoar:Have you really behaved all day Dawn? Hmmmmmmmmmm :bounce:
:whistling: :whistling: :whistling: :whistling: :whistling: :whistling: Quote by Mr&MrsBeds
:doh:
And I specifically didn't say a new Hawnie Dawnie.
btw - might this mean I can have my old avatar back ????????????????????
Or would you prefer I kept the shower pic Dawnie ??????????
*Phew
So pleased you're still happy with me Dammie
You missed Horny Dawnie today, I have behaved all day, the chatroom was safe. Not too sure about this evening though :rascal: :giggle:
As for your picture, you know I luurrve the shower pics
hwoar:Have you really behaved all day Dawn? Hmmmmmmmmmm :bounce:
Mrs Beds - I tend to agree - will give her the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe, possibly, for a couple of minutes when she awoke - maybe thats when she DID behave .........
Quote by Dawn_Mids
*Phew
So pleased you're still happy with me Dammie
. . . . . you know I luurrve the shower pics
Pics
You've seen more than that one ?????
(You haven't seen the movie tho)
Ooooh - I think this might be the most serious thread I'd ever hijacked :shock:
I'm gonna
now before my sense of "humour" surfaces. 
Master of Sex
Quote by davej
I suppose my only surprise is that....people are surprised :shock: was there really that kind of naivity around that folk thought the place would plod on forever without a commercial gain being made or being sought?....surely not.
Like everyone else I can only guess at events, but if you guess at a site starting out in a small way, with the owners not really knowing how it would grow and form itself, but then finding perhaps to thier surprise that the time and effort and I will also guess at a bit of cost as well, has made it grow into something that is much bigger than they envisaged and into something that now has a workload thats seriously impinging on life and a commercial value that can't be ignored, what would you do?...yep sell it! and why not. What the hell is so wrong about realising a worth on something you own and deciding to take that worth to provide for you and your own, cos I'm buggered if I can find fault in that.
So now there are new owners and those owners are going to try and make a shilling or two with thier new purchase. They have made thier initial announcement and already a few sticks and stones have been chucked over the walls at em. commercialism, greed, scammers, blah, blah, blah, well so what, someone sees an opening, sees an oppurtunity to add to thier existing business does the leg work splashes out the dosh and thats ohhh so wrong?....eerm no it isnt, its real life, you might not like it but thats pretty much how the world works, someone puts in the work, some starting capital and a business is born and on the back of that with a bit of luck comes a copper or two, ohhh and that terrible word as well....shall I say it?...shall I? ..go on then say it.....PROFIT.
Change can often be unpallatable, we all like the comfort of what we know, but change is ineviatable in nearly everything we do, touch and get involved in, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse, but as sure as eggs are eggs it is with us all.
I ain't trying to piss on peoples concerns, but thus far its been said that the existing membership is gonna be uneffected, sort of tuped over and thats fine by me and if the time comes that the place changes into something that I don't like, or into something I can't afford, then I will open that same door that I opened when I walked into the place...the one marked 'free' and gently shut it behind me.
Best of luck to the old owners and best of luck to the new.
A very sensible post, Dave.
SH may be a community, but it isn’t a commune. We don’t all have equal rights and it’s not actually OUR site. I have been a member for long time (I was the eleventh person to join) and, during that time there have been many things I have enjoyed about SH and a number that I have not. Above all, however, I have been conscious of the fact that, basically, someone was providing something for me for nothing.
The fact that SH is about to change need not, in the short term at least, mean that the changes will be bad for existing members. Nobody spends money to buy something in order to change it in order to destroy it, particularly when that thing is as intangible as a web-based service. When the Swing2Us swingers site became a pay site, existing members retained their free membership and continued to provide the backbone of the site, which (I believe) got better.
I appreciate the commitment made by Elliot in saying that we, as existing members, will not be called upon to pay for membership and am prepared to wait and see how things develop. If I don’t like it I can just walk away – and it still won’t have cost me anything. A shame, perhaps, but that’s the reality of the situation …………….. and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Can't be arsed to read through all the posts in this thread, Morbius has pretty much filled me in (ooer) .......
My thoughts are thus ......
The new site owners have hopefully paid the previous site owners a considerable premium, and hopefully it goes as a reward to Mark and his family. Setting up a website years ago that has grown into a monster and must eat into their time and presumably resources considerably. Thanks to Mark I have a whole new lifestyle and friends to share that with I hope whatever he puts his mind to in the future is as successful.
The new site owners having paid for this site, must realise that by introducing to many changes and changing the essence that is SH, would be detrimental to their investment. I too have seen a home grown website sold off (for over a million too :shock: ) and the new owners come in and interfere too much with the balance immediately. Time and patience from both owners and community should lead to improvements for both .
I can't comment about membership charges and will refrain from doing so as I feel that the promise of no charges for a year (possibly for life) needs to be tested.
Important words to the new owners, this whole community is based on trust, we trust each other to protect each other, to remain confidential and primarily to respect each other, and that's why it works so well as a community. Please remember this and treat us the same, listen to us, hear us and respect us and I'm sure you won't go far wrong.
There will be a lot of ill feeling as I'm sure you have expected. Some of us will be worried about our lifestyles being criticised, displayed, disrespected, some of us will worry about losing friends, money, some of us will be concerned about our privacy. Bear with us and we will bear with you. Please be as transparent as you can be with us, you will win a friends of us then.
Please don't change the essence of our site, we are creatures of habit and shock changes will disturb us ..... we're interested in your ideas, and we may well have some of our own ;)
Good luck ......
To my friends in the community ~ WE make this site work, we make this a community, it shouldn't matter who the owners are (although certainly what they do with it matters), we are the ones that count and work to keep the balance. Only by whispering in corners or splintering off will this community fall apart. PLease .. lets just suck it and see ..... for the time being.
Calista X
My thoughts are thus ......
The new site owners have hopefully paid the previous site owners a considerable premium, and hopefully it goes as a reward to Mark and his family. Setting up a website years ago that has grown into a monster and must eat into their time and presumably resources considerably. Thanks to Mark I have a whole new lifestyle and friends to share that with
I hope whatever he puts his mind to in the future is as successful.The new site owners having paid for this site, must realise that by introducing to many changes and changing the essence that is SH, would be detrimental to their investment. I too have seen a home grown website sold off (for over a million too :shock: ) and the new owners come in and interfere too much with the balance immediately. Time and patience from both owners and community should lead to improvements for both .
I can't comment about membership charges and will refrain from doing so as I feel that the promise of no charges for a year (possibly for life) needs to be tested.
Important words to the new owners, this whole community is based on trust, we trust each other to protect each other, to remain confidential and primarily to respect each other, and that's why it works so well as a community. Please remember this and treat us the same, listen to us, hear us and respect us and I'm sure you won't go far wrong.
There will be a lot of ill feeling as I'm sure you have expected. Some of us will be worried about our lifestyles being criticised, displayed, disrespected, some of us will worry about losing friends, money, some of us will be concerned about our privacy. Bear with us and we will bear with you. Please be as transparent as you can be with us, you will win a friends of us then.
Please don't change the essence of our site, we are creatures of habit and shock changes will disturb us ..... we're interested in your ideas, and we may well have some of our own ;)
Good luck ......
To my friends in the community ~ WE make this site work, we make this a community, it shouldn't matter who the owners are (although certainly what they do with it matters), we are the ones that count and work to keep the balance. Only by whispering in corners or splintering off will this community fall apart. PLease .. lets just suck it and see ..... for the time being.
Calista X
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Bl**dy Hell :shock:
Just got home, and read this :cry:
Have to say I am very cynical. I'm guessing the new owners are not into this 'lifestyle' and so are not here for their pleasure :cry:
I guess if all else fails, those of us down here in the Devon / Cornwall area can organise our own events without the site, just by contacting each other
I guess time will tell on what happens to the site
Just got home, and read this :cry:
Have to say I am very cynical. I'm guessing the new owners are not into this 'lifestyle' and so are not here for their pleasure :cry:
I guess if all else fails, those of us down here in the Devon / Cornwall area can organise our own events without the site, just by contacting each other
I guess time will tell on what happens to the site
Quote by Calista
To my friends in the community ~ WE make this site work, we make this a community, it shouldn't matter who the owners are (although certainly what they do with it matters), we are the ones that count and work to keep the balance. Only by whispering in corners or splintering off will this community fall apart. PLease .. lets just suck it and see ..... for the time being.
Calista X
Hear, hear!
An excellent post, as always, Calista.
Quote by Manolishi
:doh:
And I specifically didn't say a new Hawnie Dawnie.
btw - might this mean I can have my old avatar back ????????????????????
Or would you prefer I kept the shower pic Dawnie ??????????
*Phew
So pleased you're still happy with me Dammie
You missed Horny Dawnie today, I have behaved all day, the chatroom was safe. Not too sure about this evening though :rascal: :giggle:
As for your picture, you know I luurrve the shower pics
hwoar:Have you really behaved all day Dawn? Hmmmmmmmmmm :bounce:
Mrs Beds - I tend to agree - will give her the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe, possibly, for a couple of minutes when she awoke - maybe thats when she DID behave .........
Is it a 7 or 9 Hun?..................... :thrilled: :happy: :happy:
Orgasminator
Quote by Elliot
Ah yes, sorry was meant to reply about the meet. I think you can probably guess what im going to say, and thats no thanks, for now. Promise we will be up to a meet as soon as, but not tonight, just to much going on today. I for one am looking forward to a good drink tonight
Thats all any of us will be doing... its a social not an orgy.
