I let Mistress Sassy into a social on a gut whim, a few conversations and a phone call........ and good greif, my ears and liver have been aching since!
She's gonna kill me if she sees this!
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Inviting newbies to socials and munches... bloody hell... don't ask me!.........
I let Mistress Sassy into a social on a gut whim, a few conversations and a phone call........ and good greif, my ears and liver have been aching since!
She's gonna kill me if she sees this!
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Some good points raised;
1) People being members on more than one site
This shouldn't have any impact at all on who attends, provided that the munch criteria are met.
But it does impact on wether an event can be called a munch - hence why many that would have been termed a munch are called socials - its a loophole, that's all.
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3) Admin arranging munches and charging.
I still think that the mebership would do a better job and that the munches should remain non profit, we will provide support where we can.
I agree Steve. I am sure that organisers will be grateful of support but my personal feeling on this particular point is that Munches are events for the community run by the community/ members of it. I would not like to see a situation where munches themsleves are a commercial venture or even thought of as such.
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. . . . a brilliant few paragraphs about new members, catch 22, large influx, quick shag brigade, etc
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. . . . . it's not lack of enthusiasm, cos there are 7 or 8 munches + socials organised in another place. ;) i'm sure part of it is that organisers are more certain where they stand elsewhere?
also, and this is a big negative in my view, organisers elsewhere probably feel it's easier when they know everybody who might want to attend already,
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Are the days of munches as we have known them for a few years, comming to there "sell by dates" or has "Cam Action" in the chat rooms taken over ?
You know the sort of thing :- No need to go to a Munch cos we have seen them all on Cam.
Medic_1
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2) Membership fess
If everything continues as is we have no intention of charging fees in December, we will make an official announcement in the near future.
However, my perspective on this has changed somewhat, particularly with the influx of new members. We see every day the lack of understanding of what swinging is across the whole site - cafe, lmu and chat. Along with the influx of 'new blood', what we also got was a tidal wave of quick shag brigaders who treat SH like a sex site, not a swinging site - and to me personally there is a massive difference in the way those two camps of people think and behave.
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Inviting newbies to socials and munches... bloody hell... don't ask me!.........
I let Mistress Sassy into a social on a gut whim, a few conversations and a phone call........ and good greif, my ears and liver have been aching since!
She's gonna kill me if she sees this!
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...so we get more of all sorts of newbies, hence more obvious amounts of TTT&Ts, but as far as i can see, the balance of decent genuine members to absolute fuckwits seems pretty good?...
...if they turn out to be twats, then yeah, adios, fuck off, don't ask again, and if we have any say in the matter whatsoever, don't expect to log in again cos we'll do our damndest to see 'em get a ban, but until they prove themselves to be twats, we'll take 'em at their word?
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...so we get more of all sorts of newbies, hence more obvious amounts of TTT&Ts, but as far as i can see, the balance of decent genuine members to absolute fuckwits seems pretty good?...
...if they turn out to be twats, then yeah, adios, fuck off, don't ask again, and if we have any say in the matter whatsoever, don't expect to log in again cos we'll do our damndest to see 'em get a ban, but until they prove themselves to be twats, we'll take 'em at their word?
- but I do it in the safety of a well organised munch, in a room full of people I know/ am familiar with and in whom I have complete faith in that if anything 'went wrong' because someone was an absolute fuckwit, one of you would be by my side in seconds. You lot are good at that.
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jas, i don't see why you think i should do it?i don't even know what you're on about, or where you're going with this?
:P
besides, i've made 4 posts on a 3 page thread ((( before this one! ))) which exceeds my all-new self-imposed rule of one post per page, cos even i get bored sometimes reading meself waffle on and on and on and on and on . . . . :P ;)
neil x x x ;)
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I think a lot of people ran away from what they thought SH would become after and because of the change of ownership. I also think a lot of those people – and I include myself – were mistaken, and are beginning to see that they haven’t found the swinging nirvana or utopia they seek. I include ALL the beakaway sites in that statement, not just the one I refer to as “over the roadâ€
It saddens me to accept that some, maybe all, will not return to the fold here, due to human nature and face saving issues.
In the café at the moment, there are more than enough “woe is me†type threads about the “state†of the forum, plus the added problem of technical glitches.
But I really do think that things aren’t as bad as many of us thought they would be.
Yes – there’s a bigger element of wanna shag/quick shag brigade and the things “we“ didn’t and don’t want, but is it really that bad ?
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I think a lot of people are having similar thoughts and are slowly coming back into the fold.
It can only be a good thing.... the community is becoming less fragmented.
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and luckily the community here welcomes those coming back to the fold without question
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I think a lot of people are having similar thoughts and are slowly coming back into the fold.
It can only be a good thing.... the community is becoming less fragmented.
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I think a lot of people ran away from what they thought SH would become after and because of the change of ownership. I also think a lot of those people – and I include myself – were mistaken, and are beginning to see that they haven’t found the swinging nirvana or utopia they seek. I include ALL the beakaway sites in that statement, not just the one I refer to as “over the roadâ€
It saddens me to accept that some, maybe all, will not return to the fold here, due to human nature and face saving issues.
In the café at the moment, there are more than enough “woe is me†type threads about the “state†of the forum, plus the added problem of technical glitches.
But I really do think that things aren’t as bad as many of us thought they would be.
Yes – there’s a bigger element of wanna shag/quick shag brigade and the things “we“ didn’t and don’t want, but is it really that bad ?
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I think a lot of people are having similar thoughts and are slowly coming back into the fold.
It can only be a good thing.... the community is becoming less fragmented.
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I think a lot of people are having similar thoughts and are slowly coming back into the fold.
It can only be a good thing.... the community is becoming less fragmented.
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I also agree, but please don't shoot me down in flames, but can we please please please keep the politics off the forum, it doesn't create a very nice atmosphere
Les x
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I've just lost the will to post after being logged out......... again
I'm so fed up of having to write things in word documents and then cut and paste. :( More than 24 minutes pleaseeeee admin!(ok, I'm not too ashamed to get on my knees and beg! ;) )
Gem. x
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I've just lost the will to post after being logged out......... again
I'm so fed up of having to write things in word documents and then cut and paste. :( More than 24 minutes pleaseeeee admin!(ok, I'm not too ashamed to get on my knees and beg! ;) )
Gem. x