Is the GB a community to you or just a place you frequent?

[Debbie]

I'd like to know what your thoughts are. Curiosity did not kill the cat - Kitty Mama aka Laurel rescues them all.

 

[Ms_Ann]

I'd like to know what your thoughts are. Curiosity did not kill the cat - Kitty Mama aka Laurel rescues them all.

Maybe so but she still allows certian posters to be trolled in the sacred GB Lounge. Ask her what's up with that for me, since she seems to ignore my reservations.

 

[pollynova]

It's both.

 

[hashtag46]

Maybe so but she still allows certian posters to be trolled in the sacred GB Lounge. Ask her what's up with that for me, since she seems to ignore my reservations.

I just had a look and saw that thread in question.

That's not merely trolling; it's online bullying.

 

[Debbie]

Some of you <I won't name any names because someone might have a hissy fit> seem to use this place like a squatty potty.


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[Ms_Ann]

I just had a look and saw that thread in question.

That's not merely trolling; it's online bullying.

Debbie has The Queen's ear. Heads will roll now.

 

[sharingfantasies]

I think it was more of a community fifteen years ago, but there are still some places where people can gather and feel welcome. They are just harder to find.

 

[Froya]

I agree with pollynova that it's both. It's still mainly a place that I frequent, because I still don't know many people, but it's obvious that there is a community here that is important to many. Longstanding relationships of all kinds have been formed here.

 

[hashtag46]

Debbie has The Queen's ear. Heads will roll now.

I'm trying to tone down the drama and my trolling my trolls because I was given the feedback that I pushed it too far.

But I was too outraged by the comments in that thread not to comment.
Some of the people doing it I like a lot minus that aspect, others are just the usual GB stalkers.

Weird that other posts were deleted for a lot less, yet those ones are staying.

 

[Debbie]

I think it was more of a community fifteen years ago, but there are still some places where people can gather and feel welcome. They are just harder to find.

Hi.


The members fluctuate as well I think. As in there are more users/posters than 15 years ago. Plus the gb has a reputation for being a bit of a hardass board so that might make a few a bit hesitant about dipping their toes in the gb pool and see if it is to their liking.

I know I've wandered off several times depending what is going on in my life.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I generally put no emotional commitment towards the WWW and it's sites. Being part of a community requires some sort of emotional commitment. So I guess somewhere I frequent.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Hard_Rom]

You can be sad about starving kids in third world countries and not be all that emotionally committed.

Unless you meet face to face you can never be 100% about any WWW persona. Computers break or job gets in the way. No biggie if contact is lost.

I prefer RL attachments. Even minor ones. The WWW is just not that real to me.

 

[Nawtee]

Hi.


The members fluctuate as well I think. As in there are more users/posters than 15 years ago. Plus the gb has a reputation for being a bit of a hardass board so that might make a few a bit hesitant about dipping their toes in the gb pool and see if it is to their liking.

I know I've wandered off several times depending what is going on in my life.

It seems a lot quieter now than when I first started visiting.

It is a place I come back to visit, when I have time. It isn't a place I have time to even frequent anymore.

I would class it more of a community.

You can be sad about starving kids in third world countries and not be all that emotionally committed.

Unless you meet face to face you can never be 100% about any WWW persona. Computers break or job gets in the way. No biggie if contact is lost.

I prefer RL attachments. Even minor ones. The WWW is just not that real to me.

I use to be so attached to the WWW - it was a safe place for me. I had very close friends who I trusted and still trust.
Now im older I enjoy more of the RL - happily married and doing well but I still think of my old days and smile. I met some amazing people who I still treasure.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Porkwarrior]

I'd like to know what your thoughts are. Curiosity did not kill the cat - Kitty Mama aka Laurel rescues them all.

The GB always struck me as a cesspool of self denigrating unhappy people feeding on each other. I'd warn newbies I'd bump into not to post here, and I was almost always right.

I have no idea what gets the GB regulars off, and I don't care, the Lounge was created for a reason.

 

[Liar]

I'm not social enough here to call it a community.

It's sort of like the local pub close to the office. It's a comfortable spot for an after work pint, where I'm familiar with the bartender and some of the regulars. Even the ones I don't like, I know where they're at. We drop in and out, chat casually about whatever's on the mind, from weather to news. Sometimes more than casually. And then we go our way. But I wouldn't invite them home. It's not a Cheers situation.

However, if the bartender and all the regulars were to sod off elsewhere, it wouldn't be the same place and I doubt I'd keep going back.

 

[Porkwarrior]

I get that you have to take personalities with some skeptism but also I think too much is equally a little unhealthy.

I also perhaps am a little MORE skeptical about real life relationships and honesty. People lie and cheat and commit triad and all kinds of shit in real life relationships all all the time. I think 'seeing' helps add information, without doubt, as does smelling and hearing and the clues they give besides what is said. But I don't know if I often take what is said to me in real life at face value either.

Well said.
It's rare to find a GB denizen that is the same in the flesh as they want to portray themselves online.

But when it happens...it is fun.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Porkwarrior]

I met Jezzi here, and I love her like a sister.

I met Jezzi when she was a Lit newbie, and warned her of the dark dangerous corners of the GB...

Jezzi is that one that one that doesn't fit in any bell curve statistic. That's also the reason why she is so adored.

I was speaking more about the regular GB denizens, I don't know what they're fighting, today...

 

[hashtag46]

Well said.
It's rare to find a GB denizen that is the same in the flesh as they want to portray themselves online.

I'm that exception.
I'm 10 times better

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Porkwarrior]

Yeah, I edited my post so it was lessabout Jezzi and more a general truth for me . For e ample, there are a good handful of people I met on gb who are in my heart.

You're luckier than I've been, the only people I've met from the GB have been the Hashtag types I bumped into at Fet munches, and aside I mentioned I knew who they were on Lit.

I don't care much for Fet munches, I care less for married people that put on eyeliner once a quarter and pontificate upon everyone else with their experience.

Jezzi just floats above that horseshit, that's why we're both lucky to have met her.

 

[hashtag46]

1.You're luckier than I've been, the only people I've met from the GB have been the Hashtag types I bumped into at Fet munches, and aside I mentioned I knew who they were on Lit.

I don't care much for Fet munches, I care less for married people that put on eyeliner once a quarter and pontificate upon everyone else with their experience.

Jezzi just floats above that horseshit, that's why we're both lucky to have met her.

You mean stupid fat angry slobs?

Unlike you beautiful (inside and out) guys?

 

[Debbie]

Debbie has The Queen's ear. Heads will roll now.

Last time I whispered sweet nothings into Laurels pm box she sent me this.