I'll miss the mega thread

[WriterDom]

But this is better. Thanks yall.

 

[cymbidia]

Me, too.
It's been central in my Lit life for many months...

But this will be an incredibly good ride, too, i think.

b.

 

[cellis]

But we will still use the mega thread, too... or is it to just be there?

For months it has been my life line to all of you.... I hate to think that it will end now...

I think I am having a hard time letting go of this one...

 

[Harbinger]

Just think of it as a bigger room, with more furniture.

 

[cymbidia]

Harbinger always has such a useable and definitely cool interpretation for stuff.

Oh yeh! It's definitely a bigger room -heck, it's a whole new house!- with way more furniture.

cellis?
I've closed the monster thread.
We've moved, all of us.
We have room to soar, room to play, room to scream and laugh and express ourselves without the neighbors overhearing us and then looking funny at us the next the day.

This is gonna be cool, this new house with the new furniture.

 

[Dhalgren]

Brand new house in which to freely live.
Brand new board in which to freely be.

Interesting timing...
~smiles~


I've never posted to the monster thread because I always found the answer to my question before I could post it..and I always found that someone had aptly typed what I might have contributed...only a lot better.


Contributing will be a lot easier..for many of us, I think.

 

[morninggirl5]

Oh, WOW!

Amazing, a brand new home for all of us.



I'll miss the mega thread, too. Maybe it can be moved here?

 

[cymbidia]

It's here, mg5.
It'll always be here.
It's our genesis as a Forum; how it not have come with us?

 

[morninggirl5]

I noticed it after i posted here. There always seems to be something new when i take a Friday night away from everything. This morning has been topsy turvy in a completely wonderful way.


Perhaps, i'll be infused with an extra dose of courage.

 

[HotXBunz]

I will miss it too but this is great. There was something very cozy in it's familiarity.

 

[BlondGirl]

I think that what I'll miss the most about our Mother Thread is being exposed to every thought posted there. To get to my comfort-zone-type-of-posts, I had to go through the ones that weren't baed on my experiences and kinks. I certainly learned a lot about others who are categorized with me in that thread.

Now I am picking and choosing based on title and thread author.

I do agree that this is better, but I also miss that. It was so much easier to be all-inclusive there.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Where it is for new folks today

Click me.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Interesting piece of history but I am thinking there is probably a bigger wealth of information in the combination of threads and topics discussed since the beginning of the forum to present day, with more to come. Nostalgia is nice but as Tainted B said elsewhere, most of these people don't post here anymore and though some of us miss some of them and their wisdom, the present is so much more interesting and relevant to the majority of today's posters, no? Being a history buff myself, I can appreciate history, but also like to think we are moving forward, adding new experiences, creating new stories and journey's to share with others ....and of course we then create more information for the library while still maintaining a fully operating discussion board which has a life of it's own.

Catalina

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Interesting piece of history but I am thinking there is probably a bigger wealth of information in the combination of threads and topics discussed since the beginning of the forum to present day, with more to come. Nostalgia is nice but as Tainted B said elsewhere, most of these people don't post here anymore and though some of us miss some of them and their wisdom, the present is so much more interesting and relevant to the majority of today's posters, no? Being a history buff myself, I can appreciate history, but also like to think we are moving forward, adding new experiences, creating new stories and journey's to share with others ....and of course we then create more information for the library while still maintaining a fully operating discussion board which has a life of it's own.

Catalina

Whatever dear. God forbid the current crop never sees what existed. If it's such a useless thread unlock it.

 

[crimsonlace]

Whatever dear. God forbid the current crop never sees what existed. If it's such a useless thread unlock it.

Jeez Louise! Thank you sooo much!

I have been reading about the Mother Thread for months (well, years actually!) and never knew how to find it. New and current is great!!! History is foundation-building.

 

[crimsonlace]

Damn double post!

Question for AA, though.

I am having a problem correlating the posting of this thread with your practice of posting links to existing threads for new posters. To my mind, one promotes learning, the other compartmentalizes to the point of obscurity.

Would it be disrespectful to ask where the line lies with you?

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Question for AA, though.

I am having a problem correlating the posting of this thread with your practice of posting links to existing threads for new posters. To my mind, one promotes learning, the other compartmentalizes to the point of obscurity.

Would it be disrespectful to ask where the line lies with you?

No insult intended, but it took 5 seconds to find the link to the mother thread. It's at the tail end of the forum listing. i don't think any of the newer posters realize the BDSM forum didn't exist in Lit at one time. If anyone wished to post on BDSM in an area they knew would be seen, one thread existed as part of another forum. Consider my pointing the old thread out a "Hey, lookie here for a little nugget of gold you might have missed."

i'll take a stab at your question although i may not understand it. Where the line lies with me? If you've gone through the library, and taken an honest shot at doing a general search, i don't begrudge someone asking a question based on lack of information, apparent, or real. Regardless of the new thread poster's expertise, laziness, whatever, if i can find something in either the library or by doing a search, i'll answer the question asked to the general "you" population.

Does that not answer the question posted by the new thread originator? Does an opinion fostered 3 years ago lose efficacy over time? If the poster of that opinion no longer hangs out here, is that opinion less vailid than those that remain?

 

[cellis]

Interesting piece of history but I am thinking there is probably a bigger wealth of information in the combination of threads and topics discussed since the beginning of the forum to present day, with more to come. Nostalgia is nice but as Tainted B said elsewhere, most of these people don't post here anymore and though some of us miss some of them and their wisdom, the present is so much more interesting and relevant to the majority of today's posters, no? Being a history buff myself, I can appreciate history, but also like to think we are moving forward, adding new experiences, creating new stories and journey's to share with others ....and of course we then create more information for the library while still maintaining a fully operating discussion board which has a life of it's own.

Catalina

It is a shame that the past is not appreciated. There was so much growth in that thread... I too miss it. Perhaps many of the older posters no longer post here because their opinions and experiences are not appreciated.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Fuck the mega thread.

 

[catalina_francisco]

It is a shame that the past is not appreciated. There was so much growth in that thread... I too miss it. Perhaps many of the older posters no longer post here because their opinions and experiences are not appreciated.

Why is it you have a problem reading where I have posted it is good to have history, but not at the expense of not creating a new history? Our whole existence is about creating new histories by new people. I gave value to the older absent posters (some who remain personal friends of mine off this board) and their wisdom as I mentioned in plain english, but I will not say that it then needs to be resurrected for the next 10-20 years to show people who are new they have nothing of value to add because I believe in moving forward and also believe no-one knows or has experienced everything thus we need to share stories and experiences both old and present day and future. You see, if people had not posted in those old days to the mega thread (based on the present argument) because the discussions had been had elsewhere before this forum just for BDSM was created, you wouldn't have the Mega thread either. Then of course we could extend this discussion and say well no need to have this forum because you can go to other places with BDSM boards, some on sites which the whole site is based around the lifestyle, so whatever anyone has to say here is useless because it is said by others elsewhere on the www.....seems just as legitimate an argument if the basis is it has been said or posted before so should not have a new thread now. Damn we could end up like places like KT that have had a couple of chitchat threads for the whole of 2005 so far.....guess that is because it has been discussed elsewhere so doesn't need to be discussed by anyone else.

A discussion board is about discussing, not just reading the words of people and times past and being made to feel if you were not there then you do not have a right to discuss anything of your own free choice or which is personally related to your individual experience now. New posters have as much value as the old, maybe more so because without them we become a reference library only which will soon become outdated and stagnent. Even other sites add new articles to their site, sometimes have several on the same topic but reflecting different views and experiences. I may be a grandmother but I am not one who is in favour of telling everyone that they need to listen to me and my generation because we have already lived life and so have all the answers....nor am I in favour of telling new posters they need to listen to just me and the posters who have been here throughout the past 3-4 years because we have already done all that needs doing and given out the wisdom of our experiences which cannot be added to by anything they may be experiencing or feeling. They have just as much right to want to share their experience or issues with present day posters as those who were here in the beginning did themselves when they felt a need for support, advice, friendship, or just being seen to exist......I am not into making people feel invisible and devalued.

Catalina

 

[catalina_francisco]

Whatever dear. God forbid the current crop never sees what existed. If it's such a useless thread unlock it.

It is there for anyone who wants to read it and as new posters have resurrected old threads from time to time I don't see the problem. Old is good, but new is also and we create new every day. I thought the creation of the forum from that time of the Mega thread was so people could have discussions, could create a greater wealth of diverse information and views, not just read the Mega thread and those from that time over and over until they memorised it. If I were trapped in a vanilla marriage, I would want to discuss my problem with current posters rather than read about someone else who had a similar problem 4 years ago simply because each situaton is individual and different not to mention important to those invlolved. Similarly if I want information on how to do some activity, I want up to date information so I can decide to do it how it has been done for 20 years or try something new perhaps that someone has just discovered....or if I want to know what products to use to help with bruising or burns etc. related to play......the products change and are added to and also differ between continents so I want to know what is out there now that works....in the good old days from what I see it was just US based info because the people were US based...now we have people from Europe, Australia and NZ, Asia, and Canada to add to the bigger picture for those who may be interested.

One can value the past without devaluing the present and future. I used to have an aunt who was never short of company simply because even when she was blind and crippled she talked of the past but also wanted to know what was new, (before blindness was not shy of reading a hot novel or trying a new craft with enthusiasm) what was happening in the world today, what the latest music was, and enjoyed and valued all of it.....the others in my family who remained locked into talking about the past and how good it was and how bad the present was and how bad people and their lifestyle had become, how bad the music was now etc., were always complaining about loniliness and no-one visiting them much anymore, and died much earlier than she did with all her health issues...I wonder why.

Catalina

Edited to add, there is a link to the Mother thread in the forum sticky. Miss Taken requested I take down her old sticky and do a new one at which time I thought about removing the link but decided to leave it as it was even though I seem to remember it is in the library. Despite this dulication it seems people have not bothered to access it so I am not of a mind to now forcefeed it to them. No-one has buried the thread, as you pointed out it is at the beginning of the whole list of threads.

 

[crimsonlace]

No insult intended, but it took 5 seconds to find the link to the mother thread. It's at the tail end of the forum listing. i don't think any of the newer posters realize the BDSM forum didn't exist in Lit at one time. If anyone wished to post on BDSM in an area they knew would be seen, one thread existed as part of another forum. Consider my pointing the old thread out a "Hey, lookie here for a little nugget of gold you might have missed."

i'll take a stab at your question although i may not understand it. Where the line lies with me? If you've gone through the library, and taken an honest shot at doing a general search, i don't begrudge someone asking a question based on lack of information, apparent, or real. Regardless of the new thread poster's expertise, laziness, whatever, if i can find something in either the library or by doing a search, i'll answer the question asked to the general "you" population.

Does that not answer the question posted by the new thread originator? Does an opinion fostered 3 years ago lose efficacy over time? If the poster of that opinion no longer hangs out here, is that opinion less vailid than those that remain?

Insult intended or not, I must confess that I am not a search engine guru. Without knowing that the mega thread was the genesis of this forum and without knowing the actual name of the thread, I was unable to duplicate your search.

Having read this board for a couple of years now, I do find a great deal of value in the older postings, hence my delight at your posting the link to this thread. I miss many of the posters who have moved on. I am sure that I have hours of thought provoking reading in store, and for that I am in your debt.

Perhaps I have misinterpreted your past offerings to new posters, but my perception is that they are offerred more to direct posters to past discussions than to foster new ones. There is a great deal of value in the old discussions, but threads take on flavors and change direction at the drop of the hat. Feelings and perceptions change with time and experience. Many times I feel that beginning a new discussion can be more productive than continuing the direction of an old one. Often, I think that answering an initial post by a new poster with links to old threads can squelch their creative input to our forum.

This is just my opinion... I could be wrong.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Often, I think that answering an initial post by a new poster with links to old threads can squelch their creative input to our forum.

This is just my opinion... I could be wrong.

It might, but then again you have threads like Wishes and Problems, or Invitation to Participate with one response that had no link, yet 12 and 37 views respectively. i'm sure they appreciate the multiple views with no response rather than direction to something relative to their subject matter.

C'est la vie.