Senior Literotica Members: Do you still feel like this is your home?

[Black_Bird]

Does it still feel good to open up that first page and see everyone babbling away? Or has the board changed so drastically that you don't feel comfortable here anymore? Are you put off by all the new faces? Or is it one of the reasons why you keep coming back?

 

[Ginny]

is a senior literotican over 55 or 60? so many places have different age cut-offs for senior citizenship....i was just wondering....

 

[Xander]

The board has always been changing, from the very beginning.
Those of us, who have been here since the beginning knows it and all that.

No the new faces do not put us off. And personally I still like coming here, and does so every day, mostly.

Just because there sometimes are little that I wanna post to, or none. Doesn't mean that us oldies is not here looking.

Just as it has always been

 

[Samuari]

is a senior literotican over 55 or 60? so many places have different age cut-offs for senior citizenship....i was just wondering....

I prolly qualify in any sence you want to put it, but yeah, I still feel like this is my home on the net. It has changed, mostly in ways that have to do with its sucess. there are prolly ten times more regular posters here, and a hundred times total regestered posters.

That has meant several changes. First with that many folks posting the board moves at a much faster pace. Good threads can get buried in the fluff of "Have you come today?" and "Is this a bad hair day for you?" Those kind of threads have always been here and they have thier place. Hell, 've even started a few of them, but so many?

The second major change also has to do with the volume of posters. In the good 'ol days (toungue firmly in cheek) we had the time to get to know each other. I would look at the board in the morning before work and see what was going on, post to Sparky's 'Good Morning' thread, sign off and think about how I wanted to respond to various threads durring my day. Then in the evening I could still find those threads on page one and give a responce that made sence in context. Today I'm lucky to find those threads at all, and when I do my carefully reasoned coments are no longer pertinate to the discussion. I do miss that.

The last thing is that the general tone of the board has become harder, I think. Reciently, I made a mistake. I thought that a member had a sexual oreintation that he desidedly did not. He chalenged me on it, rather beligerntly (and I supose that he was within his rights to do so). It was three days before I got back to the board and posted and appolly which didn't seem to satisfy the young man, and made what I had thought was a friend so pissed that she is not answering my pms. In the 'olde days' we thought that we were doing good if we got a responce in a week, and we took the time to find out why someone said ythat offenceive thing. There just isn't time to that any more.

But when I am online, this is one of the places that you will most likly find me. It is home.

 

[April]

It has changed. Drastically, I think. No longer so comfortable and comforting.
At the same time, there are some new faces I like, while still hanging on to the old ones.

Things can't stay the same forever, unfortunately.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[The Nitelight]

It hasn't changed a bit.
Which might be the problem.
You can answer a question twice.
Three times.
Maybe even five times.

But when you see the same threads ten, twenty, or a hundred times, you really state to lose interest.
I'm here as much as I ever was, but I'm averaging under 3 posts a day, and am having trouble maintaining that.

It's still a magic place, and I'm sure it's here if I need it.
Right now I don't.


Old Literoticans never storm off.
They just fade away...........

 

[RisiaSkye]

I'm still here, every day. There are many interesting new people. Often, however, I just don't join conversations because I've already had them a dozen times, I don't have the time to make a fully thought-out reply, or because the comments already included in a thread are insipid. <--- That last thing is nothing new, btw.

Cycles, cyles. The board goes through them, but so do we as individuals. My post average is also right around 3 per day; I'm here, just not much of a joiner.

 

[LukkyKnight]

...has the board changed so drastically that you don't feel comfortable here anymore? Are you put off by all the new faces?

The ones who are put off and/or feel uncomfortable are not here, one infers. As an adolescent-lit-poster I find the so-called senior ones to be almost uniformly worthy of reading. I'm glad that most of those who persist here have done so.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Its near two years.. I'll live here, I always will.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I've been here for about two years now, so I suppose I'm a senior Lit member. Yeah, I think of this place as my 'Net home because I don't really post on boards anywhere else. I've never felt the ability to be fully myself anywhere else. You people get the brunt of what's me whether all ya'll like it or not.

It's changed, but it's also remained the same. Same kinds of posts same kinds of social groups, same kinds of trolls. People come and people go.

Growth is necessary to the livelihood of any community, otherwise it stagnates and people leave it. I like it the way it is, constantly in flux.

And Sam, if you've been PMing me, I haven't received anything. I have gotten IM rude in the last year, though. I'm sorry.

 

[Amadeus]

Something Has Changed

I agree it has a different feel to it these days.

I still check the new story list sort of frequently for favorite writers, but rarely look at the boards anymore. I think the boards were a friendlier, more thougtful place a year or so ago.

Too bad, I guess the odds of running into the grungier attitudes and mindless flames increase as the number of participants goes up. There was a time when I looked forward to looking into the conversations.

Also the role playing seemed a bit more interesting and easier to get into comfortably.

As always, you have to wonder what really changed, me or the board.

Anyway, it was nice this evening coming back and finding a few of you here. Thanks.

 

[Ambrosious]

Lit is and always has been "home sweet home."

I love this place, loved it so much I created one similar. I think Lit helped me keep my sanity at one point in my life (while I slowly drove a few insane.)

It is always the same. Fluid. Ever changing, staying the same.


(Who knew I could be so damn mystical?)

 

[Black_Bird]

Re: Lit is and always has been "home sweet home."

I love this place, loved it so much I created one similar. I think Lit helped me keep my sanity at one point in my life (while I slowly drove a few insane.)

It is always the same. Fluid. Ever changing, staying the same.

(Who knew I could be so damn mystical?)

Heh... I've only seen you on really really old posts. Plan on making a comeback?

 

[Phoenyx]

is a senior literotican over 55 or 60? so many places have different age cut-offs for senior citizenship....i was just wondering....

what about previous identites and stuff...

 

[Black_Bird]

what about previous identites and stuff...

*THAT* counts I think...

 

[LukkyKnight]

Re: Something Has Changed

I agree it has a different feel to it these days.

...

As always, you have to wonder what really changed, me or the board.

Both, surely.

 

[april-wine]

Yes, it's home, and shut the bloody door were ya born in a barn.....*waving my cane as I speak* Well in my day whippersnappers had respect, yes respect I say for their elders.....We had to walk 5 miles each way to Lit in three feet of snow......*false teeth clicking as I natter*.............

 

[SINthysist]

No. It ain't my home.
No. I have no vested interest.
That is **************. A corporation which has vested interest. [See Laurel and Manu, I censored myself].

I used to think this was for authors of porn.
Now I know it is a Salon for those whom think they know...

And a money-maker.


Else why all the upgrades...

 

[Phoenyx]

I love this place.
YOu guys are like familly to me.

Familly mind you that I would fuck at the drop of a hat.

 

[Samuari]

No. It ain't my home.
No. I have no vested interest.
That is **************. A corporation which has vested interest. [See Laurel and Manu, I censored myself].

I used to think this was for authors of porn.
Now I know it is a Salon for those whom think they know...

And a money-maker.


Else why all the upgrades...

You say that like its a bad thing. You know for a conservitve, you sure have a lot of problems with Laurel and Manny making a buck from this site. I keep hoping that they'll make enough to realize that thier liberal congressmen are out to bankrupt them. I want them to make a LOT of money.

 

[Siren]

Yea this place has changed, but it is in constant change mode

 

[Wizard]

Does it still feel good to open up that first page and see everyone babbling away? Or has the board changed so drastically that you don't feel comfortable here anymore? Are you put off by all the new faces? Or is it one of the reasons why you keep coming back?

I have been here for quite some time now and still enjoy this place..........When I joined I posted all the time and as friends started to leave I posted less. Many old friends are still out there reading everyday but like myself they choose not to post all the time....

The boards changes alot and they funny thing now that I have watched it many times.......It dose the same shit over and over and over.........You can plainly watch it changing........You will know right where it is going and what is going to happen as you have watched it in the past........It is funny as hell I mean really funny shit......There will always be those that want attention.......those that have no respect for themself.........and the shit makers........It is great. Names change but the roles are the same. How could you miss this place? We are like brother and sisters here ......private things are shared with one another.............

There are many others who have been around for a while know what I mean.......



Do I still feel comfortable here......HELL yea..........Many don't really know me anymore but I know many and they still tell me when I need advise.....These are my friends..........

I like to see new faces..............they too will make the same mistakes we made when we joined.......It is great to see goodhearted folks here...............and in the same breath there is always an asshole around too.........

 

[Samuari]

Ya know I really think that it is about time. time to get to know a poster. Time to digest thier thiughts. Time to determine how I want to respond to them (if at all). And that is the thing that is most laking now because of all the new folks. Hell if you don't log in for a day you may not find the thread that you worked out the perfedct responce for without a pm to Cheyanne (where the hell is she anyway).

I think that the new faces have about the same percentage of jerks, liers, and freaks that we have always had. It is just that there are so many of 'em.

 

[Ksss]

I still feel like this is home even if I don't post much anymore. I still read the boards and on occassion offer up my two-cents. I started coming to Lit around October of 1999 but never registered until I became involved in the chatroom here. There are certain posters whose threads usually interest me so I usually start out looking to see if they have started anything new.