Words from the 'nilla among you......

[april-wine]

I am not part of your world, honestly I never really understood it until I met cymbidia....With her honesty and understanding, she answered my naive questions....She cleared up many of misunderstandings....She took the time to make me see the world you all live in, she helped me see what you often deal with....Then I saw you all here in this forum, I read, I cruised, I posted a little....I grew to envy the feel of the BDSM board...the GB can be harsh at times....

cym is my friend, I am blessed to call her that....Her voice has pushed from us and that is, in itself a terrible loss....Lucky for me I will never lose that voice forever...but the loss for those among us who are new.....Who are naive.....Who just don't understand....A wonderful caring, guiding, explaining,teaching, listening voice is now silenced....

It is a sad day....not only for us....but for cym

 

[DustyWolfe]

I am not part of your world, honestly I never really understood it until I met cymbidia....With her honesty and understanding, she answered my naive questions....She cleared up many of misunderstandings....She took the time to make me see the world you all live in, she helped me see what you often deal with....Then I saw you all here in this forum, I read, I cruised, I posted a little....I grew to envy the feel of the BDSM board...the GB can be harsh at times....

cym is my friend, I am blessed to call her that....Her voice has pushed from us and that is, in itself a terrible loss....Lucky for me I will never lose that voice forever...but the loss for those among us who are new.....Who are naive.....Who just don't understand....A wonderful caring, guiding, explaining,teaching, listening voice is now silenced....

It is a sad day....not only for us....but for cym

Unfortunately this board can be just as harsh, and it only takes one person to totally disrupt the flow of things. This greatly saddens me. I can't help but wonder though if Cym will return to us after she has had time to cool off. Not everyone has it out for her and many of us will greatly miss her.
Let's just hope that I'm right and that she will see that she is missed and return.

 

[MissTaken]

Cym's contribution to the boards went well beyond the BDSM forum.

Thank you, april-wine for your post and thread.

I can only say that I share your sentiments and really dont' have much to add.

 

[rubymyst]

she was one of the first i interacted with in this bewildering maze of words and opinions.
cym came across as a kind thoughtful nurturing person whose thoughts and emotions ran deep.
its not often one comes across someone like her on the net.
i shall miss her very much

 

[Guest]

HOW and WHY

did the above post by rubymyst get edited by James Blandings?

 

[MissTaken]

Re: HOW and WHY

did the above post by rubymyst get edited by James Blandings?

You could pm James and ask him?

 

[rubymyst]

he informed me

 

[Daddyslilpet]

he informed me

Good answer rubymyst.....and welcome...I've not said hello to you yet I don't think.

As for missing cym...I feel saddened at the loss of her knowledge and experience, not purely for myself but for the others that will come here. I do hope that one day she'll decide that she can return. She is greatly missed.

This board is working towards healing itself. We all have to work together to make it the special place it is, and will remain to be.


dixi

 

[cellis]

There is an exsisting void on this board left by the departure of cym... and others as well.

As we try to heal now, I can only hope that those that chose to leave this forum will return to us in the future. There has been a wealth of knowlege walk out the door this week.

I think we all feel the sting of the loss... I know I do.

 

[James Blandings]

Re: HOW and WHY

did the above post by rubymyst get edited by James Blandings?

How is because I am a moderator and have the tools to edit posts.
Why is none of your business.
Let me make my position very clear and as simple to understand as possible.
I will not discuss my reasoning for editing posts with anyone except the poster in question, the other moderators, or the site owners. In particular I will not discuss my decisions with trolls.
In this particular case, I made a minor change in rubymyst's post that in no way effected the tone or meaning of what she had to say, I informed her of my reason for doing so, and she graciously acknowledged her understanding of my actions.
That ends the matter as far as I am concerned.

 

[Lancecastor]

Re: Re: HOW and WHY

I love the Moderators.

They are beautiful and wise in their ways.

Lance "Stepford" Castor

 

[RisiaSkye]

Re: Re: Re: HOW and WHY

I learned something new today....I was lead to believe by Cym just a few days ago that this was not possible.

Cool....

Lance

No, you weren't. You just have low reading comprehension, apparently. And I say that with all respect, of course.

 

[Lancecastor]

Re: Re: Re: Re: HOW and WHY

I love the Moderators.

They are beautiful and wise in their ways.

Lance "Stepford" Castor

 

[RisiaSkye]

Apples and oranges. Posts *can* be edited, in that there is an "edit" function on the Mod screen. However, they aren't edited unless they violate Forum rules--such as by posting personal information like names and email addresses. Content issues that boil down to "I don't like what they said" are not a Moderator issue unless the posts violate the basic rules. This lenience in content is given in respect to the host site (Literotica) Free Speech committment, and in response to lengthy diatribes in protest of removing unregistered troll posts less than a month ago.

Now, does *that* answer the question?

 

[Lancecastor]

Yeah, that'll do.

I love the Moderators.

They are beautiful and wise in their ways.

Lance "Stepford" Castor

 

[Sandia]

This lenience in content is given in respect to the host site (Literotica) Free Speech committment,

I doubt the owner of Literotica would tolerate a moderator who censored people based on the content of what they said.

 

[RisiaSkye]

Yes, Sandia, that was the point of the post.

Hello and welcome to Lit’s BDSM Forum. Our rules here are simple and few, attributes that we hope make them as easy to adhere to as they are to understand.

BDSM Forum Rules
1. No spam
2. No personals ads
3. No posting of another's personal information
4. No posting of your own private email address
5. No threats


Please read the following thread for detailed information pertaining to SSC conventions: Safe, Sane & Consensual: Words to Live By http://www.literotica.com/forum/sho...?threadid=70084

For those of you seeking knowledge of the BDSM lifestyle in online places, particularly in chat rooms, please read The Online Predator http://www.literotica.com/forum/sho...?threadid=81203.

Additionally, there’s a wealth of information about the genesis of this forum, about some of the long-time forum members as individuals, and the skin-to-skin practice of BDSM in general threaded throughout what we affectionately call the M thread (Mega, Monster, or Mother thread). It’s located here: http://www.literotica.com/forum/sho...&threadid=39661

In this forum, our focus is on BDSM sexuality as it’s played out in real life, skin-to-skin relationships. We’re not a chat room and don’t wish to be a place where chat room type BDSM dialogue occurs within our threads and permeates our discussions.

We want you to feel free, however, to express your fears and voice your concerns in an open way. This is a supportive and caring environment for your real-world based BDSM issues. We're not psychatrists, though, or therapists; if you need one of those, you'll have to find them elsewhere.

Again, welcome to our community. We thank you in advance for respecting the deliberately cultivated atmosphere of acceptance, inclusion, reality, and calm discussion that we’ve so carefully fostered here over time.

The BDSM Forum Moderators

 

[april-wine]

Thanks for reposting the rules Risia, I will try not to break them....Though I will state now, anything I write I am prepared to back up....I would not appreciate being "edited"....


Thank-you all for your time....You will be missed cym.....

 

[RisiaSkye]

Reading over the thread...clarification

april, you're welcome here--the rules were posted for the benefit of all who've been left a bit in the air at the departure of cymbidia. I didn't post them in an attempt to make you uncomfortable, nor to treat you like a "newbie." I have no doubt you'll follow them; you've not given me any reason to suspect otherwise.