Originally posted by barney+Feb 5 2005, 08:49 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(barney @ Feb 5 2005, 08:49 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-madame_zora@Feb 5 2005, 07:22 PM
You see, this is why I put up the note about not wanting pmms from lurkers, but apparently this one is too stupid to read my signature. I got this today:
pinewoodie clitoris sucking......., Today, 02:27 AMÂ Â
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Hmm. I find your signature a little peculiar really (but would still defend your right to it of course). What if you received a PM from someone who
is literate and who
does have something to say that's of interest to you? I gather from your posts that you've made some friends in here, which is great, but clearly this can't have happened without a few exchanges in the forums first. Is it the case that people too reticent to broadcast their thoughts to the internet (something I wouldn't hold against anyone) couldn't, by definition, have anything to say that you'd want to read?
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No, absolutely not! Let me go further to add that if anyone doesn't want to broadcast their thoughts publicly, I have absolutley NO INTEREST AT ALL in their thoughts' personal problems, shyness issues, politics, or whatever. I NEVER appreciate pmms from strangers, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So rest assured that if anyone sends them to me, particularly if they are this abrupt and rude, they will go on my list of people NOT to bother getting to know.
Here's what you don't understand (sigh), that I've explained 1,000 times. I have told my whole life story on here, so lurkers know me fairly well. For me to get to know each individual person that well would take so much time out of my life I literally couldn't work to support myself. I know this because it happened when I first joined this site. The man-to-woman ratio is far too huge, and I literally don't have the time (nor the interest) to devote that much of myself to someone about whom I know nothing. Period. Sometimes a newbie or lurker will post on a thread and ask for comments from certain members, and I find this fine, and even nice, but I don't want pmms from anyone with less than 25 to 30 posts, so I at least have a clue who they are, what brought them here, what they care about, how they treat others, etc. It's my right to spend my time how I choose, and I choose not to waste it playing "getting to know you" over and over (and over and over) with lurkers.