Well I certainly don't have any personal problem with members reporting threads for being out of place in here. I wish one or two of those who do so regularly would be a smidgen more polite about it but even that I can live with :biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1:
For me a couple of issues have been raised in this discussion already which I'd like to offer an opinion on. The first is about why threads should fit the forum they're posted in.
Certainly we allow a fair degree of latitude across the board on this kind of thing, mostly because of natural overlap in terms of subject matter between the stated intent of the forums. Sometimes a discussion which might appear to be better off in Relationships ends up Sex with a Large Penis, or and Etc question ends up thriving in Appearance issues and vice versa etc etc.
But in general terms the reason I think it's important for threads to fit the stated purpose of the forum their posted in is a practical one (shocking though that may be to one or two members who probably think me motivated by a radical feminist agenda LOL). Ultimately there is little or no point in having differentiated forums if we don't keep those forums roughly related to the intended topics of discussion they were created for. If we allow totally free form thread posting then we ought to do away with differentiated forums which would hinder that and make it less easy to find what you want in this free form environment. Basically its about keeping things organised and making things easier for members.
So in a differentiated forums situation a member should be able to search Sex With a Large Penis for issues relating to sex with a large penis, if a large number of questions about sex with a large penis end up being in this forum instead members will either not find what they're looking for or find it here instead and presume this is an annex of the Sex With a Large Penis forum and start posting all kinds of threads about that kind of discussion in here, thus completely negating the purpose in having these two separate forums in the first place. I apply that logic to deciding where I think any given thread in any given forum should be.
The same is true across the boards. One of the principle objections I personally have to allowing the Ask Women a question threads to proliferate in here (even when the question in question would be better asked in other forums) is that its abundantly obvious that female members use the rest of the site and can and do answer questions of every kind in all parts of the boards. Male members seeking to garner only female responses by posting in this forum will be disappointed because male members use this forum too and besides OPs don't get to dictate who responds and who doesn't to their thread and that's as it should be.
Members who assume that Women's Issues is a kind of women's ghetto which is the best place to seek female member's input make a number of wrong presumptions about women, about female LPSG members, about how the site works and about what to expect from thread creation on any internet discussion board.
I personally don't think it's a good idea to encourage those presumptions.
As an aside I've been told off (extremely rudely sometimes) by male members on occasion for moving a thread from this forum because they claimed their thread was about issues relating to heterosexual sex (despite the fact we have a whole forum for discussion of sex with a large penis) and that their intended discussion was supposed to be between men and women (despite the fact we have a relationships forum), and what the hell did I think I knew about such things (being as I am a gay and all)? And fuck you blah blah blah. I'm pretty certain most of our female members would aver such attitudes and be insulted that someone wanted to use the forum designated for discussion of women's issues to enforce a de facto sexual apartheid. Well I'd hope so at least.
The second issue that's seems to have come up relates to the reason Nudey may have started this thread. I know he can speak for himself, so this is merely my take on it. I think that if we see an increase of reporting of threads from this forum or more importantly a change in the kind of threads that get reported that indicates a change of one kind or another in the kinds of threads which members who use this forum believe are appropriate discussions for the forum's intended purpose.
That means it's important for the Mods to have some advice from those who use this forum regularly on what they think is a Women's Issue and what they think isn't. Because it allows us to make a better judgement when casting our vote on reports. So that when the current crop of members use the site they are getting the best service it's within our power to provide, within whatever restrictions are imposed by matters beyond our control, such as creating new forums.
For me a couple of issues have been raised in this discussion already which I'd like to offer an opinion on. The first is about why threads should fit the forum they're posted in.
Certainly we allow a fair degree of latitude across the board on this kind of thing, mostly because of natural overlap in terms of subject matter between the stated intent of the forums. Sometimes a discussion which might appear to be better off in Relationships ends up Sex with a Large Penis, or and Etc question ends up thriving in Appearance issues and vice versa etc etc.
But in general terms the reason I think it's important for threads to fit the stated purpose of the forum their posted in is a practical one (shocking though that may be to one or two members who probably think me motivated by a radical feminist agenda LOL). Ultimately there is little or no point in having differentiated forums if we don't keep those forums roughly related to the intended topics of discussion they were created for. If we allow totally free form thread posting then we ought to do away with differentiated forums which would hinder that and make it less easy to find what you want in this free form environment. Basically its about keeping things organised and making things easier for members.
So in a differentiated forums situation a member should be able to search Sex With a Large Penis for issues relating to sex with a large penis, if a large number of questions about sex with a large penis end up being in this forum instead members will either not find what they're looking for or find it here instead and presume this is an annex of the Sex With a Large Penis forum and start posting all kinds of threads about that kind of discussion in here, thus completely negating the purpose in having these two separate forums in the first place. I apply that logic to deciding where I think any given thread in any given forum should be.
The same is true across the boards. One of the principle objections I personally have to allowing the Ask Women a question threads to proliferate in here (even when the question in question would be better asked in other forums) is that its abundantly obvious that female members use the rest of the site and can and do answer questions of every kind in all parts of the boards. Male members seeking to garner only female responses by posting in this forum will be disappointed because male members use this forum too and besides OPs don't get to dictate who responds and who doesn't to their thread and that's as it should be.
Members who assume that Women's Issues is a kind of women's ghetto which is the best place to seek female member's input make a number of wrong presumptions about women, about female LPSG members, about how the site works and about what to expect from thread creation on any internet discussion board.
I personally don't think it's a good idea to encourage those presumptions.
As an aside I've been told off (extremely rudely sometimes) by male members on occasion for moving a thread from this forum because they claimed their thread was about issues relating to heterosexual sex (despite the fact we have a whole forum for discussion of sex with a large penis) and that their intended discussion was supposed to be between men and women (despite the fact we have a relationships forum), and what the hell did I think I knew about such things (being as I am a gay and all)? And fuck you blah blah blah. I'm pretty certain most of our female members would aver such attitudes and be insulted that someone wanted to use the forum designated for discussion of women's issues to enforce a de facto sexual apartheid. Well I'd hope so at least.
The second issue that's seems to have come up relates to the reason Nudey may have started this thread. I know he can speak for himself, so this is merely my take on it. I think that if we see an increase of reporting of threads from this forum or more importantly a change in the kind of threads that get reported that indicates a change of one kind or another in the kinds of threads which members who use this forum believe are appropriate discussions for the forum's intended purpose.
That means it's important for the Mods to have some advice from those who use this forum regularly on what they think is a Women's Issue and what they think isn't. Because it allows us to make a better judgement when casting our vote on reports. So that when the current crop of members use the site they are getting the best service it's within our power to provide, within whatever restrictions are imposed by matters beyond our control, such as creating new forums.
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