SnapDragon
Filthy Letch
Smite's competition thread, which I think was a valid topic for this site, got closed, and I seem to recall reading another thread started by him on the topic, which has since disappeared. I'm starting to find the overzealous moderation of this board a trifle annoying -- several threads have been shunted into different fora, and it seems to me a bit of a minefield in that posters have to phrase threads in a way to indicate that they are specifically concerned with the BHMFFA aspect in order to avoid being moved. I'm not trying to stir up anything nasty here, I'm merely hoping to register my opinion and perhaps persuade the moderators to be a bit more open minded.
Dimensions the site, and most of these boards, is concerned mainly with the appreciation of BBW. That's great -- big ladies have to put up with enough crap, they deserve a site exclusively for them. But I'm not a large lady or an (sexual) admirer of such, so I only come here to use this particular forum. Asides from a general fat acceptance attitude and support of NAAFA, Dimensions rarely ventures away from the BBWFA community -- this forum is out on the fringes with a bit of overlap. I use this forum because I think it is the best available venue to discuss what I come here to discuss, and also because of loyalty (I was one of the old members of the forum before this one). I never use the other fora here, and I suspect there are plenty of other thin women and fat men who aren't FAs who don't either. There is of course overlap with the FABHM and FFABBW individuals who use the other fora, which is good and enriches the community, and ensures communication between these two communities. Now, I wasn't exactly enamoured of the forum side of Smite's BHMFFA connection site as I think this forum serves the community quite adequately, but one thing this forum is lacking is the other support Smite is offering for this specific community. If you start making umpteen fora all over the place, at best one is going to be used and the others ignored, at worst the community is going to get fractionated. But this board doesn't offer other facilities for this culture.
If someone who is not part of the community comes on here and posts irrelevant remarks and adverts for plastic surgery or some other rubbish, or if some anti-fat fundamentalist comes on here and starts trolling the place, then this is what moderators are for. Ya, I can imagine that moderators do a thankless job, and the site would be in a mess without them. But moderators, please, keep in mind that this is a community, and as a community it needs its own space to develop and grow. A thread that's about feederism/ fantasies/ food/ other topics, when posted by a regular contributor, doesn't necessarily belong on another board, and I think Smite's site should be supported -- as complementary to this forum -- as Dimensions the site and the other fora aren't geared towards fat men and their admirers. This forum is a great forum, but it's not and it shouldn't be an island.
(Saving what I wrote in case it gets censor'd)
-SnapDragon.
Dimensions the site, and most of these boards, is concerned mainly with the appreciation of BBW. That's great -- big ladies have to put up with enough crap, they deserve a site exclusively for them. But I'm not a large lady or an (sexual) admirer of such, so I only come here to use this particular forum. Asides from a general fat acceptance attitude and support of NAAFA, Dimensions rarely ventures away from the BBWFA community -- this forum is out on the fringes with a bit of overlap. I use this forum because I think it is the best available venue to discuss what I come here to discuss, and also because of loyalty (I was one of the old members of the forum before this one). I never use the other fora here, and I suspect there are plenty of other thin women and fat men who aren't FAs who don't either. There is of course overlap with the FABHM and FFABBW individuals who use the other fora, which is good and enriches the community, and ensures communication between these two communities. Now, I wasn't exactly enamoured of the forum side of Smite's BHMFFA connection site as I think this forum serves the community quite adequately, but one thing this forum is lacking is the other support Smite is offering for this specific community. If you start making umpteen fora all over the place, at best one is going to be used and the others ignored, at worst the community is going to get fractionated. But this board doesn't offer other facilities for this culture.
If someone who is not part of the community comes on here and posts irrelevant remarks and adverts for plastic surgery or some other rubbish, or if some anti-fat fundamentalist comes on here and starts trolling the place, then this is what moderators are for. Ya, I can imagine that moderators do a thankless job, and the site would be in a mess without them. But moderators, please, keep in mind that this is a community, and as a community it needs its own space to develop and grow. A thread that's about feederism/ fantasies/ food/ other topics, when posted by a regular contributor, doesn't necessarily belong on another board, and I think Smite's site should be supported -- as complementary to this forum -- as Dimensions the site and the other fora aren't geared towards fat men and their admirers. This forum is a great forum, but it's not and it shouldn't be an island.
(Saving what I wrote in case it gets censor'd)
-SnapDragon.
