Well it seems I missed a right party!
Sprout! Now there's a sight for sore (bloodshot, itchy) eyes!
Been missing you around here mate - i hope you are well, friend.
I asked you in another thread what you would do if you caught a Paedophile molesting a child and you said you would go to the police. The fact you wouldn't intervene personslly tells me all I need to know about you.
Righto mate. By the same token, I think you are giving us quite an insight into your own mentality with the above comment.
Dismissively criticising SHM for not (hypothetically) engaging in vigilante "justice" -
especially when there are children involved? Hmmm.
It's macho nonsense - yet you continually play the victim. If you're ill-equipped to cope with people on the internet disagreeing with you, maybe you're better off avoiding contentious issues?
Another way of putting it is that there are some pretty smart people on this forum - if you want to get stuck in to some polarising debate, you might want to have a bit of a thicker skin when people call bullshit on your arguments.
Better yet, try advancing arguments that you can debate from an informed perspective, using supporting evidence.
That's kinda fundamental to having a constructive - or at least civil - debate.
Especially on matters such as child abuse and paedophilia.
It might come as a surprise to some, but quite a few bluelighters have perspectives that are a bit beyond the black/white, right/wrong oversimplified dogma that passes for "opinion" or "debate" in much of our contemporary media (mainstream press or not).
It might be a little confronting to encounter ideas that don't get much of a run in traditional media - but if you give the ideas a chance, you might just learn something.
Not bad for a website that consists solely of the contributions of volunteers, funded by donation and free of advertisements, eh?
Thanx consumer, are you stuck far enough up shms arse??
Senior members like you and some of the mods on here are the reason bluelight is dying.
You've been a member of BL for less than six months, your diagnoses on the health of the forum is a bit hard to take seriousky..
If you don't like the longtime members who have helped make this site/forum/community what it is - and take issue with various mods - nobody's forcing you to stick around.
You can keep this up, or you can drop the snarky attitude - but don't expect people to be polite if you roll in here and start insulting respected, longtime members and calling them paedophiles.
I would suggest that if bluelight were dead, we wouldn't have noobs bitching about how everyone has supposedly ganged up on them for expressing reactionary and xenophobic sentiments.
I reckon it's a decent indication that things
haven't completely gone to shit if people are still doing their best to uphold standards of basic decency (like not tolerating racism) and taking people to task for making outrageous allegations (like calling someone a paedophile).
Those are some of the ideological principles you come across in a community like bluelight - and they're somewhat reflected in the various forum guidlines and the user agreement - but they are also the values the community itself (and many individuals within it) want to maintain.
Nobody is forcing you to stick around, if you don't like that.
Nobody is telling you to leave, either (just to be clear) - but why some people spend so much time using bluelight to complain about it, i will never understand.
Bluelight is constantly changing, just like the wider world. Some people love the changes that take place - others don't.
Lots of changes are completely out of our collective hands.
One thing is totally within our control - yours, mine and everyone's. We
all have the choice to make the most of what bluelight has to offer, or if we don't like it, we don't need to contribute (or even lurk).
The other choice is to whine about the site and those of us who post here.
It's entirely up to you - it's not bluelight's fault if you don't appreciate what we are doing here. Can't please everyone. But for your own sake, you should decide whether you want to get emotionally involved in discussions with strangers on the internet over political and social issues.