L`après-post

Well, three days after I alerted you all to a blog posting I made off-site, no one has de-friended me and I even had a few join. That’s certainly reassuring. In trying to make some sense of what the rules are and how they are applied, I did my best to locate all the material prepared by the site owner, Team True One (TT1), to make sure I wasn’t basing any of my decisions on the interpretation of any other member. I put these statements in a Compendium athttp://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=10145. The summary shows what TT1 had in mind when creating this site and keeping it functioning optimally. There has been some debate as to whether the examples I chose for my blog posting were appropriate to properly explain my position, and I understand that. I tried to be as general as possible because this applies to all members, not just a few. One person wrote in to say that what had been written in the examples I mentioned wasn’t even sexually suggestive. I can’t come right out and say they’re wrong because part of the problem is “sexually suggestive” is a very general term which can be applied widely or narrowly. Sexual advances and solicitations are definitely sexually suggestive. Just talking honestly about sexuality or sexual aspects of lifeshouldn’tbe. In between the two, there is a wide continuum, and one of the deciding factors could be the intention of the writer. Another deciding factor could be the degree of “explicitness” in the posting. So far, there is no “case law” telling us what falls within the realm of “acceptable” and what doesn’t. Instead, we flag and see what TT1’s reaction will be. Groups are created on this site all the time. In most cases, there are no problems. In some cases though, a group for, say, swinging or masturbation is created. Due to the obvious reference to sexual activity, the group is soon flagged and, usually, disappears (there are a few exceptions for which I have yet to find any logical explanation). In between are groups which could go either way depending on how well the creator and moderators do their job and how well the members follow the rules. I was told that if I don’t like what’s being written in a particular group, I can just avoid visiting the group, like I would avoid a TV channel where I didn’t agree with the programming. It was assumed that I was offended by what was written or otherwise posted. Not at all! I enjoy reading postings of that nature. Really, I do. One of my concerns was whether a member could unwittingly set him- or herself up to be booted out bby not paying enough attention to what he or she posts on the site. There is at least one reported example of a member who was honestly trying to stand up for standards on the site and was booted off because she was drawn into a flame fest on chat. Whether we like it or not, these things happen. A group was even set up in reaction to this:http://www.truenudists.com/group/1743.[url=../group/1743][/url] As members we are tasked with helping this site self-police. The “legislation” we’re given to work with are the rules, some of which are in the above-mentioned Compendium. We’re also given a wide range of latitude. Some flag at the first opportunity, while others wait and see how things develop. In that sense, maybe it’s a good thing TT1 is the only one with absolute power.