Quote Originally Posted by jeanne View Post
One thing to remember in defense of the F & G forum - it's a wonderful place for newbies to come to and have a little fun and meet members in a more relaxed atmosphere tthan chat. When I came to the library, I tried both. Hated chat, loved F & G. I don't go there too much any more, but I met some wonderful people there...Pertez, louise, DungeonMaster6, Hawk_Fann come to mind right away...there can be some fun conversations going on in those silly posts.

As for the awards based on post count - who cares? For those to whom post counts and thanks counts are important...go for it. For the rest of us who measure our worth differently...we'll just do our thing.
I'm very much with Jeanne here, and it's no accident we bonded fast as soon as she appaeared on the Games board. I didn't find the chat a place that was easy to adapt to and actually get through in a nuanced way - the number of people, the hail of short lines meshed through with shorts and signspeak - and then bleak silence sometimes - made it hard to focus easily on one or two people when you wanted to. I don't communicate in punchlines, sometimes I need to be a bit longer, more written, or keep to a line of questions and that's not easily done in a chat log - simply gets lost in the flow of single-lines and talk (I know the kind of "internet lingo": b4, fyi, lmao, kind of dot-to-dot phrases, but didn't grow up with it, and not being native to English that kind of chat talk sometimes won't kick in with me). F&G proved much more supple and like Jeanne, I feel it sometimes worked as a kind of submerged one-on-one talk. So the idea of dropping F&G, apart from not being realistic, would also make this a much harder and stonier place to get into, and it might pull more people who pretend to have spent fifteen years in r/l bdsm relationships because that would be a surefire way to get recognized.

One thing that's precious about the Library is that it's open to newcomers and people without a lot of experience, taking account of that you don't have to live up to an ideal image of a Dominant or sub. While F&G and some other forums may seem loose some of the time, and shirking some of the attention (I agree some of the posting on F&G is a bit routinish) they help guard that open vibe to the place.