Responsibilities of an OL submissive?

[denuseri]

In my book this whole question of responsibility in an online enviroment as opposed to a real life one may be better served by clairifaction that the two should remain distictly seperate from the other for obvious reasons. One can never truely know the person on the other side of that screen. They can only think they do. Real trust, takes real time, in real life to earn with real deeds etc. Actual submission in real life in no way shape or form comparable with pretending submission via typing on a keyboard. It is as different as mountian climbing is to climbing the rock wall in the gym...in fact its not even that close really if all one is doing is typing...regardless of how "submissive' typing can make one feel about it.

I would further seperate online only from "long distance" since the latter suggests that the two people involved have at least met each other face to face at least once. (mabey thats the rock wall)

As to what someone (regardless of claims to titular distinction such as dom/submissive etc) in an online medium is responsible for:

On this site its rather simple and found with the following links both of which are self explandatory:

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...ums-Guidelines

and:

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...elines-amp-FAQ

In so far as in real life?

Where one may quite litterally find their lives in someone else's hands?

Well there is no disconnect button there the web cam cant be shut off at a whim and one can safe word all day long until they are blue in the face and it wont mean a thing unless there is first "respect" between the involved parties.


Its the core tenant of the older more tradtional ways that so very few seem to be able to find instruction in anymore.

If you have respect you get all the rest (honesty, honnor, responsibility etc) in it's wake.