I Have a Suggestion for Similar Worlds

Could we please clean up the questions on here?

I am not a prude. If you want to "do it", do it and more power to you. But lately, we have been getting pretty rude and crude, and what gets on the system is boring or repetitive. Nobody wants to know how many times you did it last night and with who and what you were thinking while you were.

There are other things to pursue on here. Other people write them and are well-received for their posts. But some of the more descriptive folks get very raunchy replies from others. I thought we left that kindergarten stuff behind when we left EP.

Let's act a little more grown-up, okay?

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MaryJanine · 61-69, F

@MarkPaul I started OUT on EP. It was "pedestrian" and fine for awhile. Then I had a few off-color posts. I did what you suggested and at first, ignored them. They got raunchier over time, and then we had that one idiot who sent everybody and their grandmother 8X10 dirty pictures - no posts. I deleted these, which lasted a while. Then I got (still get) the jokers who want to know if I was into getting or giving spankings. Good God - I gave none of these fools the slightest inclination or encouragement! These I blocked. Still they come.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@MaryJanine No doubt you enjoy the benefits of living in a relatively free society with the premise that free speech is, on the whole a good thing. There is a trade-off though. If all you are doing is blowing off steam, then "free speech" is in your corner. If you want censorship designed to limit objectionable content, then you are in the "bad guy" corner.

Public forums are not for the faint of heart. Anonymity breeds the type of behaviour you find reprehensible. And, if you self-declare yourself as vulnerable you literally are putting a target on your screen name. Perhaps you would be better suited to a community book club or a website moderated for children.

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

@MarkPaul I am NOT faint of heart. I know and realize "reprehensible behavior" is out there. When I joined SW, there were a few (but far between) posts that were a bit raunchy. I figured, more power to these few.

But it's gotten a little bit out of hand lately. Every so many posts carry a innuendo subject, some of them VERY graphic, some with photos or pictures, People who reply to these types seem to belong to an unannounced contest for posters to outgross each other. Sometimes to the brink of insanity. Or so it seems.

If this is your meat and potatoes, fine and more power to you. However, this is a public forum and a general question which is a "hot button" type. I have a perfect RIGHT to state how I feel about said question. You do not know me well enough to call me "vulnerable".

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@MaryJanine Review and discuss the context of "if you self-declare yourself as vulnerable." I think you will find it to reveal something other than the way you chose to take it.

The point is what you and I may find reprehensible is someone else's "meat and potatoes" and vice versa. I don't know you at all, but it seems you choose to be easily offended at the slightest provocation. And, that is representative of someone who is faint of heart despite their protestations.

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

@MarkPaul "Defense" is more that the picket line between two farms.

Let's be honest. We don't know each other well enough to say what "offends" me and what doesn't. Name-calling is just judgemental and only a label.

I am no prude. I know things exist out there. I just don't choose to see so many at one time. I don't hope to clean up the entire website by saying what I did - it is MY OPINION and I don't insist anyone do it my way.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@MaryJanine YOU are announcing what offends you. YOU are revealing it outright. I KNOW what offends you because you have told me what offends YOU.

And, I understand why you might find crude words, specific language, certain types of pictures, innuendos, and questions offensive. I find some of those same things inappropriate.

But you seem to want some "central committee" to ban someone else's right to free expression instead of moderating your own actions to protect you from your own lack of self-discipline. And, I find that very idea... centralized censorship... to be offensive.

YOUR OPINION isn't the only one that counts. And, if you don't want to see the harsh realities of the world beyond your own carefully constructed four walls, then learn how to effectively block, ignore, turn the other way, stick your head in the sand, or any other multiple ways to avoid what in YOUR OPINION is objectionable.

Calling for "cleaning up the questions" though does suggest you are insisting, and not subtly, that everyone does it your way. I find it a bit beyond belief that you can't acknowledge that let alone see that. But, that does demonstrate you have the skill set to be oblivious. Just apply that skill set to questions you don't like and YOUR problem will be resolved.

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

@MarkPaul I can't be hung for an OPINION. Neither did I SAY "you have to" anywhere. Nor did I say MY OPINION was the only one that counted, or be associated with a "central committee" to clean up ANYTHING.

I ALREADY block and turn the other way. I have seen the "harsh realities of the world" in many shapes and forms. I know I can't have everything my way. When I entered that post, it was intended as a suggestion - nothing more.

Just because I don't like certain postings doesn't mean I don't see the world as it is. The two things aren't the same. I never said anything and everybody has to do things the way I want. I don't need to "avoid" anything, thank YOU very much.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@MaryJanine Okay, well fine then. I appreciate your open-minded orientation.