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SEASONEDpolyAgain

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I've always thought it was good that the site is fully accessible to guests/visitors. However, I also think that it might help people feel safer about posting more personal issues and questions if they knew they could post somewhere that isn't accessible to everyone and won't appear in Google searches. People could feel less inclined to ask for people to message them personally and those who just want to "slide into DMs" have next to no excuse for not asking the forum generally.

I know money might be a factor here, but if it isn't, I think having a closed section might be worth considering.
 
Hopefully an admin will reply to this next time they are online.
 
I'm mixed, How hard is it, really? to neutralize your posts down to "plausbile deniability" - SO many of the stories here could be re-hashes of scenes we have seen before. If no one is trying to actually DOX our participtants? Personally, I wouldn't trust ANY reassurances that our postings are in ANY way private and that we should continue to encourage people to be as enigmatic as they care to be. I LIKE the 12 hour (re-think it) window and feel that should be publicized more - drunk Jane said "x" in the heat of the moment, sober Jane said "Whoa mama, no Gang Bang tonight"- but if you asked a legit question and got a legit answer then that might educate the next round of rovers...welll, context is everything...
 
This has been brought up before and there were reasons why they didn't do it, but I can't remember what they were. It wasn't because of money, though.
 
Maybe this was the conversion you’re thinking of? The concept was that registration is so easy that putting things behind a wall is perceived privacy, not real.

Post in thread 'Changelog'
https://polyamory.com/threads/changelog.1820/post-16767

That said, google is a different beast in 2023 than it was in 2009 so it may or may not be worth revisiting the idea.
 
I thought it was more recent than that, like within the past few years. I seem to remember Ravenscroft reacting by trying to get people to start "Social Groups" on the old VBulletin system, which was well after 2009 (maybe around 2017 or 2018). This forum was *started* in 2009, so there has been a lot of discussion about "We should do this or that" since then. But I don't see anything like "Social Groups" on this platform (Xenforo).
 
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