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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Maybe you would like to reflect and comment upon how that objective is met nowadays
It was to provide a place were people in pain could come and start the horrible process of unburdening themselves of that pain.
Some people have continuous pain, for others it is transient. But the common thread was to be that people in pain, by sharing their triumphs and disasters, would help other people in pain. And so the forum spluttered into life, a long time ago.
It has not always been the easiest place to be, especially when range wars broke out, but it stayed broadly in line with its original purpose. It has been unique in the set of sites I know about in that difficult topics have been discussed, topics that society may even view as unwholesome in the current prurient times it has chosen for itself.
But it seems to me that no-one in pain comes here now, and difficult topics seems to be deflected.
Does that chime with your view? If so, why has that happened? If not, how do you see that it is true to the original objectives?
Should this forum even continue? Does it have any value at all any more?
Tell me why I should care about it today.
Tell me why it should remain online.
Would you even miss it?
Or shall I just change it completely to make it a banal, back biting clique of queens bitching about the latest story somewhere on the net? Would that work?
This forum costs a huge amount of disk space. Luckily we have other sites that fund it with advertising. The server breaks even, and for that I am thankful. But what would you do if you had to fund my server costs out of your own pocket each month? Would you keep this forum running?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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