nynakedtop

Try using Google Translate and inform them that you do not enjoy having your feet touched at all and would like a massage but please do not touch your feet.

I don't think you need to apologise!

Welcome to the forums.  Don't let a troll ... bully you out of here.  Give it some time for participants to offer meaningful comments / advice - point you in the right direction.  If you haven't spent the time to read through the many archived discussions, some of which answer newbie questions, please do so.  

I wish more of  readers of trip reports here would be such kind hearted

One of my favorite CoM members who has historically varied from displaying his inflated sense of self and his anger management issues likes to refer to people he disagrees with as "the crazies" over here.
Somehow, the QAnon'ers over there cannot help but revert to their compulsive behaviors given half a chance. Of course the mods look the other way as long as no one ventures even slightly to the left of center.
Other than such amusing displays, for those of us who find our porn elsewhere, the site has become pretty darn boring I would say.

Thanks for sharing that....Wonder what happened that finally pushed them over the edge?
I guess anything that deprives the QAnon pond scum a forum is a good thing though.

Getting back to the OP topic,  all this analysis aside,  if the opinions of the management lean MAGA-right,  I would not/was not interested in participating in that rhetoric... And it seemed the Politics Forum operated in that bubble, so for me, Syonara Baby !     And now that the Politics Forum has been erased, the rest of the site holds no interest for me, and most of the other forums get very light traffic,  usually only the usual suspects and an occasional Rando who thinks it might be cool to make his first post. 

Depends what one means by that. I don't have the statistics, but overall I think traffic there has decreased by a good 3/4 since they took down the politics forum. The website should serve its members, not its moderators. Ignoring this reality will lead to members voting with their feet. 

Like all social media trolls, they refused to accept clearly proven facts and evidence that didn't support their opinions.
They'd simply say that a quoted or cited source was "notoriously liberal" or "lying media" to indicate that it wasn't true. All trolls do that rather than engage with proven facts.

I've always been a believer that "everything happens for a reason"...   Sometimes it just takes a little longer to figure out that reason.... At the moment, I am trying to figure out the REASON that noone, not Garland, Smith or even Fani Willis has brought any charges against ANYONE at the top.     Sure there have been some foot soldier convictions,  but none of this can be resolved without holding TRUMP and all his accomplices accountable.   Perhaps thats WHY our 4 crazies are so emboldened,  because they feel those people CANT/WONT be touched ?     I dont believe there will be any top tier indictments.   Thats why things are moving so slow, hoping the American people will just FORGET about it and find something else to focus on....   And by then Trump will be President AGAIN or the clock will have run out on any possible resolution.   Those crafty DOJ people !   

You must be watching a different movie than I ?    Healthy & striving ?    That's a stretch..... more like barely hangin on.  Without the chaos and vigor of the Politics forum, its just another banal site for people to discuss nothing....   So be it.
About venting......hardly.   I havent posted HERE is over 2 years, and over there its a year.   If I wanted or needed to vent, there were plenty or earlier opportunities.....  I saw the discussion here and decided to comment as I had some related experience to share.    And what's with the drama ?    People storming out ?   Hardly.   they simply left or were kicked out without fanfare.....Your poetic license is confusing .   

funny and sad....
as i recall BnaC bragged about his heterosexuality...
he exhibited bizarre obsessive/compulsive disorder traits in his postings but i guess we should add to his list of atypical behaviors Identity Crisis 101!
i wish we could bid good riddance to that particularly disagreeable person, but, like the man who came to dinner he seems incapable of knowing when and where he is not wanted!

thank you for sharing this shameful chapter in the story of that site - clearly the mods are perfectly comfortable giving a safe platform for those who do the work of the ultra-right towards destroying our community. i was purged in a matter of moments -- the mods let fascists, racists, and homophobes have a safe secure and comfortable platform for their hate.
shame on them all.

This thread discussed further back the no-hijacking rule over at the other site and also discussed the recent thread being locked.  I just looked at that thread.   The OP wanted to discuss hiring straight escorts.  Sadly, members chose to be triggered by it rather than focusing on what the OP wanted to discuss.  One can see where that ended up.  Generally there are enough scatterbrained members alone as well as those that have zero empathy (let's talk about everything I know and fuck all what you want) that the "no-hijacking" rule was a worthy guideline.  I used to try steering back to the OP to help out.  I guess I have at least an ounce of empathy.
But I was one of the boycotters last year and like Sukrates did, I ultimately dropped off that Forum.  I spend the time that I used to burn over there by listening to political blogs on YouTube such as Bryan Tyler Cohen; Ben Meisales on MidasTouch; and a lesser known but very clever guy from NYC David Feldman.  If not for David Feldman I wouldn't know Ann Coulter's term for Nicky Haley, "BabyCakes". 
But back to the OP, I agree with NYNakedTop, that forum was fertile ground for members coming from conspiracy sites to spread QAnon (and Kremlin IMO) talking points.  What good does it do to engage them? Little or none.

funny and sad....
as i recall BnaC bragged about his heterosexuality...
he exhibited bizarre obsessive/compulsive disorder traits in his postings but i guess we should add to his list of atypical behaviors Identity Crisis 101!
i wish we could bid good riddance to that particularly disagreeable person, but, like the man who came to dinner he seems incapable of knowing when and where he is not wanted!

I noticed that rabid racist augustus went all nutsy (nazi?) cookoo on a thread announcing the shut down of the P-Forum in another forum.... they locked the discussion pretty quickly but you know these worms will try to slither their way into any opening they can find.
the attention they get on the site is probably the only attention they get in their lives. just a suspicious.

Hi Guys,
Its been a hot minute since I've been here, but just wanted to post a quick comment about THIS topic.   I posted on the OTHER site as jjkkrkwood, but its been about a year now that I walked away after being BANNED for commenting in a post on children and GUN legislation.  The BAN was for talking about children.  WTF ???  how can that be avoided when the topic is gun control and kids dying in schools ?   Anyway, after the Ban was lifted, BEFORE I could be allowed back, I had to sign a proclamation that I AGREED I WAS WRONG in posting and wont do it again....   Since I didnt see it that way, I offered them my finger and never looked back.   But before that I had become disgusted with the degeneration of that forum, what they allowed to be posted and seemed to SUPPORT, and the people they were tossing out for pushing back against the lunatic ring-wing fringe members and election deniers.   I didnt care that they had their own views but they were aggressive and in attack mode all the time, and were ALLOWED to say a lot of shit that other members were being tossed for.  
So..............  as far as the Q connection, it never crossed my mind since I know many of the current mods and I would NEVER believe that of any of them.... But ya never really do know people, DO YA ????
Well it is nice speaking to ya'll again, and enjoy your Sunday/Funday.   
(A special Hi to my lover /sister Stevenkesslar)    

https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/139177-hiring-straight-guys/page/10/#comment-2096310

Why be so agitated about the voices of some clearly deranged people interjecting their hate into our community?
It is because the coded language they speak is an instrument of violence.  The leaders of organized political or social movements tell their followers that specific groups of people (the "others") is plotting to destroy civilized society. History tells us that  if this message is repeated enough, loudly enough, often enough, and long enough it is only a matter of time before the bodies from the named scapegoated groups start to turn up .
This is what the mods should have been concerned with. Not some superficial policing that does nothing at all except validate the power dynamic already in place.

Oh dear August, the first one on my ignore list at the other site.

Why be so agitated about the voices of some clearly deranged people interjecting their hate into our community?
It is because the coded language they speak is an instrument of violence.  The leaders of organized political or social movements tell their followers that specific groups of people (the "others") is plotting to destroy civilized society. History tells us that  if this message is repeated enough, loudly enough, often enough, and long enough it is only a matter of time before the bodies from the named scapegoated groups start to turn up .
This is what the mods should have been concerned with. Not some superficial policing that does nothing at all except validate the power dynamic already in place.

I noticed that rabid racist augustus went all nutsy (nazi?) cookoo on a thread announcing the shut down of the P-Forum in another forum.... they locked the discussion pretty quickly but you know these worms will try to slither their way into any opening they can find.
the attention they get on the site is probably the only attention they get in their lives. just a suspicious.

You maybe overly optimistic. As I have posted on the other site, those people used to spewing venoms in the Politics section there now have lost their outlets and it is bound to spill over into other parts of that site. 
 
My suspicion is money may be at the root of the differential treatment for certain posters at the other site. If you are a major donor, the site owner probably will be more tolerant toward infractions of rules.  

Why be so agitated about the voices of some clearly deranged people interjecting their hate into our community?
It is because the coded language they speak is an instrument of violence.  The leaders of organized political or social movements tell their followers that specific groups of people (the "others") is plotting to destroy civilized society. History tells us that  if this message is repeated enough, loudly enough, often enough, and long enough it is only a matter of time before the bodies from the named scapegoated groups start to turn up .
This is what the mods should have been concerned with. Not some superficial policing that does nothing at all except validate the power dynamic already in place.

Bozo had decided that I was lying about my profession (I am a school teacher) and in a very stalker-Ish manner launched a series of personal attacks on my questioning my honesty about my job, my credentials, my character. It got to the point where he wa tracking my time on the site, posting it to the world, and telling everyone I could not be a teacher (he is obviously ignorant of so, so many things, haha)
I never called him a moron, a bigot, a Nazi-lover, a racist.... although I probably did call him a fascist. That is not a personal attack - it is an accurate description of his political philosophy.