Quote by Racoonteur

Wow! And, you're a mod? Stirring shit like this on what was a pretty decent thread until you decided to blow it up?

And, you do this all the time? And you're proud of it?

I hope the thread survives, as it was really intended as something that would promote a healthy discourse until the child arrived. If it doesn't, that's too bad. I hope the admins will take a close look at what and who ended what was intended to be a helpful and discerning conversation.

Just as I thought. More meandering nonsense and no denial of my assessment of your intentions. Yawn.

And to answer your question, I’m quite proud of and content with who I am and how I conduct myself, for better AND for worse.

Quote by JustForYou

I'm not a mod and never will be, but if you ever get any T-shirts with 'mod with attitude' on them made, I think I'd buy one! High praise indeed. Keep on modding, keep on 'attituding'...I might have made that word up! ❤️

You never know. They’ve kept me as a mod all these years, so the standards can’t be too high. 😉

Regarding the rest, you really shouldn’t encourage me like this. I cause enough trouble as-is, but I appreciate the kind words nonetheless.♥️

Quote by Racoonteur

You can try to reframe reality all you want, but it doesn't change what you're really doing here.

It wasn't your "viewpoint," it was your personal attack. You took a frank and open discussion and made it personal.

And yes, you are upset, you can deny it all you want, but coming in all Rambo then saying "I'm just like this" is, and always has been a complete cop out for owning your own shit... and you have lots of it.

I'm not at all interested in ending this conversation. I'm just done wasting time with you.

You can go ahead and reframe how you just came to make a contribution, but it's clearly evident what you're doing. Talking shit and blaming others.

Shit talking is my default setting. But who have I blamed? Where have I placed responsibility where it didn’t belong?

It seems to mean a lot to you to believe that I’m attacking you simply because I’ve very directly expressed my belief regarding your intentions and disagreed with your perspective. In fact, the only time our conversations have veered off course is when you’ve interjected how offended you are that I had the audacity to tell you what I think.

In that regard, you’ve assigned me emotions that don’t belong to me, and have made multiple attempts now to discredit my perspective. However, in all of your indignation, you have yet to tell me I’m wrong. You have yet to deny that your desire in broaching this subject was to get others to agree that you want us to encroach on others’ privacy to assume responsibility and prevent folks’ naïveté in being fooled by internet pretenders.

That’s because you can’t. That’s why all of your responses to me have defaulted to “You’re a meanie face who’s here to say mean things and I’m not gonna talk to you no more.” It’s also why you’re trying to convince me that I’m the one that’s upset, because you have no other means of invalidating my perspective so you’re grasping at straws. By the way, even if I was/am upset or otherwise having an emotional response, it still wouldn’t somehow magically make me wrong.

I assure you there’s nothing you can tell me about me that I don’t know, unless it’s inaccurate. I know I’m abrasive in my directness, and I’ve always owned that about myself. That doesn’t mean you get to decide who engages with you in this space, or how they engage. That’s not how “ongoing conversations” in public forums work, sweet pea.

Quote by Racoonteur

Contrary to what you claim, you seem quite upset.
I don't know how I can be "conducting this thread," if I haven't participated in it in a month.
I'm not going to engage. This thread has been moving along exactly the way I'd hoped, with some good back-and-forth discussion. I'd hate to see it derailed, especially by a mod with an attitude.

Goodbye.

LMAOOOOO. “Mod with an attitude.” I like it.

I’m not upset. I’m just like this. You derailed your own thread with your feelings about my perspective.

Anyways goodbye. I’m so sorry that my opposing viewpoints disrupted this “ongoing conversation” you started…and now seem adamant about ending. LOL.

Quote by Racoonteur

You do realize that I haven't responded to this thread in over a month, don't you?

I have no interest in having this turn into any kind of flame-fest. If you're offended, I apologize. If you go back, you'll see that my original goal is to introduce a discussion that I didn't see on the forum. If you say it was ongoing, it wasn't lately. I felt it would be helpful to have it as an active and friendly discussion and so far it's been. I suggest we keep it that way.

Why is the time since your last response relevant? Especially since you’ve been actively responding to me today? You said you wanted an ongoing conversation, well here we are. And I’m not offended, as it takes quite a bit to upset my sensibilities.

You seem to be conflating “active and friendly conversation” with “echo chamber.”

I’ll do you a favor and disregard your incredibly condescending “I suggest we keep it that way.” If I desire such suggestions moving forward, I’ll ask for them directly.

Cheers.

Quote by Racoonteur

I'm not sure what you mean when you say, "judging from the way you've conducted this conversation thus far, today is not that day."

Well I’m happy to clarify!

I stated in my earlier comment that this conversation hasn’t progressed beyond wanting the site to compromise its members’ privacy in a bid to mitigate folks’ personal responsibility to be savvy enough not get duped by internet strangers. Your comments thus far have been in alignment with the site assuming that responsibility, which compromises said privacy.

You also spoke to us needing to be “more proactive,” and we highlighted that we are indeed proactive in this regard, which was more or less disregarded by you.

Overall it seems like you’re not interested in a solution outside of us being more overreaching than folks generally have a right for us to be.

While I understand that you may mean well, this doesn’t appear to be as good faith of a conversation as you’ve presented.

Quote by Racoonteur

There's no such thing as "the right to lie."

Yes there is, LOL. I don't mean "right" in a moral sense. I mean right as in a basic tenet of free will (and free speech). Your discomfort with that fact doesn't make it any less so.

This site's approach to dishonesty and deception can either open the door to both or serve to limit the amount of both. While there may or may not be any legal ramifications, the degree to which they strive to protect their patronage still reflects on them.

I concur. However, there is more to protecting our patronage than making sure someone doesn't fall for someone else's deception. In today's very uncertain digital age, privacy is everything. We choose everyone else's privacy over anyone's lack of internet savvy. I'll reiterate that when it comes to someone pretending to be someone they aren't for shits and giggles, we intervene when necessary, which is in the context of scamming and spamming. Beyond that, we make it quite clear that folks proceed with caution.

Any measures beyond the ones we currently use encroach on the privacy of others in ways that don't align with the values of this site. If those are unsatisfactory and we lose membership because we've elected to prioritize the right to privacy, then we accept that.

I think a healthy, ongoing discussion of the matter is important, even if it was held decades ago (especially if it was held decades ago)

I didn't say the conversation was "held decades ago." I said that this has been an ongoing conversation for decades. You approached this subject as if you, yourself were the originator of this "ongoing" discussion. It's been going on for quite a while. It has yet to progress beyond the desire for us to violate others' privacy in the name of making sure someone doesn't lust and/or develop feelings for someone who isn't who they say they are. I look forward to the day it does, but judging from the way you've conducted yourself in this conversation thus far, today is not that day.

This discussion has existed for as long as this site has existed. If you click through to past posts and threads in just about any section of the forums, you will find multiple iterations of this conversation, spanning nearly two decades.

Before AI, there was passing off pics of porn stars (or outright pretending to be said porn stars), photoshop, etc. There have been suggestions from wanting threads exposing such profiles to banning accounts who do this, to wanting to make catfishing against the rules.

Regardless of how often this conversation is rehashed, this is the sticking point: This is a site that centers fantasy and sex. As such, people come here and present themselves in any way they choose, be it honestly or dishonestly. Barring scamming/spamming, the site has no obligation to intervene because people have every right to lie about who they are on the internet. As unsettling as that is to to say and accept, it's the reality.

While as a site we have some measures in place that make it somewhat more difficult to be deceitful, these measures are optional, and therefore the onus is on the individual to govern themselves accordingly in light of the fact that people on the internet are not always who they say they are.

Quote by Magical_felix

People are saying Trump blew Bill Clinton but my theory is that Bill fucked Donald's neck pussy, so not gay.

Oh my god.

1. Megan Thee Stallion

2. Victoria Monet

3. Yah-ya Abdul-Mateen II

4. Theo James

5. Sam Reid

6. Morris Chesnut

7. Aaron Pierre

8.. Sebastian Stan

9. Stanley Tucci (only with a beard)

10. Steve Carrell (only with the beard/goatee combo)

Quote by SydneySider

You're a grub. Seriously! You think that its ok to be killed because someone disagrees with you? That's so fucked up. I am interested in reading or watching something where he was racist. Or lied. So you don't think someone like David Packman or, Cenk Uygur aren't making money off of their platforms? Talk about grifters. They lied for years about Biden and made money from it. Careful when you take pleasure in the death of someone. Karma is definitely a woman who's going through menopause.

Oh yikes.

This is a wild take. There's no need to rewrite history. He said plenty of racist things that people are pretending have been debunked. Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to die that way, but he also believed that people dying that way was necessary to preserve the 2nd amendment, he just never meant himself. The other people you named as grifters don't change the fact that Charlie Kirk was a grifter. And all grifters lie. All grifters act against the best interests of those most marginalized because that's what grifters do.

"Karma is definitely a woman who's going through menopause" is incredibly cringey, among other things. It would have been a banger in like 2011, though. I'll give you that.

Quote by Magical_felix

Trump neck pussy update 9/11/2025

I'm working to have posting Trump's neck pussy a bannable offense. I'm sick of your shit.

Quote by colin123

I notice you are not from the UK.

Perhaps you should stick to posting your wife's puss and boots. This conversation is a bit out of range for you.

Quote by darkroot50

I'd agree it's nothing new. But it just seems more pervasive now. Maybe that's because the last time the country was this polarized was around the Civil War.

It seems pervasive because they're no longer hiding it, but it's always been here.

Quote by Milik_the_Red

Don’t be so sure I wouldn’t be surprised if she lies and goes up there, but it’s very shallow and people aren’t going to believe it

The only way this is gonna go away is if the Democrats wanted to go away too. But then that’s another issue altogether.

Well sure. And I'm certain democrats are also on that list.

And people are treating it like some kinda gotcha. I want any and all predators on that list brought to the light and punished accordingly, regardless of political affiliation.

Ghislaine is gonna lie if she testifies, and then she'll be pardoned, and nothing will come of any of this.

I know it's been a while since we've had a reminder of the Rage Cage rules since Sprite initially created this section of the forums, but please take note:

1) No directing your rage at other members - this is not UFC (sorry, Doll, but it's not!).

2) No directing your rage at the site. Admin and the mods do an amazing job here and work hard at making it this wonderful and if you don't like it, leave. This is for stuff outside the site. Stuff that you just need to vent about.

3) Let it all out about the little things or the big things. That ass who took your parking spot, getting the pink slip, being sick, getting dumped, all of it, just let it go here.

4) You are not allowed to tell anyone not to be angry, to calm down. We feel how we feel. Do not try to reason with the the rage. It needs to be let loose.

5) Don't censor yourself. Let it all out.

6) Be respectful of other peoples rage. Being bitchy in public is scary. Don't belittle anyone. Ok, have fun.

Quote by simplyjohn

Have you read this forum thread also in this section:

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/lush-help-desk/story-verification-times-2

If you do you will also glean that members with a gold or platinum subscription get priority (accepting the current situation as explained in the aforementioned forum thread).

This has already been addressed in another thread, quoted here.

Locking this thread now.

Quote by Jack1

You know you should take intelligence 101, Mr. Trump is a true American. It's lame idiots like yourself who speak to which you don't know. You should try serving your country vice bashing it. Your boy China Joe brought on this Juneteenth BS so facts should be checked before speaking.

Lead paint strikes again.

Please limit posts like this to the "BDSM Lifestyle" section of the forums. Thank you.

Please limit threads like this to the "BDSM Lifestyle" section of the forum. Thank you.

Please limit threads like this to the "BDSM Lifestyle" section of the forums. Thank you.

Quote by darkroot50

Somehow I doubt they'll blame Trump. It's probably Biden's fault as is everything that's happened in the last 10+ years.

Ding ding ding!

Medicaid has been cut for millions. Not a single one of them is an undocumented immigrant.

Wanna guess whose voter base is comprised mostly of those on Medicaid? Wanna guess who those voters are gonna blame for losing their healthcare?

Quote by noll

I kinda miss Chryses & co. Would've been fascinating to read their arguments in defence of the US political system, and the orange buffoon in particular, during the current state of affairs. Checks & balances… what a mess.

He's definitely still around lurking and biding his time. Don't mention him too much or you'll summon him. He's gone, leave him where he's at until he emerges from the depths to start shit in droves, much like cicadas.

Quote by MissKinks

smirks well, if we’re keeping it positive and in the “Spa” spirit… I’d say a glass of champagne, maybe a little dancing, and definitely some celebratory vibes with a hint of mischievous fun.

I think you may have mistakenly posted this in the wrong thread, friend.

Quote by Magical_felix

Listen to him, he's trying to teach you.

Stop kink-shaming me.