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A sunny Greek afternoon erupts into a threesome between friends that leaves all three breathless and entangled.
Threesomes
Quote by swmt40
If people would treat others the way they want to be treated
Pros and cons:
Pro: wouldn't need moderators.
Con: wouldn't have a great team of moderators.
We have to look at the reality of where we actually are and we should also address the seeming expectation of a PG-rated "safe space" on a platform explicitly built for sexual expression.
We aren’t on a knitting forum or LinkedIn; we are on Lushstories.com where you need to be 18+ years old to join.
1. Context is Key: We are browsing a site where the main attraction is stories about people fucking each other’s brains out. We are here to read and discuss raw, unfiltered (to an extent) human desire. It feels contradictory to consume graphic content in the stories but then take offence when someone drops an F or C-bomb in the chatrooms.
From my perspective, "The Lounge" should be a place where we can talk like adults. Adults swear, we shout, we disagree and we use colourful language as a way of expressing both joy and frustration. Creating an artificial barrier where we have to sanitise our speech in a general chatroom feels inauthentic to the core values of the website. If we can handle the language in stories, we can certainly handle it in a chatroom.
2. Explicit vs. Abusive: There is a massive difference between explicit and abusive language.
We shouldn't confuse the two. Policing vocabulary makes the room feel sterile. As long as users aren't attacking one another, the language used should be as free as the content anywhere else on the site.
Venting about a bad day using profanity or making a crude joke is totally fine in The Lounge and anywhere else.
Targeting specific users, bullying, or harassment is never okay, regardless of the language used.
Explicit language, swearing, cussing, cursing, profanity... or whatever else you call it, should be expected as common place on a site like this.
Lush allows us to provide and express an extension of ourselves, but it is not an alternate reality where everything is pink and fluffy.
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I see people replying to specific users in the chat room is but I am unable to figure out how to do so.
Click/tap on their name and select "mention" or type @ followed by their name (no space).
Stuff like what does a green checkmark mean beside somebody’s name in a chat room?
These are image-verified members.
I think a better way of doing so would be to add a hashtag or 'category' feature when users upload images/gifs specifically to publicly available albums.
This way, the site can still push the burden of responsibility to the member, by keeping the media in their album and also creating a centralised space for the images to be searched from.
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Thanks for this information. As a newbie, when in a chat room, how do I highlight another user when I am replying to them?
Welcome!!
Either click/tap their name, or type @followed by their name.
Chaotic, pre-holiday packing, anxiety inducing mess.
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Did you get an answer? I'd like to know too.
Messages (lushmail) >>> three dots >>> settings.
They are Mod/Admin announcement messages that contrast in colour to get attention. Mod/Admin announcements have always been a thing, however, they used to be red.
It's likely that someone in the room had posted an image that was below or bordered on the age requirements for images.
It's also likely that the mod/admin was asked to review something, so just dipped in, removed the content and added the message, and then left swiftly before you knew they were there. 
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? - Bruce Springsteen
The kind of body where a guy clearly takes his health seriously but does not obsess over it.
Firm under the hand, but not like you're stroking a brick wall.
