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    Darcy Foxx
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    Hello everyone,

    My fellow moderators and I have recently noticed a dramatic surge in unpleasant, catty, superior behaviour towards our newer members. This behaviour is simply not acceptable.

    New members are the future of this website. If we are to continue to flourish and grow, it is the new people who discover us and join us, who will make that possible. Stripperweb is NOT your little clique. It is NOT an ultra exclusive club just for you and your awesome friends. Primarily, it is a site for EVERYONE who works as a stripper, is curious about being a stripper, or used to be a stripper. It is also a site where people who work in a strip club environment, work in other areas of adult entertainment, or people who just like strippers, can come for advice or guidance. Someone who has a lesser post count is not a lesser person, their opinions are just as valid as every single other person who contributes in a non-trollish manner to this forum. I cannot even count how many times I have recently seen someone tell a newer member that their opinion isn't valid because they have a low post count or make some other snide, bitchy little remark about how they don't know what they're talking about because they only just joined. Quite frankly, it saddens me.

    We should be welcoming new members with open arms, tolerance, and understanding. This goes out especially to those of you who are now veteran members, you are the ones who should be setting a positive example. I know many of you probably feel so at home here now that you do not remember what it was like to be a newbie making your first few posts, but please do not forget that every single one of you was, at some point, a newly registered member with a really low postcount. And I'm sure not a single one of you would have appreciated being told that you should shut the fuck up because nobody cares what someone with 8 posts thinks.

    To any new members who may be reading this, welcome to Stripperweb.

    Thanks for your time.

    Darcy

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    Thank you. Seriously.
    I believe you Dottie and you have my support

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    I remember being a newbie member (three years ago! jeez). I think I said some dumb, ignorant newbie stuff too. I was chided, but I learned. If I was attacked, I wouldn't have stayed around, and that would have been too bad.

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    ive noticed this to its seems we don't let anyone new in i can't rember much about when i first joined i feel like ive been here forever lol but i don't think it was quite as rough. I am glad you posted this welcome new members.

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    Well said Darcy. There have been some really insightful posts from some new members (yes in the marriage proposal thread) and some older members were just plain nasty and unreasonable. Get over yourselves!!
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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    Awesome post, and very necessary. Thank you.

    I'd also like to add: a lot of newbies get here and have no idea how to use the site, or it's their first forum, or they don't quite get how each section works, or they ignore the stickies, etc.... we really need to NOT bitch at them for simply being new, or for asking a question that's already been addressed, or snappily saying, "SEARCH FUNCTion, DUH!" I know I pulled that once or twice and felt pretty stupid afterwards...

    you're right- we should be more helpful and welcoming to new members.. like, beyond their welcome thread.

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    Well said. I like to think I give all the noobs a chance because I don't fucking own the place. Everyone has just as much a right to be here as the next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexxaHex View Post
    Everyone has just as much a right to be here as the next.
    Exactly.

    At the end of the day, we don't give a flying fuck about when you joined, how many posts you have, or how important and popular you think you are. No stripper has more right to post here than any other.

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    Thank you very much for posting this. I hope it is duly noted.

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    Great post! I remember my noob days... *shudder*

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    Haha. I felt like such an ass in my newbie days too. I was so intimidated!

    Sw needs a :

    I don't know if I have contributed to this lately but if so then I'll pop one, too.

    Thanks for the post, Darcy.

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    I know riiiiiiiight, once, I was new. Sometimes other ppl weren't tho I guess.


    And damn, give some due respect to lurking! Prob most ppl first viewed this site like a full year or more before they signed up.

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    Absolutely agreed.

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    W will say I'm a relatively new poster and the folks here have been very nice.

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    I will say I'm a relatively new poster and the folks here have been very nice.

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    ^^So is the 3rd time the charm?

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    Thanks for this thread everyone.

    I can safely say the cool members here far outnumber the catty ones.

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    Amen, Darcy



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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    Glad you posted this. We all need a reminder from time to time that this is a safe place to ask questions and learn from each other. We can't expect that from our respective club environments, and because of that, I've come to value this community of intelligent, compassionate people that freely give advice and support without the competition and cattiness of a dressing room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alaska View Post
    ^^So is the 3rd time the charm?
    Ooopsie, sorry! LOL!

    But yes. You all have been very nice.

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    Well said. Some people are downright mean when they tell someone new to do a search. I know sometimes I've done a search, but either nothing relevant comes up or the information is too old to be useful anymore.






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    Quote Originally Posted by mollyzmoon View Post
    I remember being a newbie member (three years ago! jeez). I think I said some dumb, ignorant newbie stuff too. I was chided, but I learned.
    Yeah, we should all go back and read our first posts, lol! Naaah...

    It would be funny if there was a program that could spit out the worst first posts. I don't want to see mine, though. I still remember a couple. I was brand new to forums, too, so there was stuff I didn't get. Like posting the same stuff in more than one place, thinking it was a different place and different people wouldn't have seen it.

    Fucking duh, jesus.

    Also, I was like on crack, so excited to find the place I was babbling like an idiot. But what the fuck, I was working in Daytona clubs, and even the lawyers are stupid in Daytona.

    See, there I go, babbling again. But nobody's perfect, not me.


    Thank you, Darcy, for an excellent thread.
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    I'm so glad you posted this. I'm sure there are people (myself included) that quit posting as much and just read because of the cattiness of some people.

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    Thank you Darcy for posting. I lurked for about 6 months before I decided to join (about 6 months ago or something on my last 2 SNs). I held back from joining because of this very reason----I saw how bitchy ppl could be to those with low post counts and I didn't want to get bitched at for being a "noob" or a "troll"

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    Default Re: Everyone. Please Read!

    just a suggestion, you might want to think about eliminating 'post counts'. i've always considered them an unnecessary factoid in any forum.

    on another forum i'm on, we did that for a while and i think the result was a lessening of noob bashing and "peacocking". (although they returned with a subsequent software upgrade)

    btw, i was actually the top poster there but that meant as much as a warm bucket of spit to me. i mean, who gives a fig? it's not like it translates into breast/dick size. but others with 'x-amount of posts' took their post count to mean they're "veterans" or "upper clique". bleah.

    i agree with the general assessment that there's been some increased meanness around here. but i'm not sure if it's a 'defensive troll reaction' or just the general attitude here (yes, you have one. frankly, most forums do.).

    meh, i just keep to the lounge and the funny pic threads.

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