Can't access Sex and Sexuality Forum

KTRIC

I've just noticed this forum on the main page and I can't seem to access it. Is it restricted to certain members ??

seamus

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=282269

TerrorFirmer

Is there anywhere Seamus, we can mail money?

I dont use paypal,and at work am a million miles away from any bank...

RuggieBear

MobileInfantry wrote:

Is there anywhere Seamus, we can mail money?

I dont use paypal,and at work am a million miles away from any bank...

There is a postal address for cheques.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1021312&postcount=1

TerrorFirmer

No way send cash? I cant use cheques either....

Chong

Do we have to pay for this forum.

RuggieBear

MobileInfantry wrote:

No way send cash? I cant use cheques either....

if you trust me you can send me cash and i'll reg you with my creditcard. But only if you really trust me....

Beruthiel

Willem D wrote:

Do we have to pay for this forum.

you have to become a suscriber

seamus

MobileInfantry wrote:

No way send cash? I cant use cheques either....

Draft or postal order?

Do we have to pay for this forum.

No. Access to this forum is one of the benefits of being a subscriber.

Chong

This is a bleeding joke.

TerrorFirmer

RuggieBear wrote:

if you trust me you can send me cash and i'll reg you with my creditcard. But only if you really trust me....

I'll trust you, if you would honestly do that favour, I could nip down to the PO (next door to work) in 10 minutes and post it off.... :eek:

Send me a PM with your address if you can, or otherwise, guess I'm just doomed to eternal plainness of a registered user....

RuggieBear

MobileInfantry wrote:

I'll trust you, if you would honestly do that favour, I could nip down to the PO (next door to work) in 10 minutes and post it off.... :eek:

Send me a PM with your address if you can, or otherwise, guess I'm just doomed to eternal plainness of a registered user....

well, i don't mind but tbh, what happens if your money becomes "lost" in the post?
I'd investigate the postal order option first but if you wanna chance An POST...yeah, i'll pm you my contact details.

RuggieBear

Willem D wrote:

This is a bleeding joke.

pourquoi?

rob1891

If we can't view it could you take it off the front page ( as done with other private boards). It's a bit annoying. New after hours rules suck a bit, is there a justification for all this (underagers?), maybe one of those announcement posts is in order as I doubt anyone is interested in searhing for past discussions ...

TerrorFirmer

RuggieBear wrote:

well, i don't mind but tbh, what happens if your money becomes "lost" in the post?
I'd investigate the postal order option first but if you wanna chance An POST...yeah, i'll pm you my contact details.

I'll post it well, with my return address etc, and hope for the best, which will hopefully that it arrives on your doorstep tomorrow or the day after.....

Much appreciated btw, thanks

Chong

Why pay for this forum, this place may now aswell be a subscription p0rn website.

The Clown Man

A small stroke of genius by the admin. Very impressive!

Way to turn a bad idea into a good idea.

Anyway, I'll subscribe.

TerrorFirmer

Willem D wrote:

Why pay for this forum, this place may now aswell be a subscription p0rn website.

Don't be idiotic for the sake of it. Can you imagine the spam, crap and messing that would go on if it was open to every registered user?

At least this way we know its going to be an honest, clean place that we can be relied on and moderated with reasonable ease.

Also, helps shield the eyes of minors from its corrupting information.

Talliesin

As always the reason for subscribing is because you think boards.ie is really cool and you would like to help it out by donating a few bob. Boards has just added access to the new forum as one of its ways of saying "thank you", especially since it gives a degree of accountablility to said access as well.

ecksor

Willem, leaving aside the fact that you've never been much more than a nuisance around here, you don't have to pay for this. You just won't be reading it then like you didn't read it before it was created.

Now, if you want to create a forum for discussion of this nature that anybody of any age can access, then you go right ahead and do it on your website. It sounds like a potential car crash to me. If we have a forum like this then we need some way of restricting access to it or we don't have it at all. Since a lot of people wanted it, then this is the best compromise we have.

seamus

rob1891 wrote:

New after hours rules suck a bit, is there a justification for all this (underagers?)

Yeah, I realise they do, as it effectively bans a certain type of discussion unless you pay for it. The main problem is that (IMO) it would be nice to have a place where people can speak frankly and openly about these kinds of issues. Up until now, they've been on AH, which I haven't been overjoyed about. Each time one appeared, we were a thin line away from boards.ie getting in some serious trouble for publishing content inappropriate for little 13-year-old Jimmy. If his Mummy saw a 40-page thread about Kama Sutra techniques (this never appeared, surprisingly enough), we could have been in some serious ****.
Speaking of Kama Sutra, the forum also provides an opportunity for a relatively spam-free discussion of such adult issues, hopefully without stupid childish comments. And since access is off by default, it makes removing an annoyance/troublemaker all that more simple.

Note that this is just my view of the situation, I was only aware of the creation of this forum when the other thread appeared.

Perhaps the admins will clarify/announce the situation later on (they all seem to be wandering around today)

monkeyfudge

MobileInfantry wrote:

At least this way we know its going to be an honest, clean place that we can be relied on and moderated with reasonable ease.

Ha.. Not if I have any say in it... I think I'll go and start a thread discussing the sex lives of the bonobo chimps... they get up to some really filthy stuff....

Talliesin

Willem D wrote:

Why pay for this forum, this place may now aswell be a subscription p0rn website.

Well it was more thought that if we didn't do it this way the place might end up a free porn website.

Posting porn is not allowed on the sex and sexuality forum. Talking about it is. Linking to a particular piece of erotic material better be damn well relevant to the thread.

RuggieBear

finally somewhere to discuss the sexlife of a furrie

Firewalkwithme

What has already appeared in After Hours and Personal Issues is likely to be equally risque or offencive to some people as whetever ends up on the new sex forum.

I think you guys just smelled money once you realised the demand for such a forum exists. Don't try to make out like your doing us a public service here. There's other methods you could have used to determine a persons age rather than forcing them to be a full subscriber in order to access the forum.

Talliesin

seamus wrote:

Speaking of Kama Sutra, the forum also provides an opportunity for a relatively spam-free discussion of such adult issues, hopefully without stupid childish comments. And since access is off by default, it makes removing an annoyance/troublemaker all that more simple.

Note that this is just my view of the situation

That at least would be part of my view. And I'm one of the mods there.

Incidentally, here's the charter of the forum, so those without access can have a better idea just what we're talking about here.

Talliesin wrote:

1. The purpose of this forum is the discussion of sex, sexuality and related topics.
2. Topics some may find offensive may be discussed here, there are over 500 other forums on boards.ie you can go to instead if you won't like it here. Reasonable links may not be worksafe, use your common-sense before following them. Complaints that there is content of a sexual nature on a sexuality discussion forum will not be entertained.
3. Not everyone in the world thinks the same way about these matters as you, labels like normal/abnormal, moral/immoral/amoral, ethical/unethical, kinky/vanilla, respectable/degenerate will always be disagreed on. How you would apply those labels and what they would imply to you is on-topic and thank you for sharing. Disrespecting those who would apply them differently is not.
4. Similarly, please avoid an overly didactic tone, especially if someone didn't actually ask for advice. This is a discussion forum, not a preaching forum.
5. Please keep within the general tone a thread started with:
   1. By default, threads should be assumed to be about safe, sane and consensual acts (which includes the decision to be celibate, to abstain before marriage, etc). If you want to discuss something outside of that please start a new thread.
   2. By default, what your god or gods think about the previous posters is off topic, please either take it to the forum for the appropriate religion, or else start a new thread on the matter. (Saying "I must not/must do X because of my religion" is okay, saying "No one should/Everyone should do X because of my religion" is not, unless the thread is explicitly about the morality of something).
6. If you ask a poster for more information on something they've said, and they choose not to reply, assume they don't want to answer that question, repeatedly asking such questions will be deemed an act of harassment and result in a ban.
7. Because of the subscriber-only nature of this forum it is not possible to allow for anonymous posting. If you PM a request to one of the moderators, we will treat it in confidence and may post it for you, before deleting the PM. (As mere common-sense should tell you, this confidentiality cannot extend to keeping quiet about matters that should be reported to the police).
8. Fun posts are welcome, but please stay serious on serious threads.
9. What goes where:
   1. Threads on sexual morality focusing on a particular belief system go in the appropriate religion's forum. Threads on sexual morality here are open to all viewpoints.
   2. Threads seeking advice on a given issue go to Personal Issues. The Personal Issues moderators work to steer replies towards those which are offering help, the moderators here will not, if you post about a problem here people can just discuss any aspect of the problem they find interesting and not offer any advice at all.
   3. Threads about sexual health matters are allowed and encouraged here. If you have a concern about your own sexual health you should go to a doctor or an STI clinic, not here. As per other threads seeking advice, threads about coping with a sexual health issue are allowed here, but Personal Issues is the place to go for actual advice.
   4. What celebrity you fancy, etc. is still an After Hours matter. It's not actually a discussion about sex or sexuality after all.
   5. Purely humours threads go to the Humour forum.
   6. Pointless links to pornographic or erotic material go nowhere. They get deleted and the poster gets banned (possibly site-banned).
10. It is not appropriate to out someone or otherwise say anything about their sexual lifestyle they have not mentioned themselves.

RE*AC*TOR

ecksor wrote:

Willem, leaving aside the fact that you've never been much more than a nuisance around here, you don't have to pay for this. You just won't be reading it then like you didn't read it before it was created.

Now, if you want to create a forum for discussion of this nature that anybody of any age can access, then you go right ahead and do it on your website. It sounds like a potential car crash to me. If we have a forum like this then we need some way of restricting access to it or we don't have it at all. Since a lot of people wanted it, then this is the best compromise we have.

well - create the linux iso forum and i'll subscribe.

willem - chill

mobileinfantry - i assume minors can also be subscribers?

rob1891

seamus wrote:

Yeah, I realise they do, as it effectively bans a certain type of discussion unless you pay for it. The main problem is that (IMO) it would be nice to have a place where people can speak frankly and openly about these kinds of issues. Up until now, they've been on AH, which I haven't been overjoyed about. Each time one appeared, we were a thin line away from boards.ie getting in some serious trouble for publishing content inappropriate for little 13-year-old Jimmy. If his Mummy saw a 40-page thread about Kama Sutra techniques (this never appeared, surprisingly enough), we could have been in some serious ****.
Speaking of Kama Sutra, the forum also provides an opportunity for a relatively spam-free discussion of such adult issues, hopefully without stupid childish comments. And since access is off by default, it makes removing an annoyance/troublemaker all that more simple.

Note that this is just my view of the situation, I was only aware of the creation of this forum when the other thread appeared.

Perhaps the admins will clarify/announce the situation later on (they all seem to be wandering around today)

Thanks for the reply. Will it effect PI, I can't remember if the a sex board was suggested because of a glut of threads on AH or just the general tone of PI. I guess there are a lot of questions, all will be revealled in an annoucement ... hint hint

seamus

rob1891 wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Will it effect PI, I can't remember if the a sex board was suggested because of a glut of threads on AH or just the general tone of PI. I guess there are a lot of questions, all will be revealled in an annoucement ... hint hint

PI will stay as PI. They've always had a policy of "only problems here, if you want to discuss something, go to AH". I know myself and the PI mods have been at loggerheads for while about this, as it was felt there was a missing link between the two forums - put bluntly, there were a load of threads that we didn't want on either forum. Hopefully this forum will serve as that missing link, and it will itself define the type of threads that end up there.

Talliesin

Despatch wrote:

I think you guys just smelled money once you realised the demand for such a forum exists. Don't try to make out like your doing us a public service here.

You've rumbled us. It is indeed really a cunning way to boost the massive profits of Boards Ltd.

Chong

ecksor wrote:

Willem, leaving aside the fact that you've never been much more than a nuisance around here, you don't have to pay for this. You just won't be reading it then like you didn't read it before it was created.

Now, if you want to create a forum for discussion of this nature that anybody of any age can access, then you go right ahead and do it on your website. It sounds like a potential car crash to me. If we have a forum like this then we need some way of restricting access to it or we don't have it at all. Since a lot of people wanted it, then this is the best compromise we have.

Fine ecks fine..