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Subject: Re: Searching for Ivy


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Angela
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Date Posted: 08:31:55 09/11/24 Wed
In reply to: Angela 's message, "Searching for Ivy" on 23:51:26 09/09/24 Mon

No. He is Benji's cousin. Were you in the group or the family forum?

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Smith
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Date Posted: 04:46:21 09/12/24 Thu

That forum was an interesting concept. Only found out about it last month just like this one. Any idea why it didn't last that long? Most of the content is only from the early 2010's.

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Angela
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Date Posted: 14:26:33 09/12/24 Thu

The original creator-moderator fell quite ill and turned it over to an individual who was, to say the least, less than adequate. Soon admission standards were reduced to nothing,. Soon tales, like those which fill this forum, obviously inappropriate for this type of forum, began to fill our forum. Perhaps worst of all some of it , like portions of the kids' group, were surreptitiously opened to/or hacked by lurkers everywhere. The “Spank With Love” forum spectacularly crashed as original members ran toward the exit.

I might as well add, I don't think a forum like that is possible today, and probably was not then. Although admission standards, especially to the kids' group, were very high that alone was not enough to make it permanently safe and useful. We had to send in written documents providing the kids' age and they had to be orally interviewed, as did we by the moderator. In addition we and the moderator, had to approve of every post our kids' made.

But it all depended on the good will of one mortal man, whose health failed him. That plus the technical aspects and increasing challenges of properly running anything like this make me think it more than inadvisable today.

Angela

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Smith
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Date Posted: 03:17:29 09/18/24 Wed

Apologies for the late response, and thank you for your answer. With the explanation you gave, it is indeed interesting how the forum could manage to exist yes. Well, it's sad to hear how it went. Did you keep contact with the moderator after he left?

Personally, I have no business with the group myself. However, reading some of the stories and comparing it with my own time in the early 2010's is an interesting experience. I wonder what has become of most users and wish we could talk to them. That is, if they have no problem with that.

I wish you luck with bringing some of the group back together.

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