Hey Who... why do you have your email address in your signature when there is a link for sending email right under your name?
I have received feedback that many parents do like to interact with fornits (at first). I understand this because I was the same way when I first visited the website. Fornits can be a bit intimidating to most newbies with the
porn ,language ,hatred and abuse towards parents who do post their stories… all this just jumps right out at you….. many links take you to some very obscene places,as many here know, which would cause many a parent not to come back.
It took me months before I was comfortable standing toe-toe in debate without fear the admin would get pissed and try to expose my IP etc…. which it turns out my instincts were not far off the mark. I was in their shoes, looking for information and if another parent had their email address posted so that I could write it down and then email them separate from fornits I would have opted for that and felt more comfortable.
Since I have posted my email address openly I have had more people contact me and they had also mentioned they feel safer not going thru the board. They are mostly looking for information on the industry and if fornits is safe to post in etc…. many of these people are new to forums… and no I am not making referrals (as many would like to believe).
As they gain some reassurance some of them begin to post and I guide them to some good forums to read depending on their interests (Typically away from the TTI thread for obvious reasons).
So you can see it is a very benign effort to put parents at ease and get them some information before they move on and maybe convince some to stay and read for awhile.
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