One of the disadvantages of working for a company that requires occasional travel is that you can’t always effectively keep up with what’s going on at home. Take this response to my latest post. Ordinarily I would let it go due to the length of time that has elapsed, but the tone and content of certain posts, as well as this response, has compelled me to write this.
dtrell said:
you missed the point entirely ST...the bottom line is, they can advertise on here all day long and twice on sundays...as long as they dont ACT like they LOVE tickling, trying to lure fools and their money in, ACT like they want to be a part of this community, when they are only here to milk it for what they can get, then never post again. John at passive arts has never ACTED like he was a part of the community....he has always posted like he is, as a business CATERING to the community. he never said that HE LOVED tickling his ENTIRE life and was glad he found this site.....and YES, nikita is DEFINITELY included in that group of cut and runners. and as far as them moving or whetever, thats just plain BS. i know of no part of this country where you dont have access to some public computer somewhere. now this site may be blocked on some...thats entirely possible. the fact is, where there is REALLY a will, there is a way. i have NEVER said that pros could not or should not advertise on here.
dtrell...
You have taken portions of my post out of context and twisted it around, and ignored other parts on your way to completely missing my points. I never said that John from Passive arts said at any time he was into tickling as you, I, and other members here are. I simply used him as an example of one who advertises, nothing more. I would like to reiterate here what I wrote in my last post, that he is and always has been straightforward and honest in all his dealings with the TMF. Without exception, what he has promised in his posts, he has delivered. As I stated before, I am pleased that he chooses to keep us in the loop regarding his various events, and strongly encourage him to continue doing so.
As for Shannon, there is plenty out there to suggest – only suggest, not conclusively prove - that her primary purpose of posting here is to turn a buck and not because of a desire to interact with like minded people into tickling. When she was posting (read that as advertising) with more frequency, she had a number of people partake of her service. Here is an example (pay particular attention to the author):
http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?t=24899
This while you and others were, according to you, shaming her into participating. According to her profile page, she was last online here on 1-20-06, and her most recent post was on 1-16-06. It was an advertisement in the personals section (Southern United States). Or is it OK to advertise in the personals section?
Regarding faithinyou, correct me if I’m wrong here...you have never met her, let alone spent any tickle time with her. Yet you question whether or not she is into tickling or not, based on nothing more than the fact that she has chosen to stop posting here. Where is it written that in order to be considered into tickling, one must be a regular poster on the TMF or anywhere else? A quick review of her posts would tell you she cannot by any stretch be classified as an advertiser, other than stating that she worked for the Dominion. I can tell you from first hand experience the she was one of the best tickle sessions you could ask for. Anyone who ever sessioned with her got their moneys worth. There have been other posts in various threads here that express similar opinions. When I had my one and only session with her, she instigated a tickle fight after the buzzer had sounded; in fact, the front desk had to buzz us a second time because of said extracurricular activity. It has been posted here by one of her colleagues that she was known to do the same with her co-workers when there was a lull in clients. She was in one of the photo sets in the Dominion’s tickling galleries (since removed due to her departure) with Mya, where she tickles and is tickled. Having met and sessioned with both these ladies, I can assure you that all tickling was as real as you will find anywhere (for the record, I was not a witness to this shoot, but I would have cleared my schedule and gotten myself down there real quick had I the opportunity. What a clip that would have made...). These are not the actions of someone who is not into tickling. As for why else she no longer posts here, I outlined a few possibilities in my previous post here as to why that may be, which you conveniently chose not to comment on. I leave it to you to look them up.
Regarding faithinyou moving on, what I meant was moving on from posting on this forum. This is not BS; it happens regularly here, among both pros and regular users alike, and new people come in to take their place. But let us assume that she had moved off to some distant location and lost internet access. You say to just simply go on down to the local library. Tell you what, as I said earlier, try it yourself. For a month or so, give your computer a rest and go check out the forum at your local library. Don’t time your visits to avoid the busiest times. Don’t request the computer in that out of the way corner. And while there, take your time. Start a thread, post on others. Post a review of a clip, send and respond to PMs. It would be interesting to see how long your will power lasts. You want BS? BS is someone accusing faithinyou of fitting in your category of those who falsely advertise, “then bag out when theyve miked it dry” (spelling and grammatical errors are those of the author). And this long after she has moved on? That is a back-stabbing cheap shot with no basis in fact. That is BS.
So at the end of the day, what do we have? Advertisers we have/have had here include the good (Passive arts and faithinyou (assuming you can categorize her as an advertiser) and others), the questionable (Shannon and others), and the bad (people who are deserving of all the scorn heaped upon them. We have had them come and go, and I am not going to dignify them by mentioning their names). You can define the word pro as it’s used here as someone who takes money for sessions. If you accept that, then every member of every group mentioned above is a pro. And in your words, you ...” have NEVER said that pros could not or should not advertise on here.”