Well, as Myriads said in his post, we are 3/4 the way to the $600 we need to keep our chat. Thanks to all who have contributed. I feel it is important that we keep this secure chat if possible. Iam going to share a personal story about the old TMF chat that may be legendary, and that Myriads, the other mods, and those of us here since 2002 know about, but some people who joined after may not. This should serve as an inspiration.
One Sunday afternoon in October 2002, when I had been with the TMF for a little over a month, I had logged into the old unsecure room and began chatting with this girl. She was a new girl who I had never chatted with before, and although I always had asked age when talking to a new girl, on that occasion it must have slipped my mind. Somewhere in the conversation, the "girl" blurted out "Iam 17" and before I could log out and end the session, a screen name "ATTENTION" in capital letters pops up, and says Iam in trouble with the New Jersey division of Sex Crimes for talking to minors. The person just kept going on and on for about 15 minutes, telling me to get a lawyer, and basically scaring the living shit out of me. Not knowing what to do, I logged out, and confessed to my mom about TMF, because I really thought I needed to get a lawyer. A short time later, I had the opportunity to talk to Myriads, who informed me that ATTENTION was nothing more than a troublemaking troll who had in fact victimized others, including certain friends of mine whose names I will not mention for obvious reasons. After that day, I was extremely leery of who I talked to on TMF, until Myriads came up with this new secure password room which alleviated many of those issues. Those of you who werent here back then cant imagine the awful things that these idiot trolls would say to us. We would be chatting civily, most of us regulars, when suddenly a troll with a weird name would pop up and type the most vicious and horrible things in capital letters all over the screen, disrupting the chat for us serious chatters, and making the mods lives hell. While we are all aware that this forum isnt perfect, the secure room still gives us a large degree of protection from having the idiotic trolls disrupt our conversation every five minutes with the spewing, irrational, malicious chatter.
For those of us who are oldies, and do remember these incidents, we should try to contribute if we can to perserve this secure chat for ourselves, and the sake of the mods. For those of you who werent here then, trust me, you dont want to know what it was like, because it was like continued unpleasantness and abuse throughout the day, most days.
I hope you dont mind me telling this story again, Myriads. I felt is important for some of the newer chatters to understand just what it was like for all of us back then, mods and chatters alike. Iam thrilled that we have been able to raise 75% of the money, and I have tried to do my part by contriubting to the cause. I just felt it imperative to impress on all forum members, and especially newer chatters who joined us after this secure room was put in, how imperative it is that we keep this secure place, to avoid going back to the unpleasant abusive days of the trolls.
Mitch
One Sunday afternoon in October 2002, when I had been with the TMF for a little over a month, I had logged into the old unsecure room and began chatting with this girl. She was a new girl who I had never chatted with before, and although I always had asked age when talking to a new girl, on that occasion it must have slipped my mind. Somewhere in the conversation, the "girl" blurted out "Iam 17" and before I could log out and end the session, a screen name "ATTENTION" in capital letters pops up, and says Iam in trouble with the New Jersey division of Sex Crimes for talking to minors. The person just kept going on and on for about 15 minutes, telling me to get a lawyer, and basically scaring the living shit out of me. Not knowing what to do, I logged out, and confessed to my mom about TMF, because I really thought I needed to get a lawyer. A short time later, I had the opportunity to talk to Myriads, who informed me that ATTENTION was nothing more than a troublemaking troll who had in fact victimized others, including certain friends of mine whose names I will not mention for obvious reasons. After that day, I was extremely leery of who I talked to on TMF, until Myriads came up with this new secure password room which alleviated many of those issues. Those of you who werent here back then cant imagine the awful things that these idiot trolls would say to us. We would be chatting civily, most of us regulars, when suddenly a troll with a weird name would pop up and type the most vicious and horrible things in capital letters all over the screen, disrupting the chat for us serious chatters, and making the mods lives hell. While we are all aware that this forum isnt perfect, the secure room still gives us a large degree of protection from having the idiotic trolls disrupt our conversation every five minutes with the spewing, irrational, malicious chatter.
For those of us who are oldies, and do remember these incidents, we should try to contribute if we can to perserve this secure chat for ourselves, and the sake of the mods. For those of you who werent here then, trust me, you dont want to know what it was like, because it was like continued unpleasantness and abuse throughout the day, most days.
I hope you dont mind me telling this story again, Myriads. I felt is important for some of the newer chatters to understand just what it was like for all of us back then, mods and chatters alike. Iam thrilled that we have been able to raise 75% of the money, and I have tried to do my part by contriubting to the cause. I just felt it imperative to impress on all forum members, and especially newer chatters who joined us after this secure room was put in, how imperative it is that we keep this secure place, to avoid going back to the unpleasant abusive days of the trolls.
Mitch
