Hi guys,
Just happened to pop my head in here.
Ok, let me just say up front that I regret both the stress on the mods and the deletion of other posters material
due to my actions last summer. However, please note a couple of things. One, I consider what I did (delete 20-25 threads) a very minor correction or edit to a very large body of work (hundreds of threads) and one that will never happen again. And second, and this is important, I began the whole exercise deleting individual posts, not entire threads. Only did I begin deleting entire threads after I received a pm from a beleaguered mod asking if "maybe the entire thing (thread) should go." At that point, I began requesting the deletion of entire threads to spare the mods all their effort. So, I never intended for others material to go, only my own, but that's how the system works.
As for my reasoning in all this, it hasn't changed. I know occ is a porn site, and knew that up front. If there existed other websites suitable for posting less "porn like", I might have posted there instead. But I knew of no other sites. I wouldnt make much of what I wrote in this regard though. I have no regrets posting here as I don't really think of occ as a porn site myself anyway. It's what others might think which caused me to ponder things a little. But Occ is just a repository of naked material from across the net. Most of what goes up here you can find elsewhere.
Of all the threads I had deleted (20-25), and it's been 6 months now, I've heard feedback and complaints regarding only 2, the thread in question here, and the campus run thread. I doubt anyone even misses the other threads, so I think this is a pretty good batting average. I expected that the disappearance of these two threads would raise eyebrows, and they did. Once again, my apologies for the fact that others lost material, but like I said, I intended at first to only delete my posts.
There were really two categories of material of mine I sought to remove. I won't go into the details, but I am firmly committed that I made the right choice. It was a moral, ethical dilemma which I did discuss all the time with a few other members. The mods worked overtime to satisfy my requests, and I really can't tell you how much I appreciated their efforts. If I had not put in so much time and effort into occ over the years, I would never have considered making such a large request of their time.
So, the feedback, both pro and con, are ok by me and understandable. I have no regrets nor negativity towards anyone here, and I certainly did not do what I did out a diminished respect for occ and it's members. The diminished respect was actually for yours truly, truth be told....
Ok, life changes but it goes on. I think I am entitled to look back on 10 years of effort and do a little tweaking
as you try to put your life into sharper focus. Ill let it go at that, and please remember I had no intention nor desire to have others material removed!
Klondike