Elisa wrote:OK... no old friends and pretty much nobody interested... so.... guess this is..... The End.
I don't know who your old friends are, but I'm sure if you stick around here you can make some new friends! You are most welcome, and I, for one, am interested!
The thing is...
this Board isn't the same as it was a few years ago. It's all but dead.
Some of that happened organically, but much of it was the fact that many of the regular posters simply got fed up with the way VW "management" ignored the boards and their maintenance thereof. An even bigger factor was the way that VW "management" treated their bread-and-butter contributors. I'm referring to the beautiful amateur ladies who posted contris, and then came to the boards to interact with their fans.
Over time, we have seen a lot of the amateurs supplanted by "amateurs" who are anything but. Many of the contris are professionals who post on other sites, and even more of them are outright stolen and reposted here. By allowing those contris not only to remain, but to win contests, the true amateurs were left with an uphill battle and it drove many of them away. There were rumors that pros were allowed to win in order to avoid paying out actual prize money. I don't know about that, but pros and stolens certainly took prize money away from deserving amateurs.
A lot of the contributors on the board here feel very protective of their favourite ladies, and didn't want to support a business that was mistreating their friends in this manner. Call it chivalry, call it loyalty, call it friendship. Or just call it plain frustration. For that reason, many regular posters on this board, and friends of mine, left. My wife, who used to post to the boards regularly, refuses to even look at the site anymore because of the way it treated several women that she looked up to and considered colleagues and, in a couple of cases, friends.
Realistically, this place has become like that hypothetical famous nude beach. All the men swarm down and ogle the women, the women feel mistreated and go elsewhere, leaving the men to look at nothing but each other. Eventually, the men leave, too. The women of VW, the REAL women of VW, not the fakes, felt mistreated and exploited, in this case by VW management, and many left. Almost none come to this board anymore. Then, as will be the case, since the men came here to interact with the women, and the women left, the men followed.
This is a rather long-winded rant, but I wrote it to give some perspective. The regular posters ARE interested in you, Elisa. It's just that a fair few of them likely haven't seen your post yet. I, for one, barely peek my nose in once a week. I log in even more rarely. Others may be less.
I can't speak for other posters, but for myself, its a weird balancing act. Whenever I look in, or log in, a part of me feels I'm betraying the ladies who I feel were driven from the site by the mismanagement...Trinity, Sassy, Sheekri, Carrie, and a whole host of others...simply because they didn't feel safe or well-treated, and rightly decided to share their naked beauty elsewhere, if at all. I still come back because I want to support the ladies who stick it out or return, such as BabyCakes, Raphaella, and yourself. But for the reasons listed above, I just can't bring myself to invest as heavily as I used to. It's my little statement about the state of affairs here.
Believe me, Elisa, its nothing against you. If things were like they used to be, you'd probably be trading PMs with a dozen posters, men and women, and having to scroll through multiple pages of posts per day. Sadly, that isn't the case anymore. You, Elisa, and brave women like you, are an integral part of the solution to the problem. If VW can see you for what you are actually worth, that would be an even bigger part of the solution. Until that happens, please soldier on. I will support you as best I can. But it will take years to rebuild what used to be here. And the foundation may be moved somewhere else in the process.
I ask that you have some patience and give us a chance to respond before you think that you are being ignored.