Too many forums!

[Simplex]

E-Budo members and admin,

please, what is the deal with the excess forums? There are only around 2 active threads in each, due to members being spread too thin among what they wanna talk about.

Clean it up, please! There's no need for 60% of them.

-A concerned poster, who doesnt post anymore due to this problem.

[Prince Loeffler]

E-Budo members and admin,

please, what is the deal with the excess forums? There are only around 2 active threads in each, due to members being spread too thin among what they wanna talk about.

Clean it up, please! There's no need for 60% of them.

-A concerned poster, who doesnt post anymore due to this problem.

For $155 per half hour, we could start soon. Will you be paying by paypal or by check ??? ;)

[Josh Reyer]

I enjoy the "New Posts" feature. It allows me to survey the activity of the entire site since the last time I visited.

[trevorg]

What new posts feature ?

Oh, just seen it, sorry.

Osu
Trevor

[MikeWilliams]

I only use the "new posts" feature. This frequently leads me to stick my oar in places I have no business (Karate, SK, the ninjers... ;) ). It's fun!

[John Lindsey]

E-budo is not only about new posts, its about the archive of posts we have. That is why things are going to stay the same.

Use the new posts feature and you will be fine. Of course, there is a secret forum that you don't have access to. It tends to be a bit naughty in there, and normally only men venture into it.

[P Goldsbury]

E-Budo members and admin,

please, what is the deal with the excess forums? There are only around 2 active threads in each, due to members being spread too thin among what they wanna talk about.

Clean it up, please! There's no need for 60% of them.

-A concerned poster, who doesnt post anymore due to this problem.

Simplex,

You would be surprised at the all new features that have come with the recent forum upgrade. For example, there is an icon (like two arrows) at the far right of all the main forum headings. If you click this, you can shut off the entire block of forums. So, if you want to feel 'exclusive', you only have to see the forums that you want to read and you can ignore the rest.

[Cady Goldfield]

Of course, there is a secret forum that you don't have access to. It tends to be a bit naughty in there, and normally only men venture into it.

Ha. That's the ONE forum I kept pestering Mr. Kohler to let me be the moderator of while you were away. I told him that sometimes you naughty boys need strict discipline from a strong woman to keep you in line.

:D

[John Lindsey]

Ha. That's the ONE forum I kept pestering Mr. Kohler to let me be the moderator of while you were away. I told him that sometimes you naughty boys need strict discipline from a strong woman to keep you in line.

:D

Cady, I think you just earned a new Title. Check it out under your name...

[George Kohler]

That is too funny!

[Cady Goldfield]

Hahahahaha.
Verrrry funny, John.
100 pushups for you, boys. Drop and do 'em.
On your knuckles, with one hand behind your back. *CRACK*!

[Neil Yamamoto]

Dear Dojo Dominatrix...

We ran into a problem in training and wanted your advice.

Recently while training in hojojutsu and one of the particulary tricky ties where maintaining the correct diamond pattern is so difficult, my training partner was screaming out the correct safeword, "sea dolphin" but since we were training in a traditional Japanese art at the time, I felt she should have used "Umi no Iruka".

After asking the local nawashibori groups, who all looked at us like we were nuts, the other gimps, err, students, wanted to ask the sage advice of you. Scott Irey feels that the spirit is the main thing, but the language used is important to help instill the correct spirit, but in advanced gim... students, the language used didn't really matter.

Do you feel that not using the Japanese language in cases like this is OK? We feel that not using the Japanese terms in training causes one to lose the cultural connections which attracted us to training in the first place. Please let us know what your position is in this situation. We have 12 bamboo rod lashes riding on the answer! :laugh: :D

Eagerly awaiting your reply...

[Cady Goldfield]

Impertinent boy. Such an impudent question has earned you an hour bound in wet cotton sheets, stretched out on a plank while a very fat man squats and eats large quantities of pickled cabbage and garbanzos, his naked buttocks a mere inch from your nostrils.

And just when you think that you cannot bear another moment, he'll...

Oops. Wrong forum. :look:

[Joseph Svinth]

Cady --

I didn't know you trained with Aaron and his guys.

[Mark Murray]

Dear Dojo Dominatrix...

We ran into a problem in training and wanted your advice.

Recently while training in hojojutsu and one of the particulary tricky ties where maintaining the correct diamond pattern is so difficult, my training partner was screaming out the correct safeword, "sea dolphin" but since we were training in a traditional Japanese art at the time, I felt she should have used "Umi no Iruka".

After asking the local nawashibori groups, who all looked at us like we were nuts, the other gimps, err, students, wanted to ask the sage advice of you. Scott Irey feels that the spirit is the main thing, but the language used is important to help instill the correct spirit, but in advanced gim... students, the language used didn't really matter.

Do you feel that not using the Japanese language in cases like this is OK? We feel that not using the Japanese terms in training causes one to lose the cultural connections which attracted us to training in the first place. Please let us know what your position is in this situation. We have 12 bamboo rod lashes riding on the answer! :laugh: :D

Eagerly awaiting your reply...

Not to interrupt the Dojo Dominatrix, er, well, okay I am interrupting her. :)

But, wouldn't his really depend on who's buying the best Scotch for after class drinks? I mean, we wouldn't want to flog that person, would we?

Mark

[Cady Goldfield]

I think that flogging followed by primo Scotch are part of the same "package," Mark. And maybe some very good Havana cigars.

[John Lindsey]

Cady, I have you pictured in my mind looking like Lady Heather from CSI. Please say it is true!

[Oda]

Of course, there is a secret forum that you don't have access to. It tends to be a bit naughty in there, and normally only men venture into it.

Funny thing is, that when I joined the forums in 2002, the forum software had a small bug that allowed new members to see that secret forum. I was able to see and read the secret forum, but I as I made my first post, this privilege was taken away from me. I was too confused to even ask what happened to that forum I was once able to see. I believe the admins gave me a hint to just read e-budo and never to post. I ruined the fun for the rest of my life.

[Cady Goldfield]

John,
If that's what you'd like to believe, go right ahead. :p

[Jeff Cook]

Strangely enough, I am getting turned-on by this thread. Thanks, Cady, but I am afraid I will have to be the one holding the riding crop and deploying the handcuffs. :D

Damn, I gotta spend more time here.....

Jeff Cook

[Cady Goldfield]

Ohhhhhhkay. Time for this thread to get moved to that aforementioned "invisible forum"! You know. The one John and George won't let me be the moderator for. :laugh:

[Jeff Cook]

Just remember who started this sordid little mess Cady, and that it wasn't ME. :D

Don't mind me and my smart-butt comments too much; I am sitting around the house on a ton of pain meds. I had extensive shoulder surgery three weeks ago. I have to amuse myself somehow. ;)

Jeff Cook

[glad2bhere]

Humor aside, let me say that I have also seen a good many categories on various forums that lie fallow for months at a time. Certainly one would like to convey the idea that a given forum is well-rounded and interesting. No problem there. However, I wonder if it might not be better to update a forum by reducing the number of categories and, instead, make the forum more media-friendly, say. Thoughts?

Best Wishes,

Bruce

[Aozora]

Bruce, my thoughts to that and the OP is that this is a forum. It's got lots of ideas and often in getting them all out, it gets messy, as it should.

In fact, it sounds we need a new forum, like what the other Neil started: Dear Dojo Dominatrix, a kind of Ann Landers for the odd things that can 'crop' up in a school. :D

[Cady Goldfield]

Hm. Maybe your "advice column" idea could be a sub-forum in the notoriously-invisible one. Jeff can ghost-write it. :D

Hope those meds are helping, Jeff. Risque jokes aside, I know it's no fun being set back with painful post-surgery recovery. Heal quick.

[mews]

In fact, it sounds we need a new forum, like what the other Neil started: Dear Dojo Dominatrix, a kind of Ann Landers for the odd things that can 'crop' up in a school. :D

Well, why not? We've done "Heloise around the Dojo" - 42 ways to de-stink a gi, getting those icky blood stains off the mats, how to keep the nice creases in a hakama and still wash it ...

I vote Cady as moderator.
Moi, I am too young and innocent for the job. ;)

Ta,
mew

[Cady Goldfield]

Moi, I am too young and innocent for the job. ;)



Lol! Come on, Margaret, you could grow into the role! :)

[Trevor Johnson]

Lol! Come on, Margaret, you could grow into the role! :)

What we really need for a forum like that is someone to crack the whip and keep us on topic, cady. Why lay something like that on Margaret, when you could enjoy the responsibility yourself?