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It appears to me that the days of this board are numbered, there are hardly any new posts, very few of good quality, and virtually no new discussions on the subject of castration. I hope I am wrong, and this is a temporary glitch, but something needs to be done to stimulate this board.

amm_uk (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:49 am It appears to me that the days of this board are numbered, there are hardly any new posts, very few of good quality, and virtually no new discussions on the subject of castration. I hope I am wrong, and this is a temporary glitch, but something needs to be done to stimulate this board.

Great Observation. I have also noticed the change. Most of the recent posts appear to be either political, deep dark cellar, or jokes. And yes, I have contributed to the trend.

amm_uk (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:49 am It appears to me that the days of this board are numbered, there are hardly any new posts, very few of good quality, and virtually no new discussions on the subject of castration. I hope I am wrong, and this is a temporary glitch, but something needs to be done to stimulate this board.

For a board to be vibrant new posts are needed. New outlooks and ideas will help. Many of us have told our stories many times. Please share with the boards your story. In my opinion new contributions and questions will energize the board quicker than the reported demise of the EA.

amm_uk (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:49 am It appears to me that the days of this board are numbered, there are hardly any new posts, very few of good quality, and virtually no new discussions on the subject of castration. I hope I am wrong, and this is a temporary glitch, but something needs to be done to stimulate this board.

Very true. Castration is not an issue anymore for those who have been members since early days. All questions answered, problems solved. EA is more castrated than ever before, that is the reason why political discussiuns dominate. If there is any new member, he can find all he needs to know from searching old posts. Almost every issue is covered.

This is the result of castration

You all seem to be missing the point.

Surely the important thing is that the Eunuch Archive is a meeting place, for any and every person who has a connection with, or an interest in, the eunuch state?

Sometimes we talk about balls and penises. Sometimes we talk about Mr Obama, or bankers, or computers, or whatever. But we all know we have a mutual interest.

The EA ain't redundant! Keep it going!

amm_uk (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:49 am It appears to me that the days of this board are numbered, there are hardly any new posts, very few of good quality, and virtually no new discussions on the subject of castration. I hope I am wrong, and this is a temporary glitch, but something needs to be done to stimulate this board.

I see that you have been here 8 years. You also only have made 19 posts in that time. That makes you a contributor of just over 2 posts a year. You really are adding a lot to the discussion of the board. If you want to read, then go to the story board. If you want some new thread started, then start an interesting one.

We have a turn over all the time in the message board. Many will be active for a while then say nothing for a long time. Or may just leave the board. For us old timers much of the discussion has been talked about many many times over the years. Think that most of the old ones are waiting for new blood to start the discussions. We are more then happy to lend our expertise. I make a good number of postings. Almost all are in response to what others ask or comment on.

Think also lot of the new members look at the messages and find lot of their question answered. Think the need it to have more join and ask questions. Or find interesting facts about eunuch life.

After having shared all there is to share and written all there is to write, I would only be repeating myself. Anyone who wants to know my story can go back to my earlier posts.

These days I find that I would rather not speak of my balls, as to do so is to acknowledge they are still there. How well they still function is debatable, but unfortunately they do still function. There doesn't seem to be much I can about it at the moment, and it looks like they will be with me for the foreseeable future...

If there are any new developments I will be sure to share them here. Until then I prefer not to piss and moan add infinitum.

Archive is a place for information , I rarely post, but I do read, re my eunuch status after all this time I dont see the need to keep going on about castration, it is as it is. Although I dont post, often, I am always there, and ready to give a response to any subject , that I have an opinion on, or believe that an other voice should be heard

I tend to use other sites now, where I can meet other modified guys, in realtime. Without the Archive this wouldnt have been possible.

The biggest problem for those of us who have been here for years and years is that we have seen it all and herd it all, I would love for someone to post something new but that happens rarely. However, when someone is new or been here a long time and finally starts to post the old timers will respond, we will very seldom ever start a post.

And Amm, you can see we do respond, its up to you to start the thread.

River

After exploring my penectomy fantasies in the on topic forums,

I find I hang around the off topic forums more and only when an

on topic forum has an interesting post, might I respond.

The on topic threads often suffer from a seemingly repetitious nature

of some newbie flashing their presence as opposed to reviewing older

threads and possibly resurrecting thoughts the membership has already

shared and adding to it.

I also become very suspicious of such flamboyancy, as might really hide

someone playing, "games". Mods can only do, so much.

Sharing the wonderful experience of castration or penectomy or nullification,

from an unknown causes me to wonder, if someone is recruiting.

Not for a meeting but as to promote someone else's, unhappy outcome.

Lastly, I apologize for my recent "writer's block" contributing to the slow down. Creating threads where the discussion sometimes goes to surprising places, like Alternative State Mottos is fun for Moi also.

I have not checked the Turkey thread yet.

Weather, Hittite, Roman or Turk it just seems like an overlooked area of the map. Sort of like Poland. I mean stuck there between Germans and Russians. I can certainly think of better places to found a nation.

Moi

rambling EA member,

ramble, ramble, ramble

Over the years of its existence, the Eunuch Archive has alternated between very active episodes and very quiet episodes. We are currently in a quiet one, though there are certainly some new members who are making interesting observations and/or asking new and interesting questions. Graylayer, Punkypink, and Moi come immediately to mind. A few stalwarts are still very active and making important contributions, such as A-1, Bobbie, Paolo, Tugon, and Uncle Flo.

One reason for the quiescence is probably just that a number of formerly active members have satisfied their needs and moved on to other pursuits. Another might be that the Eunuch Archive is no longer indexed by Google and it not available on a Google search for "eunuch," where it was formerly the second-listed item after the Wikipedia article (which does have a footnote link to the EA). The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Youth Welfare Office in Heidelberg, Germany filed a complaint with Google that the EA was corrupting youth and demanded that it be blocked from access in Germany. Google responded by blocking us entirely and they have not deigned to respond to any of our letters to them requesting a reconsideration.

Formerly very active members who are seldom on the Archive (other than the Deep, Dark Cellar and the Political Discussions for a couple of them) include Talula, IEunuch, Riverwind, Philip, Thefraj, Randy, Jemagirl, Andrew, and many others. They made valuable contributions in their time, but need to be replaced by other, new, active members.

Someone like amm_uk (or anyone else), who wants to see a more active Archive, needs to post more himself. He should tell us more about himself and/or ask some interesting questions that we need to explore here. There are still many questions which no one has asked of the assembled members.

If you look at the "Currently Active Users," there are always many times more unregistered viewers of the Archive than there are registered members on the board. Of the 3,977 currently registered members of the EA, only about 150 have made more then 100 posts. Only about a quarter of the registered members have ever made even a single post.

The Eunuch Archive is what it's members make of it. If you want it to be active, YOU need to become active.

While it is certainly the variety of personalities and viewpoints that makes the Archive interesting, much of the burden (and excitement) of writing and posting has been borne by only a few of the active members. Only a very small percentage of those who read the Archive, some of them probably quite regularly (though there is no way to check), register as members. Only about a quarter of those who do register ever post even a single comment.

The most prolific and active members account for a very high percentage of all posts here. A-1, our most prolific with 5,398 posts, has made 4.72% of ALL posts. Our top five posters, which then includes Paolo, Kristoff, Riverwind, and Blaise (who is now inactive) account for 19.04% of all posts on the Archive, and the top ten posters account for 26.93%.

That's 0.25% of the members doing 26.93% of the work of keeping this place going. If you want a more interesting and exciting Eunuch Archive, it's up to YOU to get busy and write.

I dont think it will die, theres always going to be people interested in castration..

If you want live live talk about castration and other subjects. Join us in the chat room. You will find a great cross section group of people. We talk about all genders, sexual and asexual people. We have MFM FMM Male to eunuch. Male to penectomy people as well. Nulo is not uncommon for a few. If you want your your sexual person type in the chat room, You have not been in the chat long enough.

Enjoy!!!

I don't mean to state this too boldly, but as a side-note, I found the title of this thread a bit bothersome.

Fox "news" and other media have a tendency lately to use exactly this kind of headline, as it allows them to say/accuse/insinuate absolutely anything, without being beholden to slander/libel laws.

"Obama a Queer Pedo Lamb-Fucker....???" would be a perfectly acceptable headline; they aren't saying he dips his wick into the cunnys of foolish virgin sheepies, after all.

Anyway... as a casual member (is that like a soft dick?), I find it bizarre to ask if this board is dead.

Of course it's not. Perhaps there are not a hundred posts a day every day, but as a general average, this site is as lively and vibrant as almost any that I visit online.

I get the point, though... there are less posts daily than in previous years, but... dead?

Come on.

Thank you Jesus, I did not know that the 5 of us were such chatter boxes. Of course A-1 is the biggest

River

What is this thread anyway, a DEATH WISH...?

...well, you are going to have to do a HELL of a lot better than than that, if you want to kill us...

The Eunuch Archive is alive and well. I'm the Eunuch Archive, and though I may look dead, I'm alive. Well, at least as alive as those two OLD buzzards, A-1 and River.

Seems alive and well and kicking to me.

Well, ok I noticed LOADS of US-only political threads lately, but other than that, business as usual.

A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:35 pm What is this thread anyway, a DEATH WISH...?

...well, you are going to have to do a HELL of a lot better than than that, if you want to kill us...

Thats for damn sure, speaking as the youngest of the old timers, A-1 and MacWolf are a lot, I mean centurys older then I am.

River

amm_uk (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:49 am It appears to me that the days of this board are numbered, there are hardly any new posts, very few of good quality, and virtually no new discussions on the subject of castration. I hope I am wrong, and this is a temporary glitch, but something needs to be done to stimulate this board.

I wasn't here because of the recent extra-heavy snow.

Dave (imported) wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:11 am I wasn't here because of the recent extra-heavy snow.

Thanks for sharing on the Blizzard Thread.

Help keep EA Alive. Upload.

Moi

Similar to junk, someone may find your trivia amusing

I've noticed the same thing, but think it is sort of positive. In the early days of the Internet, it was truly amazing to find a group of like-minded people who shared such a deep, and "dark", desire or interest. It was a huge relief to most of us, and there were certainly active days of discussion, discovery, and argument.

Basically, I think there was a pent up flood of people from years of isolation who all came in at once to enjoy the community.

I think the actual rate of new people with this desire is fairly low, so the rate of joining has probably slowed. Furthermore, the Internet is not new and so people are more used to having such community forums as an outlet -- so the whole idea of a forum is less novel.

Also, due to the lessons learned we've all come to mostly being in agreement about how to approach our desire. The early experimentation in DIY castration has been proven to be unreliable and dangerous. The people who met up with underground cutters (which the Internet made easy to find) paid the price and the rest of us are more wary. We've scoured the whole planet to try to find doctors who will reliably provide the service, and unfortunately they've been few and far between -- and frankly haven't been top doctors.

Anyway, with our wisdom we've become relatively boring. We're no longer seriously considering getting our junk hacked off by someone we meet on the Internet. Instead, we pursue and suggest a proper regimen of psychiatrist then urologist in proper medical setting.

The bad thing is I expect that people who are less wise are not sticking around here, and instead gravitating to more extreme forums. I worry for them.

Basically, we've become a rightfully cautious, less novel, less pent-up community and sadly that does reduce the vibrancy of the community. But overall I think it is a good place we've arrived at.

jemagirl (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:15 am After having shared all there is to share and written all there is to write, I would only be repeating myself. Anyone who wants to know my story can go back to my earlier posts.

Yes. I feel a bit that way too.

However one criticism I would make is that there is an over sensitivity to any controversy that arises. In Moi's thread on Gentiles I got myself into an embroilment with some questions on the diaspora. I prepared a post explaining what I meant but the whole of that sub thread had disappeared without a word of explanation before I could send it.

Cluck bloody cluck.

Nothing like censorship to kill a good thread and discourage posting.

Kortpeel

JesusA wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:35 pm Paolo, Kristoff, Riverwind, and Blaise (who is now inactive) account for 19.04% of all posts on the Archive, and the top ten posters account for 26.93%.

Wow. I thought I was prolific here. I've averaged about 1 post every 3 days for 8 years. Decent.

However, the top posters like Riverwind have averaged 1.5 per day for 9 years. That is really quite incredible!

Note: My participation has also failed in terms of donations and while I have actually met people in person from the board they were not anyone from the "real" community here.

I am proud of my contributions to the News subforum though. I've regularly scoured the news for years to find the best tidbits I can find and share.