[sarettah]

PD got it right (he always manages to surprise me)

Has nothing to do with the individuals involved.

I first started posting here back when I was looking for a board where the discussion was not ONLY the sdult industry. I was looking for a place where there was intelligent discussion.

Prior to Oprano, I had been hanging at VNWR learning the ins and outs of gallery building, submitting, all that. But Voltar's board left something to be desired (for me) because you couldn't piss around too much. It was a great place to learn the basics and an ok place for friendly chat but Voltar drew a line when it came to getting controversial.

So, I found Oprano. I was newbie meat but yet I was never beat down on, I was never insulted (much...lol) and I had no real problem fitting in. I tended to participate more in the political discussions rather than the business discussions because I was newbie to the business discussions, it was better to sit and listen than to show my newbieness off for the world. But in sitting and listening I picked up all sorts of nuggets to work with.

The best thing about Oprano back then was that noone got banned and noone got censored.

People got their feelings hurt here and there because the board seemed to self-censor but the ones who stuck around eventually became a part of it all.

But things change. There is a lot less political talk going on in here, there is a lot less fun threads and a whole lot less pissing going on. That might be good for some, for me, I miss the political threads (I miss going at it with Torone), I miss the fun threads, I miss the assholes board.

Problem is that I have looked around for other places that have the intelligence level and the type of discussion I want and I have yet to find it. The mainstream boards all seem to want you to watch your language and play nice and that is just plain boring.

Oprano was: intelligent, fun, controversial, mean, nasty, loving, kind, and informational.

Oprano is: ?? (waiting to see)