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    #1 Jens, Jan 25, 2016
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    Hey - This is Admin speaking..

    We have now been online every day since I took over, and the numbers are rising!
    We have passed several landmarks, including most threads in a month, most users online pr day etc, and we are beginning to feel the load. Our servers are banging against their perfomance limits, and we will have to do something about it shortly.

    How convenient for me:), cause that makes a perfect excuse for not having implemented all the new features I have talking about for long. They will be implemented on upgraded servers! It's a pretty big thing though and a lot of things can go wrong if not being handled correctly in every little detail.
    I most confess that I have been very busy with business and rebuilding at our own little Mansion, and Online time has been more than well spent on navigating through conflicts and management issues, I really could have been happy not have to deal with- day after day!

    I finally sat down my foot, as many of You will know, and the echo lasted for days!!
    But I was happy to demonstrate that I will do whatever it takes to make sure that CM is and will remain to be a honest, open, welcoming and save place for us all. I am not King Salomon, but I try my best really to be fair in my "ruling". I do have a Board of advisers and I appreciate to have someone to level with. But I hold responsibility and I therefore exercise authority when I find it necessary. I am only submissive to my lovely wife:)

    Donation
    I really need to get the donation-system back on track,. I have had some issues with the CM@ident.nu paypal, but a donation to paypal@ident.nu still works for All of You. But we need that button fixed!. But Don't You worry. I am still paying the bills;-)

    Moderators - and happy returns
    I am very happy with our current moderator team:) You are doing a fine job!
    Some of You are not online all that much, and I have addressed you individually about that. Maybe we should appoint a few replacements if the moderator-task is too much to ask.
    So changes might come in the near future. I did my part by asking one of the moderators to step down for a while. Well, she decided to leave all together. In fact I had tried very hard to give her space, and in doing that I previously asked Two moderators to step down for a while, and also later asked some of the board-members not to be active moderators too.

    Well, I have now decided to reverse these decisions - they were wrong!

    So from today Board members have full moderator status and obligations once again.

    But That is not all:)
    I am very pleased to see that members , and among them even moderators that I asked to step down 5 months ago - to give space to the one now departed - have decided to return to The Mansion.
    I welcome Mistress Michelle, Mistress Jules, Lucy, lockit a.o back to The Mansion - and I will in the days to come talk with those of them who have been moderators before If they would indeed consider becoming moderators once again:):)

    I am thrilled that they have decided to put my previous - questionable - decision aside , and express willingness to work with me for the future of CM:)

    Still I will be on the look out for new potential candidates too. We need a healthy mixture of experience and new fresh take on the matters in here on CM. So If You have someone in mind for moderator, or even Yourself, let me or a Board member know. With all the activity we have in here, it can be a tough job to handle, so for some to take a break from moderating now and then is perfectly understandable. And I would like to have some candidates to choose from to fill the blank seats....

    Hope I make sense with my broken English;-)

    Let's make CM even greater together!

    Jens/Administrator
     
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    I do hope people will be happy with the new arrangements.

    Xx Wendy
     
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    Great to hear that the decision is paying rewards in terms of greater activity @Administrator

    Onwards and upwards - the only way to go!
     
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    Administrator, thank you for doing a thankless job. Not every decision you make (or made) will be correct, but at least a decision will be made.
     
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    Its almost always a shame when people who have been with us long time, for whatever the reason, leave whether they took an active role or not, but particularly when thy have.

    I know I disappear for long periods now and then but it feels good to know the mansion is there when the opportunity to return arises and I hope those have that felt they had to leave feel the same way should they choose to return.
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    Just look at the list of old friends that now feel CM is a lot more comfortable .

    Xx Wendy
     
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    @Administrator You never promised perfection but you have delivered very near that, in my opinion.
     
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    @Administrator - Your frank message in broken english is appreciated. Your english is better than my Norwegian and it takes a leader to admit he needs help and is not infallible. Hugs
    Lucy x
     
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    The Mansion certainly seems to be attracting more members of late.
     
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    Without the Mansion I would not have managed to survive the first few months of chastity. The help, advice and support I received from many of the members helped me enormously. It has been a privilege to then pass my own help on to other members as well. The Mansion has played no small part in turning my initial fantasy into reality.

    Thank you Jens, thank you all the team who keep this place ticking over.
     
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    Makes a lot of sense. And well done. And IMO you were not entirely wrong in prior decisions: was balanced view and perfectly reasonable at the time; and was also necessary to provide space to enable things to settle.

    It's easy to have 20:20 hindsight.

    But now it has settled.

    And given how it did settle the right outcome is now achieved. Though I thought Mistress Michelle had not ceased role during your tenure, but prior. That said, I've seen her earlier posts and actions and IMO some of them are awesome!

    Well done!
     
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    Sorry was timed out !!
     
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    But one thing more. One of the issues has been what the roles of of a Mod should be, and how the powers of a Mod should be exercised. This is not always a simple question, and has been and still is a matter for discussion in our private Mod forum. For those unaware, a Mod has very substantial powers, including to edit/delete posts and/or threads. The issue is in what situations these should be exercised. To put it neutrally, there have been differences of view/practice on this for some time. This has been a matter unresolved for months, and from before current Owner/Administrator became so. Ii is now being properly addressed in the Mod forum.

    Tis discussion is still ongoing. My take there is: this is a legacy site, so posts/threads should not be edited/deleted unless in exceptional circumstances. But what are these to be? Not always obvious. Any suggestions/yardsticks to the usual channels will I am sure be very welcome and seriously considered.
     
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    Please DO NOT take this as a negative comment, but many people feel there is more going on in the back ground, that 99% of the members never ever see than what board members/mods put into the member facing profile of the site simply by the amount of posting about what does go on behind the scenes??
     
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    Hello Jens.
    You are doing a very nice job. Keep up the good work. I for one, hope Ms. Amanda just needed a break and returns. If you remember, I took exception to something your wife said when she first joined and went lurking for a while, but it is all part of being human. I needed
    a break but I came back. Anyway, its lonely at the top! Just keep your finger on the pulse of the rank and file and listen to them as well as your advisors and use the information to help you make informed decisions and you will continue to move forward successfully. ☺

    allaboutHer
     
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    @TitaniumChastiTi
    Hi
    Obviously there is stuff going on behind the public facing part of the site. Most is very boring deleting spam and the like.

    However as had been said this is a legacy site and mods will be using the delete edit buttons as a measure of last resort.
    Unlike in the past where under the previous owner threads were reduced to meaningless garbage and more recently by one mod who has chosen to leave.

    So in the future we hope that if members play nice and respect each other mods will try very hard to leave threads untouched.
    Thus in comparison to what you can read day to day the mods only stuff is a tiny fraction . Even in the last couple of weeks it only amounted to around much less than a hundred separate messages on all topics.
    Some of that is the unresolved issue of professional key holding which is NOT for descusion in this thread I will start that topic in the bar area.

    So do not get any ideas that there is some big involved conspiracy going on . There is not unlike the old days.

    We are looking forward to getting CM running so smoothly that we only need the lightest touch to keep things on track .
    I just want to log on read some interesting stuff , write something thought provoking and help where I can with folk who have gender issues .
    Spending my time sorting out back room stuff is necessary but not fun .

    CM is for fun let's keep it that way .

    Xx Wendy
     
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    i like it as well Wendy but i wish that you cud come on the chat. it been ages and ages and ages.
     
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    Mr Administrator, for sure a demanding and difficult title and responsibility. Jens, you have and will make decisions that are not always popular or the best at the time. But I think every decision made was with your best intentions for the condition and continuation of the Mansion. The measure of a successful leader is having made more good decisions than bad. You are a successful leader. Continued good luck and enjoy your numb penis...........T
     
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    Thanks:)
    At least I can't be blamed of being thinking with my dick - LOL!! It is in coma;-)
     
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    I was thinking that although your dick is in a coma it still gets up and works for your Mistress only it doesn't think or feel anything, so it is more like a Zombie Dick!
     
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    A zombie dick it is! . Just don't tell her. That would freak her out - LOL! ;-)
     
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    However the description and how it feels it's a very good choice of words
    Xx Wendy
     
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    Hello administer thanks for doing a good job in keeping this website up and running. I have one question is there any way to monetize this web site to help you pay for the upkeep of the mansion.
     
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