A cautionary tale - don't go outside, it's a mean old world -

So I signed up to another messageboard, sad but true, one about a particular spirituality which I've been getting into. I've been on there for several days, got involved in several discussions and just buggered about a bit as everyone was. I even wrote a couple of poems. It's just that sort of place.

I was so pleased to find such a nice little place that I spent about 2 hours this afternoon writing about lucid dreaming. I made a really long post, after having searched and ensured there were no other on the same topic, which surprised me a bit.

It was great! It told you almost everything you needed to know to get started, some info, a link to an artist who uses lucid dreams as a technique for finding images to paint, all kinds of great stuff. I spent ages doing it! I've never done something like it before.

I came back online a while ago to see if anyone had replied to it, confident in the knowledge that it's not the sort of place to let such things sink without a trace, and pretty certain that many there would find it very interesting.

But I couldn't find it.

I searched, I even went through all the threads in my history, until I established it had been deleted.

So I pmed the mod, but she told me my post was basically just an ad for lucidity.com (DISCLAIMER - this is not an ad for lucidity.com just because I have mentioned it. I do not endorse it as a commercial venture and would like to note that I sometimes find it quite patronising or annoyingly pseudo-intellectual, although to be fair it's often very interesting).

Thinking back, I realised that on an edit I'd put a link to the site in, thinking it was a good resource for people wanting to find more out about lucid dreaming. I pmed back, saying I was shocked that she'd interpreted my message as "basically a long ad for lucidity.com", that the information contained in it was stand-alone and that the link was only included at a later edit so that people could find out more - and besides, it was only a single link (I'm sure of that, as I dropped it in at the bottom of the page after going away and copying the url from a yahoo search).

I got a pm back telling me that in future I was to pm all messages to her before posting them, to ensure there was no advertorial content within them. She is convinced she saw two links to lucidity.com and tells me I am allowed to post what I like concerning lucid dreaming so long as it is unconnected to a commercial venture.

SO.. the moral of this story? Don't stray from good ol' faithful HoP where the mods are understanding and actually read posts before deleting/locking them smile

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau

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