[ass_phlegm]

Hey all! AP here. I'm just wondering what the general community here feels about what is and what isn't too tasteless for poopreport. This is just a question, I have no interest in changing anything. Just curious.

What kinds of post do you enjoy reading and which ones do you absolutely have no interest in? Especially, things that might cause you to not visit the forums anymore.

Is there content that disturbs you and causes you to cringe? What types of posts are you most likely to resond to? What types of posts do you look forward to and enjoy reading?

People are gonna post what they want to, but I think if everyone voices their opinions on this it might help out people who aren't sure on what to post. After all, the forums are a great way of communicating and I thought it might be helpful if we had a reference to what people think.

Some of you know my opinion, but what do you think?

All responces are welcomed.

-AP

[doniker]

I enjoy reading intelligent, genuine material. As long as a real person has a real topic to discuss that is great.
So I don't enjoy fake stories and immature babble.

[The_Shitman]

I prefer reading and posting about true stories about people who have issues with fecal matter.

The anger, sadness or joy as far as interaction with feces or someone elses fecal waste.

If your from Salem Oregon and visit the malls, theater, or Denny's resturant then you may have seen my artistic expressions.

Regal cinemas was for awhile known as fecal cinemas while I worked there.

Anyhow there ya are.

[AssBlaster2000]

I also don't like blatantly fake stories, but they're not one of my biggest pet peeves. Scat fetish people are also lame, but they seem to get the hint when they are ignored. The worst thing to me is people who post excessively and every post is about the same thing, or about something that doesn't matter. People who do something just for attention rub me the wrong way.

[ass_phlegm]

Now that some of you have expressed your views I'll share mine for those who don't already know.

As probably all of you do, I too don't care for obviously made up stories and ridiculous tales of stupidity. As AB2K put it, most of the fetish people come, post a few times and then leave, so that's no big deal.

I also agree with what AB2K had to say about redundant mindless posts which are clearly aimed at "rubbing people the wrong way".

I DO enjoy posts that are informative, humorous or intriging to ponder and then reply to. I also enjoy things that all people can get in on and not things that are put in a discriminatory way, alienating other readers.

We all remember TCM I'm sure, and he is probably the perfect example of what I'm not interested in as a forum reader/poster.

-AP

[Pooperscooper]

I like:

Poop stories that are factual--truth really is stranger than fiction, anyway. Besides, telling tall tales is often a way of bragging and serving our pretensions. Real poop stories are fascinating and powerful because they challenge our pretensions and strip off our masks. Poop is one of the few things, like death that and birth that we all have in common--it undercuts gender, class, ethnicity, political affiliations, religious belief. Poop and pooping are subversive! We are not supposed to be interested in it. Out of control pooping threatens our sense of our selves as adults. Our terror is to wind up in diapers again. The most powerful, dignified head of state wants us all to forget that he or she poops.

When I was 4 years old and on a walk with my dad, I saw him flirting with a gorgeous blonde. I didnt like this. Right at a delicate moment, I sabotaged the whole thing by piping up, 'My Poppa poops.' Totally killed the mood!

What I like on Poopreport

Stories that give the whole context of the poop experience--the people involved, their attitudes, locale. Context matters when it comes to poop

Curiosity, both social and intellectual. Its one thing to read about poop, but it becomes fascinating when the person wonders why it happened, why certain people are embarrassed and others are not, etc.

Poop stories that tie seemingly incompatible subjects together (poop and religion, poop and romance, etc.)

As I put it to Dave what I like about PR.com is that we are a salon, a place where we can play with our experiences of poop, play with the ideas that come up.

PR is a place where we remain adult, but go places where adults supposedly do not go--talking and thinking about poop and pooping. We are exploring one of society's forbidden zones.

We are a community of fellow explorers. I have been struck by how much we care about each other--and that we take note and feel concerned when one of our regulars has not posted in awhile. I think that is rare.

I have told a number of people 'Poopreport.com is helpful. We are ribald and we are earthy, but we are not nasty and not fetishy.' There's a quality here that I would consider gentlemanly, yet earthy. A frankness combined with a radical sense of fair play. Kind of like Joe Bob Briggs. Ive often said, 'Poopreport is for good ole boys--of both genders.'

Sexuality is interesting here. I think Poopreport is best when we focus on the relationship as the context for pooping. If pooping is fetishized, it is no longer a subject in its own right, but becomes subordindated to the quest for erotic gratification. The focus shifts from poop and pooping to getting one's lust satisified, and there's no curiousity about poop for its own sake and PR.com risks losing its identity.

I am not a scholar of fetishism, but my hunch is fetishism gets its energy by focusing selectively and intensively on just one thing, (eg poop) for the purpose of getting turned on. Poop and pooping are made to serve as means to and end.

But to appreciate and explore poop and pooping, you cannot fetishize them. Instead you have to at all aspects of poop and pooping, for its own sake and look for sexual gratification on other sites that have an erotic agenda.

Poop report's agenda is social-intellectual-playful and we stay curious. We dont eroticize, because we are a SALON, a brokerage place for ideas and stories, not a fetish site.

Our motto, should (with a nod to Oscar Wilde) be 'Poop for Poops Sake', rather than 'Poop for the Sake of Getting Turned On.'

At least, that's my two cents.


What I do not like is:

Nastiness for its own sake. Thats emotional vandalism. And its immature.

Voyeurism--The voyeur hides, never reveals him/herself, but exploits other people's openness. PR.com is a community--and, in some ways a band of explorers. Voyeurism destroyes community because the voyeur exploits the vitality and openness of the community while refusing to join that community.

[ass_phlegm]

Pooper,

That was an amazing, well versed and intoxicating post!! I've read it several times to soak it all in. I don't think anyone could ever sum up the meaning of PR the way you did! You are and outstanding member and I look forward to your future submissions!

I am honored to be a member of a community along with such divine individuals such as yourself.

Bravo! Thank you for taking the time to express yourself. I knew I would get great reponces to this post!

-AP

[Pooperscooper]

I am not against fetishism, per se; but only in its proper place. PR.com is something different--we have a much larger agenda than fetishism.

Did not realize until I wrote that post that it was my destiny to become a Poopreporter. Four years old, and I was already reminding the adults that they pooped! I do not remember that particular incident; my father had enough of a sense of humor that he reported the whole thing to Mom afterwards, and she in turn told me.

As she put it, 'You were just four but you were perceptive enough to worry that your homelife was being threatened and you found an ingenious way to sabotage illicit flirtation.'

Flirtation relies on fantasy. Reminding people that they poop brings things right back to reality!

I like Doniker's comment: 'Like snowflakes, no two shits are ever alike. Each one is unique.'

Bravo!

[Poop Ivory]

I am pretty much with ass_phlegm. Alienating others is annoying (there have been a few homophobe posts worth ignoring), as are the fetishists. Most annoying are fetishistic fictional posts. But as was mentioned above, ignoring them seems to get them to leave. Overall the real stories are best, as are informative posts where you can actually learn something. I like that there is virtually no flaming (that I have seen) on this site. Who would have thought that a site dedicated to poop would attract so many mature participants!! I guess we can thank the moderators for that. Overall I am very glad to have discovered this "community."

[poopzalot]

Poop fetish is probably one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen. I have seen videos of this online and actually gagged....why in gods name would someone eat feces, let alone someone elses....or have orgys in fecal matter. Something very wrong there.

I like this forum for the simple fact that I have a place to laugh about having Ulcerative Colitis. I can laugh about loud and enourmous shits, shitting on the side of the road, using the womans room when the mens room is occupied, shitting my pants, farting a squirt, and endless other things that come along with IBD.

Great forum....but for the love of god dont eat poop.

PZ

[doniker]

I don't understand shit eating either.

I saw this movie with this sexy hot young blond chick, she was beautiful from head to toe. She laid down on the floor face up and this guy with a big hairy ass squatted over her face a squeezed out an enormous 14 inch slimy log which dropped into her mouth. She then bit down on the thing and chewed.
Maybe it was fake, but I don't think so. It was a close up and looked damn real to me. I am alittle queasy now thinking about it.
What could have gone so wrong in this beautiful woman's life to stoop to this level?

Then there was this movie with an oriental woman.......forget it I don't want to think about this anymore.

[noshitsherlock]

I was trying to think of how to word what kept drawing me back to PR, then I read Pooperscooper's post and realized I didn't need to work on it anymore -- it could not be phrased any better. Thanks for putting into words what is so good about PR. I find it amazing how welcomign everyone is -- sites like this frequently form solid cliques and I haven't seen much of that. I don't post often, yet I still feel welcome here. Just another reason to love PR.

[AssBlaster2000]

This place is definitely friendlier than other forums. It's rare to find a place that welcomes newbies like PR does.

That said, however, sometimes things around here bum me out. A lot of the humor that was prevalent here last year is gone. Every day I would come on here and have something new to laugh at. Of course a lot of it was making fun of TCM, but it seemed like threads in general were funnier.

I don't know why this is. Maybe it's because we don't have an Omega Wolf anymore. Maybe it's me - maybe I've been on here too long and grown jaded.

All right, go ahead, let the flames begin.

[ass_phlegm]

OK, AB2K, if it's humor you want...you got it! That's my department! Although I love the forums as a place of pure communication for poop reporters, I must I admit that there were some very entertaining threads as you said about a year ago.

I'm gonna do my best to spice up the forums with a little "Ass Phleggm style humor". Maybe it will encourage others to engage in some more "less serious" threads and we can lighten up a little and have some fun...like old times!

Everyone with me?
(We can still discuss anything, but we'll have threads to laugh and poke a little fun too. If anything, PR has been known for it's diversity, so let's take it to the next level. Show the new people how we used to do it!)