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galileo2333 wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:54 pm I'm asking that because you mentioned that you are attempting to provide an alternative to Virped, an anti C faction.

I just want to make sure that advocating decriminalization and social acceptance of AMSC, commonly known as pro-C, is still a welcome ideology to promote here.

Virtuous Pedophiles (VirPed) – Virtue signaling as a profession. “Have you even considered that maybe not all AMSC leads to harm? You are not welcome!” … “What’s that, you’ve read research that backs up your point? BANNED.” There is no nuance and you can’t voice any contact stance opinion that isn’t “All AMSC is always morally wrong and is always harmful, no exceptions.”

That said, VirPed is very active, and actually has a lot of normie MAPs who aren’t incapable of reason. I’ve met people there with much more nuanced opinions, but they can’t openly voice those opinions on VirPed. The members are more chill than the mods/admins.

VirPed is probably the most accessible gateway into the MAP community, especially for people with internalized shame. People often start there.

Jim Burton wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 1:28 pm Apologies again for the delays in the restructuring of the forum.

I do realize there are huge flaws in the design of the forum, and it needs more admins, more peer support functionality with clearly demarcated private areas to be popular and successful.

Unfortunately, I am not a phpBB admin, have not found any admins and can not carry out these changes myself. This is the brutal reality.

I am still committed to the plan to move the forum into community ownership, rebrand it and grow its size.

Officerkrupke wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 1:42 pm What I’ve noticed personally is that we get new members for a few days who post, then they drop off and rarely return. Probably due to lack of activity they observe. I will invite some people from Virprd and VoA here if possible.