I assume

[DZoolander]

you women also have a "Married Women Personal Topics" subforum - just like we have one for guys (and you can't see the one for men just like we can't see the one for women) - right?

Is it as inactive as the men's one? The last post in the men's subforum is well over a year ago.

 

[“Paisios”]

you women also have a "Married Women Personal Topics" subforum - just like we have one for guys (and you can't see the one for men just like we can't see the one for women) - right?

Is it as inactive as the men's one? The last post in the men's subforum is well over a year ago.

I am a male, married, but I can’t see that particular subforum for men. Perhaps that is why it is so inactive. Can you provide a link?

 

[Paidiske]

You need to start a ticket and ask the admins for access.

Yes, there's a forum for us too. I do think the fact that many people don't know that it's there, and that they can ask for access, probably contributes to the low traffic level. (Our last post was back in April, so doing a bit better than you guys, I guess!)

 

[“Paisios”]

You need to start a ticket and ask the admins for access.

Yes, there's a forum for us too. I do think the fact that many people don't know that it's there, and that they can ask for access, probably contributes to the low traffic level. (Our last post was back in April, so doing a bit better than you guys, I guess!)

How would someone even find out that it exists to open a ticket to ask for access? I don’t even see any headline for such a forum. (More curiosity on my part than a need for access, I guess).

 

[Paidiske]

There are references to it here and there - in the SOP for this forum, for example - but I agree, we probably don't make it prominent enough.

 

[DZoolander]

Really? You need to ask for access?

I don't remember ever asking for access - but then again I've been here a long time. Maybe there was a time when it didn't require that, and I was grandfathered in?

Hmmm

 

[“Paisios”]

There are references to it here and there - in the SOP for this forum, for example - but I agree, we probably don't make it prominent enough.

Thanks.

The first rule of Married Women/Men’s Personal Topic Subforum is: you do not talk about Married Women/Men’s Personal Topic Subforum . The second rule of Married Women/Men’s Personal Topic Subforum is you DO NOT talk about Married Women/Men’s Personal Topic Subforum!

 

[snoochface]

I think at some point when things transitioned from forum version to forum version, people's genders got lost. Or maybe you didn't have to specify a gender if you were an OG, but then you needed a gender specified to get into those forums? Something like that. So some people need to request access.

 

[Darkhorse]

Way back when I joined, each sex could read the other's areas, but were not supposed to post there.

 

[Tropical Wilds]

If my feeble brain remembers right, us old timers who had posted at least once in our gender’s forums (married women’s personal and general women's forums), we didn’t need to ask to get in. But the ladies forum is ever-so-slightly more active than the men’s forum. But our topics aren’t as... Um... “Same song, different singer” as yours.

 

[tall73]

This reminds me of an old story my mom told. She worked for the federal government. They had installed a new robotic mail cart that would follow a chemical line around the building so that people could set things on it and not have to go to the mail box.

Every once in a while they would have to re-apply the chemical line. But they were worried people would step on it and damage it, causing the robot to go in the wrong direction.

So they put up a sign that said "Don't step on the invisible line"!

As you can imagine, that certainly clarified it for everyone.

 

[Runswithdogs]

Married woman here, I don’t know Nutten about any special woman’s area

 

[JRichard68]

Really? You need to ask for access?

I don't remember ever asking for access - but then again I've been here a long time. Maybe there was a time when it didn't require that, and I was grandfathered in?

Hmmm

There appears to have been some significant changes over the last couple of years here - one of them being the 'visibility' of the private forum as we're discussing. I haven't been as active of late as I was perhaps three or four years ago ("ImaginaryDay" in a previous life) and that's been part of the reason. I had to place a request to change my denomination, rather than being able to do so from my account page, which seems really strange. Other small things like that just seem 'off'.
Anyway, just my two cents. It may well have been my old thread that had activity last

 

[JRichard68]

nm - found what I needed

 

[Darkhorse]

I had to place a request to change my denomination, rather than being able to do so from my account page, which seems really strange.

In earlier times when we could change our "religious affiliation" ourselves, one member changed his every week. That may be the reason why we can't do it now.

 

[tall73]

In earlier times when we could change our "religious affiliation" ourselves, one member changed his every week. That may be the reason why we can't do it now.

Yes, I recall that happening. And that involves entrance into the denominational safe havens, etc.

 

[akmom]

When I joined, I was pm'd about the Women's Only forum and invited to ask to join. So I did. If the mods don't pm new members anymore, perhaps they don't request to join.

Also, it seems there are more women commenting on the marriage/parenting forums period. So it may just be a smaller pool to begin with.

 

[Paidiske]

Mods don't PM new members.

 

[Dave-W]

Yep, even to peek in the men's forum!

Hope you enjoyed the view! Lol!

Usedta happen a lot in a previous forum site I was on. We would be talking about the most private stuff going, and I would notice several women listed as viewing the thread.

I often and greeted them by name. Hilarious!