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I couldn't  access the general forum part. Thank you, Sylvie and Kevin for creating such a space. It's wonderful to be able to converse with people of a like mind and without the presence of trolls. I have been absolutely mesmerised by Sylvie's YouTube channel since discovering it and joining 8limbs has been a great thing. Thank you too, to all the contributors for their intelligent and well thought out questions and answer. This place provides a lot of food for my brain.

 

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11 minutes ago, Jeremy Stewart said:

I couldn't  access the general forum part.

Why can't you access to the General Forum? You should have access to everything above. There is a Woman's Only forum which is in the lower half of the the home page, which only women can write in, but the major forums are open to everyone.

13 minutes ago, Jeremy Stewart said:

 Thank you, Sylvie and Kevin for creating such a space. It's wonderful to be able to converse with people of a like mind

This is completely made possible through our Sylvie's Patreon Support, we would never be able to do any of this without it, and in fact would never have thought to do so.  But I think it's really important to create these kinds of spaces, where different kinds of conversations can be had, and also preserved. Not everything can be a breakdown, or a badass highlight, or lots of rah, rah conversation or argument. But, we have to make these spaces (as in, design them, pay for them, manage them and invest socially in them), they won't just arise on their own. Communication trends aren't going that way. But we are! Thanks for your contributions to the Forum! It's as only as good as everyone giving what they have to it.

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2 hours ago, Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu said:

Why can't you access to the General Forum? You should have access to everything above. There is a Woman's Only forum which is in the lower half of the the home page, which only women can write in, but the major forums are open to everyone.

When it said select forum, the first one on the list wasn't in bold and that was the selection I wished to place this conversation in. It's no big deal, I just would have liked to place it in the right spot.

It is a pleasure to be part of this forum. I really enjoy it. I love the whole concept of what you and Sylvie are doing. The patrons you have deserve a big congratulations for having the faith to support such an endeavour. And the effort you guys put into it is amazing. We the viewers,  commentators and general fans get to benefit greatly.

In particular, I have real fan boy moments with each Muay Thai Bones podcast.

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On 6/3/2019 at 4:28 PM, Jeremy Stewart said:

I couldn't  access the general forum part. Thank you, Sylvie and Kevin for creating such a space. It's wonderful to be able to converse with people of a like mind and without the presence of trolls. I have been absolutely mesmerised by Sylvie's YouTube channel since discovering it and joining 8limbs has been a great thing. Thank you too, to all the contributors for their intelligent and well thought out questions and answer. This place provides a lot of food for my brain.

 

It's wonderful to have you contributing here! A forum is really shaped by who participates in it, so your enjoyment of it is very much to do with your own part of it as well. So thank you!

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