autumnluv143

I'm not going to post this on Noble. There is no need for that. I'm not a member of Noble and I've been sitting around a year now trying to see how this new council would fair before I tried to make that decision. I was honestly giving them a second chance because they went in with high spirits and got some things accomplished. Very impressive. It's amazing how much you know about when you're not there, active and involved. Word still gets around guys.

So over the last 2 days there was some Noble list drama regarding (of all things) event announcements. The calender is fixed (hoorah!) but it was down and outdated for two years. Hard for people to rely on something that relies on other people to keep up with it. When these points were brought up, by someone who fully supports the community if she can in everyway BUT going to the functions, it was responded to, harshly by members of Noble. There are about a zillion reasons she doesn't make functions, but she tries. She reads the posts and information from the local groups and relays that into other peoples hands so that they will have the information too. She hasn't talked badly about Noble in the last year because she, too, was trying to see how the new council would do. She's just not very good at controlling her tongue when she's confronted. There were better ways to handle that entire "discussion" from both her and the Noble council (and btw, how hard is it, during the hundred or so emails in a week to add 2 lines to the end and say "Oh, btw..don't forget the blahblah function on Wednesday!"? <eyeroll>).

It was brought up that the Slidell group does not support Noble, that they only support RSVP. This is just entirely untrue. They fully support neither group. They support themselves only and attend functions that they are interested in. Unfortunately for Noble, more of those have been RSVP functions. No one is allowed to speak badly about Noble at a slidell group function. It's blatantly not allowed according to the two who run it. That is saying a lot, actually, because talking bad about Noble has become a sort of right of passage. It proves that you know the community well if you can badmouth the idiotic behavior of the past. In the last 6 months, the words "I'm never going back to Noble. Those people are crazy," have come out of more mouths than I can remember. I have tried to squash some of that by saying "It seems as though the new council is really trying to make amends for the past. They're already getting stuff done. I hope they can accomplish the big stuff they hope to." And I really did believe that.

The whole thing about supporting a group with such a tumultuous past is that they are fighting against years of a downward spiral. It's hard to support a place that is known for making decisions that are based on the opinion of one, rather than what is good for the whole. The new council needs to realize that they are not going to win the war if they get sucked into the click-ish, biting ways of the past. And they are. Frustration and stress levels are high. That happens. Carefree living only leads to those types of roads. It doesn't mean that you can respond to a public group listing with tense, nasty comments. There are still a very large population of southeast louisiana kinksters that have been sitting back, biding their time and waiting to see if anything would change. They're watching the message boards. They're judging this new council without being there to "support" the club in person. And everytime a day like yesterday happens, more of them are turning away, shaking their heads and saying things like "Well, almost a year, and this council is acting just like the former councils did." It's not a good thing.

I can't say that I'm going to continue to take up for the current Noble council after witnessing three members respond to a public list (no matter what was originally said) the way that they did. I'm disappointed in them. I haven't made my decision yet. But I'll be damned if I tell the 10-15 new contacts I make in this area in a month about Noble functions. I'm not going to subject them to drama that just isnt' necessary.

This is my personal journal. And those are MY $.02.

If anyone does read this and feels a need to challenge it with argumentative and rude behavior, you are more than welcome to email me at autumnluv143@gmail.com I welcome it, but I'm not having it in my comments.