So I was hit harder than I thought I would be by learning (in a related thread) that Drew, this site's owner, considers this to be a dating site. I felt stupid and a bit taken in: after all, it *does* say it's the "Bisexual Community Site", not the "Bisexual Dating Site"...but apparently, this is just code...as some others have asserted (and with which I have mistakenly disagreed).
Now I certainly understand that there is overlap between these two concepts. Dating goes on in any community, and likely any dating site inevitably develops a sense of community.
But to me, there is a definite distiction to be drawn between a community site that happens to support dating, and a dating site with a sense of community.
If this is indeed a dating site, that makes sense of a lot of unwelcome comments I've received in chat, in pm's and in the forums...and I hereby apologize to being snappish with members who assumed I was here for what the site is actually for...it was my misunderstanding.
As I have never been here to date, I have disabled my profile (and sheesh, do I feel stupid, always being somewhat puzzled as to why profiles here are called "ads"), and I'll probably be a bit less present here than I've been over the past 5 years. As I said in the other thread, perhaps it's time to shop around a bit more for the community I was looking for. Since the forums do contain good information and discussions, I'll probably still check in now and then.
But I thought that it was worth asking this question, and I'll be happy to read any discussion that follows from it.
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