In gen­eral I do not like to bore my read­ers with per­sonal mat­ters. I believe that this online resource should be used to fur­ther the under­stand­ing of what BDSM and in par­tic­u­lar Master/slave rela­tion­ships mean. I can­not help but revisit that goal. Back when I star­ted writ­ing this resource I knew that it would be a very abi­tious goal. I have as job that demands a lot of my atten­tion and I do like to devote time to my slave now that we are finally liv­ing together. I am not someone glued to the Com­puter and I do not neces­sar­ily think that invest­ing money in a hobby is the best use of my cash.

The Return on Invest­ment I get from this work is the know­legde that oth­ers bene­fit and that one per­son might change her or his point of view on BDSM and the many ideas it encompasses.

Albeit it might sound like a com­plaint I have to stress that it is not, I am try­ing to find a bet­ter feed­back loop. In 2006 Jakob Nielsen pub­lished a work on par­ti­cip­a­tion inequal­it­ies on the Inter­net. He coined the 90−9−1 rule which states:

• 90% of users are lurk­ers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute).
• 9% of users con­trib­ute from time to time, but other pri­or­it­ies dom­in­ate their time.
• 1% of users par­ti­cip­ate a lot and account for most con­tri­bu­tions: it can seem as if they don’t have lives because they often post just minutes after whatever event they’re com­ment­ing on occurs.

If that is the case for this web-site then I am in big trouble.

When I am act­ive or a new comic is pub­lished this web-site get around 100 unique vis­it­ors a day. Going by the rule above I would­have nine cas­ual con­trib­ut­ors a day and one per­son burn­ing to con­trib­ute. I do not see those num­bers and I do not expect to see them in a long time.

I am crav­ing a bet­ter feed­back mech­an­ism and I think I need to explain that this is not an effort of myself alone. I am more than open to guest writers, people want­ing to con­trib­ute to the Normion gal­lery and of course other con­tent which might have value to indi­vud­als learn­ing more about our community.

Per­son­ally I feel that I have failed cre­at­ing a feed­back loop which puts me in touch with my read­ers. This web-site is usu­ally not being com­men­ted on, because my state­ments are of a more gen­eral nature and not as per­sonal as my slave’s.

Email, online forms and of course soli­ti­cing for feed­back in the com­ments seem rather inef­fi­cient when you com­mu­nic­ate with a very nar­row tar­get audi­ence. I am ask­ing for help this time. Do you have any ideas on how to bet­ter com­mu­nic­ate with you.

I want to remove the fear some people have when it comes to par­ti­cip­at­ing and com­mu­nic­at­ing on thisd spe­cific topic. The many ideas I have had to make this hap­pen con­tinue to form, here are just a few and you are wel­come to speak and com­ment on all of them:

• BDSM 101, our com­ical take on M/s
• Normion, a free gal­lery of com­mi­s­ioned Fet­ish pictures
• BDSM Fash­ionis­tas, an attempt at BDSM cent­ric apparel and a fash­ion line
• BDSM for Char­ity, the idea of cre­at­ing a fet­ish spe­cific cal­en­dar for sale, all pro­ceeds would go to charity
• BDSM Inter­views as text, audio or even video.
• Inter­act­ive map of Fet­ish Mod­els and Photographers.

Some of these I have begun work­ing on, oth­ers are a grow­ing seed in my mind.
I want the com­munity to be a part of this pro­cess and thus ask for your input.
Leav­ing a com­ment is the easi­est way of get­ting in touch. No wor­ries, your com­ments will not be vis­ible to the world right away and if you make it appar­ent in the com­ment I will not pub­lish it, but only use it to get in con­tact and dis­cuss your feedback.

The doors are opened, wel­come in!