Heh. I despise it, and a look into dot_bdsm_snark will confirm that it's a frequent snark target.
I have known some old timers to use it effectively on ssbb, but they never used the backslashes, they just lower-cased themselves and used conventional punctuation with everyone else. That gets to the key of using it successfully: leave other people out of it. As it's heirarchy based, there's something about saying Hello A/all that creeps me out because in the audience there are usually people who are neither dominant or submissive and people who may be, but consider it a private matter unrelated to social heirarchy.
Then there is the concern about crap boundaries when personal heirarchies become social heirarchies. I've had mates who've been kicked off chat channels for refusing to be proper submissives because they wouldn't lower case their names. Even when they said "my dominant partner thinks it's silly to lower case my name".
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I have known some old timers to use it effectively on ssbb, but they never used the backslashes, they just lower-cased themselves and used conventional punctuation with everyone else. That gets to the key of using it successfully: leave other people out of it. As it's heirarchy based, there's something about saying Hello A/all that creeps me out because in the audience there are usually people who are neither dominant or submissive and people who may be, but consider it a private matter unrelated to social heirarchy.
Then there is the concern about crap boundaries when personal heirarchies become social heirarchies. I've had mates who've been kicked off chat channels for refusing to be proper submissives because they wouldn't lower case their names. Even when they said "my dominant partner thinks it's silly to lower case my name".