People have tried to developed a "structure" for this subculture, however, when you get down to the bottom line, people are going to do what they want to do. You can't govern the Vampire Community or Gothic Community like a government or make it into some kind of religion. That's the last thing the community needs and it will not work, in my opinion. A lot of times in situations like this someone claims to be the "Voice" or the "Head" of the community, but that ego has a tendency to get in the way or their voice is not how everyone feels in the community. And there have been a lot of power struggles to get where other's are. What it boils down to in my opinion, is ego trips. If we go outside of our own communities and raise our voices and demand things to change, it's going to be looked at by some in the same manner as I said above. That's why I personally believe in starting small and worrying about my own community and aligning myself and affiliating with others that I know feel the same way or don't promote or allow the negativity, hate and sex. Maybe over time, it's not going to happen over night, there will be change.

It's my belief that everything dies out eventually, I hope this is just a phase, what I'm concentrating on here is my own little community and what I like and what I want to bring back into the community and eventually it may catch back on. I've never been a participant in the Gothic or Vampire Community as a whole, I don't go to events, I don't talk with other's that are consider leaders of the community. I never wanted to be a part of it. I just wanted to have my own site where my own morals and ideas are shared with others of like mind, but when all of this ends up knocking on my doors or DE, our sister site, then it does become an issue we have to voice our opinion on and take a stand against allowing the same to happen in our cyber homes.

And BTW, I'm moving this thread since we have a Subculture forum now.

I am very new to this communtiy, and I am glad that you are respecting the community as it is and was. I find it very sad  about the downfalls of certain communities, and feel the same way you do. I especially find it annoying when I find that some sites claim "myths" to be reality. Such as what Lady Catherine said

True, I do agree that is way past the line. Some people are so focused on their fantasy that they don't see reality. I do hate having to repeat myself when some of my friends" ask questions" about this. It's so surprising how often (in general) people actually pry, and annoy about the myths (vs reality).

Although I haven't encountered many types of "pryer's"-- annoyingly curious--I still have the few friends that know, and seem interested, but only in the mythological part, not facts.  It still surprises me today, just how much one of my cousins pry at the very idea of it. I find it rude, annoying, and sometimes, vulgar.

I understand completely where you guys are coming from with the fantasy stuff. There's so many terrible sites out there specifically dealing with vampyrism.
I've gotten so frustrated with what I've seen and then when people have been subjected to that information and they come here and they try to spew that same fantasy BS here, I get really frustrated and a lot of times, you can't tell them the truth because they just won't accept it. I've never understood why someone would want to be something they are not.  My article: For the Seeker was written after I had done a search for other Vampyre sites out there and I came across one in particular that was really frightening. The other thing I don't understand is that there's  good websites with great information that are linking to other websites that are more or less fantastical crap. I don't understand how you can justify linking to information that is so incredibly incorrect!