Updates From THE CAGE Team

During these tumultuous times many of us have strong opinions about the state of the world and the political landscape in which we live.  To date we've seen a very small amount of political content on THE CAGE.  However even these have inspired some intense reactions.  We've listened to your concerns and carefully considered what is appropriate for our community going forward.  We've come to the conclusion that THE CAGE isn't the right place for political debate or opinion pieces, etc.  THE CAGE is a BDSM focused community and we want to make sure it's a place for enjoyment, education, and kinky fun as well as a respite from the rest of your on and off line lives.  So for those of you who've asked, here's where we are drawing the line about politics and THE CAGE:

-politics related to BDSM, sexual freedom, and LGBTQ rights are always relevant and welcomed.

-small political references regarding your daily life, the odd joke, etc., are not a problem.

-blog posts and forum topics that are exclusively political will be flagged and removed respectively.

We've amended our blogging rules to include the following:

"Please keep in mind we are a community focused on BDSM, kink, and sexual freedom. We consider political essays, opinion pieces, etc., to be "off topic" unless they relate to the above."

Thank you all for your understanding.  Until next time!

It's been awhile, right?  We hope you are all safe and well and taking good care of yourselves.  It's also our hope that during these strange times THE CAGE Community has been a place of comfort, support, and maybe even a bit of kinky distraction.

We've been hard at work building new features and making technical improvements to THE CAGE.  Much of this work is behind the scenes but we hope you've noticed some of the tweaks and improvements to your CAGE experience.

One of our most visible changes is with "Preferences".  We've given it an overhaul to make it clearer and easier to use.  This is the place to manage your privacy, alerts, and other general settings. 

In "Preferences", under "Privacy" we've added a new feature to help others see when an individual has last been active.  Your profile will show if you've been active "recently", or within a general time period (week, month, year, etc.,).  This will be helpful if you are looking to make new friends or more.  You can also let other users see an exact time stamp of your last visit. If you choose to activate this, you can set your time stamp to be seen by your contacts only or everyone.  

We'll continue to bring you more improvements and new features  Watch this space!  If you have ideas of what you'd like to see or have feedback on current features, please share them in our suggestion thread in The Forum here.

For those who have asked, we will continue to have our (usually Premium) Chat Rooms open to all for the foreseeable future.  Thank you to everyone who has expressed their appreciation and support for sharing this feature with all.

We'd like to thank everyone for their continued support of THE CAGE community, including those of you who support us via a Premium subscription.  Besides keeping THE CAGE up and running, you enjoy many great features with Premium, including BOND, our instant voice and text messenger.  If you're thinking of supporting us with a Premium subscription, you can see a comparison table between Basic and Premium accounts here.

Follow this blog for more updates and other announcements.

See you inside THE CAGE!

THE CAGE is opening our Premium LIVE CHAT ROOMS to everyone for the next few weeks. Let's all come together and support each other, entertain each other, and find some fun and comfort in these tumultuous times. If you want a bit of privacy you can create invite only chat rooms for you and your friends. See you inside THE CAGE Chat Rooms!

It’s a New Year and a new era at THE CAGE!

To mark the birth of a new decade and to celebrate the four year anniversary of THE CAGE we are delighted to release a brand new feature that we hope will transform your CAGE experience.

THE CAGE is pleased to announce BOND Voice Messaging, a Premium feature that allows you to leave voice clips for other Premium members.  You can even use BOND Voice Messaging for an easy back and forth live voice conversation!  Just look for the microphone icon in the corner of your BOND messenger window to get started.

Hearing the voice behind the words makes a difference. Voice can inspire us, bewitch us, make us laugh, and bring us all closer together. Now you can experience it with your CAGE friends without leaving the site or sharing outside contact details.  We’ve also added an additional feature that allows you to remove sent messages, pictures, or voice clips, allowing another level of control and assurance.

If you’re not a Premium member it’s easy to upgrade.  Just click on “My Subscription” to enjoy BOND Voice Messaging and our other Premium features.  You can also enjoy a week of FREE Premium via our Invite A Friend promotion. Either way, it’s quick and easy to get voicing on THE CAGE today.

Happy New Year from THE CAGE! Thank you for your friendship and support.  We hope you enjoy this new feature and have a wonderful and fun kinky 2020! 

Stay tuned for more exciting new features….

Invite Your Friends to THE CAGE & Receive FREE Premium subscription!

THE CAGE is a unique social platform for kinksters, filled with genuine BDSM enthusiasts from around the world. We've been growing dramatically and we’re just getting started! We want to encourage you to share THE CAGE with your kinky friends so that we can all enjoy more local people to meet, more profiles, more interactions, more opinions, more blogs to read - more everything! .

Invite your friends to join THE CAGE and we’ll add one free week to your Premium subscription for every friend who registers. If you have a Basic subscription, we’ll upgrade you to Premium for a week. It’s quick and easy, with no payment info required and no strings attached.  Enjoy all of our Premium features and share THE CAGE with your friends. Win-win!

Inviting your friends is simple. Share your unique invite link privately, post it on Twitter, Facebook, your favourite discussion forums, or share it any other way you like. Each time a friend successfully signs up to THE CAGE we’ll award you 7 days of Premium.  The more friends who register the more free Premium you get!  

Click the “Invite Friends“ link on your top menu to find your unique invitation code.

There’s no limit to how many friends you can invite and how much free Premium you can be awarded.  However please keep in mind that if the promotion is abused the offer may be withdrawn and may even result in account sanctions. 

Psst, just in case you want to keep your CAGE profile private we won’t divulge your CAGE username to your friends.  We’ll leave that up to you.

Thanks for helping us spread the word about THE CAGE BDSM Community!  Now let’s get the party started!

We've added a small but useful new feature to our blogs. If you believe a blog post violates our rules you can easily let our moderation team know. At the bottom of each blog page you'll see "report inappropriate content". Simply click this text and confirm you'd like to alert us about the blog.  This is a confidential action and the blog user will not know who sent the alert.   Please keep in mind that this action should not be done lightly or for any other reason than violation of our blogging rules as outlined below:

Blog Posting Rules

• It is not allowed to mention individuals by name, including people's nicknames or details that hint to someone's identity UNLESS:

  you have explicit permission from the individual in question.
  you can safely assume that the person mentioned would consent.

• It is not allowed to publish other's photos, chatlogs, screenshots, or private messages.
• It is not allowed to publish copyrighted materials without explicit permission from the copyright's owners. This includes but is not limited to quoting stories, poems, fantasies, photos or anything created by others. You can read our DMCA/copyright policy here.
• If anyone asks to have their name, images, or other content removed from your blog you must respect the request and remove them immediately.
• It is not allowed to publish anything that promotes discrimination of any kind, racism, or violence.
• Griefing, spamming, advertising, and other disruptive behaviours will not be tolerated.

We love our blogs here at THE CAGE and consider them to be one of the best parts of our community. We wish you all happy blogging!  And if you haven't started your blog yet, why not? 

We have a new feature for those of you who have published a personal ad or plan to do so in the future.  You can now have your ad displayed on your profile.  This feature will let visitors to your profile know that you are looking and what you are looking for. You'll find this option at the personal ad edit page.  This is optional so it will only appear on your profile if you so choose.

Good luck in your search!

It’s going to be a HOT summer and THE CAGE is no exception. If you've never tried our Premium Live Chat Rooms it's the perfect time to dip your toes in for some wet and wild kinky fun!

Every Saturday through July and August THE CAGE Live Chat Rooms will be open all day to all users, Premium and Basic. Don’t miss this opportunity to chill out and chat with BDSMers from all over the world. Make some new friends, engage in discussion and debate, flirt ,and or even create a private room to share with your friends or that special someone.

The party starts this Saturday - June 29th and continues through July and August. Grab your sunscreen and shades and dive on in!

Have fun everyone!

Sure, we all expect to see some sexually explicit content on a BDSM site.  Hell, that's the reason some of us are here!  But wouldn't it be nice to only see the naked photos we want to see? We think so!  So I am happy to announce our new Explicit Photo Feature!  Now when you upload a photo you will be asked if it contains sexually explicit content.  If you say yes, visitors to your profile will see the photo blurred with an option to unblur if desired.  We consider sexually explicit photos to be any photo containing nudity or sexual activity.  We know there may be a bit of grey area here, so if you aren't sure feel free to ask us.  

For existing photos, you'll now see an "e" icon on each photo.  Clicking on the "e" will give you the option to mark the photo explicit if required. 

It will take some time for existing users to update their profiles so you may still see some unexpected nudity. But as we go forward we hope this will make THE CAGE a bit more fun and friendly.  Plus you'll now know for sure that if someone sees your bits and pieces in a photo they really want to see them!

Have fun everyone!

...and Why You Shouldn't Hesitate to Do so If Warranted

We have a very simple reporting system at THE CAGE and we encourage everyone to use it when necessary.  Please note that reports are for THE CAGE rule violations, which is as far as our reach extends.  If you believe your safety is at risk please contact your local authorities.  Don't forget you can block a user by visiting their profile and selecting the "block" button. If you use Premium chat, please "mute" the user there as well.  Reporting and blocking should hopefully resolve most issues you may have with a user.

Although we encourage you to contact us directly if you need help it's always best to use the official report button to let us know about an issue.  This allows all staff to view the report and also creates a record to use as a future reference.  Mail messages might get overlooked and BOND messages might get missed. Clicking the report button is the quickest and most effective way to get us to take action.

If you've never filed a report it's simple and confidential. Just visit the appropriate profile, scroll down, and select "report".  The following form will appear:

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"We want THE CAGE to be a safe and welcoming environment for all of our members. If you think someone is acting inappropriately please use this form to notify us of the behaviour. All complaints are completely confidential.
Please note if you wish to report a serious incident such as a threat of bodily harm or if you feel your safety is at risk please contact your local police department."

Reason for reporting this user:   

  Inappropriate Content
  Harassment
  Soliciting For Money
  Fake Profile
  Other

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Below this form you'll find a space to add details and the option to provide a screenshot.  Screenshots are particularly useful in evaluating a situation so include one if you can.  The more details you can provide, the easier it is for us to investigate the issue.  If you simply state "harassment" or "fake" we will likely contact you to request more information before proceeding.

Every report is read and responded to, usually within 24 hours.  More complex issues that require further investigation may take a few days, or even up to a week.  Our investigation includes reading any relevant profiles, blog posts or forum comments.  We do not access private messages although they may be included by the reporter as part of the report.

If you are reported and we believe the report to have merit, you will be contacted privately by a staff member who will issue a warning and possibly a request to remove or edit a post or comment.   We keep a record of all reports.  Individuals with repeated incidents may have their profiles restricted.  Commercial profiles, escorts, findoms, trolls, and spammers are banned immediately.

Reporters are usually contacted to inform them of the outcome of their report.  We appreciate that on occasion the reporter is unhappy with the outcome.  Please know that our actions are impartial and we do our very best to be fair to all parties.

On occasion you might wonder if you should bother to report something that doesn't concern you specifically, such as an email or a request for money in a profile.  With tens of thousands of members and more joining every day THE CAGE Admin Team depends on the community to help us keep the site a safe and friendly place to be.  Restricting publication of outside contact details and requests for gifts/cash/etc., are simple ways to keep scammers and trolls out.  Again, all reports are confidential so please don't hesitate to report anything that doesn't look right or that you know to be a violation of our rules.

To all of you who take the time to report concerns, thank you.  By doing so you help us to protect the community and keep THE CAGE a great place to hang out.