Originally Posted by Thelma

I have my own opinions on what has happened to braintalk but there seems to be a million differing ideas of what has happened over the years there.

Banning had to be instituted as there was no other recourse left open but to ban.

The site could be in the most neutral of areas and there would suddenly be a post of outrageous phornography appear by a simple click. There would be pictures that would even by todays standards shock us all again.

You had to start banning them and follow through to the people who were their servers. There was no other way. Me...I would have said to hell with this and let the site go but John stayed through it all and took the most hellish flak you could imagine.

As to being at MGH. Officially the site was not connected to the hospital but to the Neurology department thru his boss. They gave him a room and I think his first computer to use for the site. Some monies to be sure but never enough to suffice as the site grew and grew.

His former boss at MGH is on his board at Braintalk.org right now. His Doctor friend from MGH is as well who was a person that tried his hardest to raise the profile of the site with John to be recognized as more than just a chat room.

As for all those trying now to tell him how to change the site and being so vocal on their problems with it I suspect they would not be so vocal nor need to be if they had of just taken the opportunity he put out over and over requesting people to offer their help.

He needed moderators. Who came to his help. Not me. I too never volunteered and so he took what was there. Now I could tell you exactly who they were and who they are now but that is beside the point of my intention in writing this .

John I think, was desperate for help and the one masquerading as 'the four horsemen' came forward to offer his help. His operandi was a beauty to watch and see happening. He haunted all of the posts John put in and would have supported anything and everything John would say.

He complimented and graciated his every posting with sanctimonious flattery.

Soon he learned John was going to San Francisco and there was his opening. He called the hotel and invited John for dinner. I don't know if it came about but that tidbit told me he had his foot in the door.

Soon we had Mr Hosobuchi being pitched to one and all. No one was told he was a member but then all of the moderators were members as well so nothing unusual there. Except the hillarious postings of Moderator 4 and Firehorse talking to each other in chat and on the site was too funny for words. Around that time I was emailed and told to watch out for the action being played out. Seems the fourth horseman had joined the threesome as the chat moderator. Yep now it was 3 in 1 we had to deal with.

So I read a lot and time after time watched them all appear as if they were talking to strangers and not it being just one person talking to himself.

He complimented himself and thanked himself for the compliment and I laughed my head off.

But the problems then began to appear. It seemd none of the three in one could take any jokes or comments against one personality without all three bringing the one person to bear taking them all on.

Weird.....................you better believe it. And he fooled so many people the different forums and in particular the chats.

I tried to contact John and no answer. Till one day I watched a performance that had me amazed at the audacity or indeed the stupidity of the man.

He was in the chat room as one personality and telling a man there he was going to report him to the chat moderator [another of his own personalitys] as being rude and obnoxious.

Well low and behold the 'chat moderator' comes in and tells the man he is going to report him to moderator 4 and have him banned.

I go to the Als forum just in time to see moderator 4 ban the man.

He set him up as one..........reorted him to two and banned him by three

And all these personalitys were under the guise of David Hosobuchi

And there we have the four horsemen

That is why I say all of the problems that are really wrong with the Braintalk site fall on the shoulders of him.

He is a deceitfull, lying, human being who is using John Lester and if John knows it now or not he will if he ever reads these forums.

So should this forum remain..............................no

It is only a forum that reflects all of the hurts and humiliations the banned members have felt over being banned at braintalk or suffering from the mods incapacity to understand human emotions. But the medications for some of our ailments are reflected in our mental capacity to feel our own pain let alone the pain of others.

This can only be solved at Braintalk.

I hope I can see you there after this but I assure you I have said this all to John at least four times and to David Hosobuchi many times and I was still there at the closing last month as well as the chatroom today.

Braintalk was the best thing to happen for the communication of thousands in all of the time I have been involved with disabilities.

It can be again. I have an idea of what to do and I will look into and post back if it is feasable.

But we need to try because Braintalk was and is the best there is. All of these other sites have no way near the feelings of friendship and caring that John has brought forth in this myriad of differing and different human beings.

And you all still don;t care less you would not be here talking about it.

You have a good site Paul and you too 'doc' but they are nothing comparable to what we will have again once Braintalk is up and running.

There I said it and I can now have a coffee...........................

Sincerly Thelma