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Originally Posted by loisba
Oh,well, (sigh), you can't please everyone. I must say again it looks easy to navigate. Just to compare, I checked in at OBT, which lists everything under the sun, and found I was scrolling forever to get down to my Myasthenia Gravis forum.
Besides which, I checked spinal disorder in the dictionary. Spinal is defined as: of, relating to, or situated near the backbone; of, relating to, or affecting the spinal cord; While disorder is defined as an abnormal physical or mental condition. So a spinal disorder would be an abnormal physical condition of the backbone or the spine. To me that would have to include spinal cord injuries. Therefore a very logical place to put sci.
Hugs,
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Loisba and others, I totally agree. I was really delighted to see this relocation of the subforum - and it IS an appropriate placement. But when someone is not yet used to subforums (they are still pretty new to me, but I love them more everyday), it may seem like someone is DISCOUNTING your illness or condition - but that is not true.
Medical schools can't have a separate textbook for every disease or syndrome -- they have to have textbooks with many Sections, Subsections and Chapters.
I went over to OBT, having decided to actually COUNT how many forums I had to scroll thru, everytime I was trying to track down an illness (you would be surprised how often I couldn't figure out how it would be described in the forum descriptor.
So how many forums were there?
Three Hundred and Five separate forums
Now no one will ever convince me that level of disorganization has any benefit, perceived or real, over organization. True, this website isn't completely finished -- and a great deal more solid thinking and decision making will make it a much better system of forum divisions in time ..... but the use of subforums is invaluable. No one can disagree with that - in my opinion, no one can sensibly, logically and coherently disagree with that.
For instance, while I still am displeased with WHERE the neurological subforums are still grouped, under "other things" rather than neurological Medical conditions .... while prostate and breast cancer are still in the neurological category....
BUT BUT BUT I DID love how this forum software enabled the SubForum section to stand out so distinctively --- at least it is impossible to miss now.
Teri