[Doody]

# Links in your signature are okay, as long as they are your personal site (no commercial links allowed in one's signature, ever).

So if my passion is pet adoption or a cure for breast cancer, should those links go in just my profile? Not in my signature in posts? I think that's what I'm reading but sometimes I misread stuff.

And I started blathering away in another thread to Doc before I saw that comments should be made here about the terms.

So...we should only discuss the illness at hand in any particular forum but not about, oh, what movie we saw last night. Or, what great recipe our aunt gave us?

We've had a tendency to do that in Suvivors of Suicide forum, but maybe we shouldn't have been.

Just wondering. I have fibro, CMP, ADD, depression, deupytrens syndrome, ulcerative colitis, TMJ, a shot spine....my brain doesn't know how to function anymore so I'm must wondering, don't mean to be a pain in the *****.

[DocJohn]

I think we can make exceptions for links in signatures for charities, causes, things like that. I can update the guidelines to reflect that, sure thing.

As for what's discussed in each and every forum, I think I'll leave that to the community to decide. If folks are okay with off-topic (OT) discussions in every forum, I will be too.

John

[redjpwranglergirl]

Doc John & to "whomever else it may concern"-

I have a question that's been "rattling around" in my brain and I'm not trying to be a comedian here , and am not talking about anything that's happened YET- just one of those "what ifs". For the sake of argument, what if one of the mods happens to be rude in a reply to a poster or says something in their regular, "un mod" self in a reply to a thread that seems to be rude or uncalled for.....and people decide to hit that little red triangle and report the post, would that mean that they're reporting a mod to the mods? What if that particular mod moderating a particular forum was the one who had been rude? Would that mean we were reporting that mod to him/her own self?! Again, not trying to be a smart@#$ but would another mod then have to send the rude mod a PM or what? Just my curiosity....

[DocJohn]

We will endeavor to have more than one person assigned to every forum, even if kimmydawn (kd) and I have to be the second person. This will ensure every report is taken seriously, even those against the mods themselves.

If you *ever* have any doubts about anything going on here, PM me or kd and you will get an answer. It may not be immediate (give us some time to look into an issue), but you will get an answer. Unlike other forums, we're here, we answer PMs, and we will be here in the future.

John

Originally Posted by redjpwranglergirl

Doc John & to "whomever else it may concern"-

I have a question that's been "rattling around" in my brain and I'm not trying to be a comedian here , and am not talking about anything that's happened YET- just one of those "what ifs". For the sake of argument, what if one of the mods happens to be rude in a reply to a poster or says something in their regular, "un mod" self in a reply to a thread that seems to be rude or uncalled for.....and people decide to hit that little red triangle and report the post, would that mean that they're reporting a mod to the mods? What if that particular mod moderating a particular forum was the one who had been rude? Would that mean we were reporting that mod to him/her own self?! Again, not trying to be a smart@#$ but would another mod then have to send the rude mod a PM or what? Just my curiosity....

[redjpwranglergirl]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

We will endeavor to have more than one person assigned to every forum, even if kimmydawn (kd) and I have to be the second person. This will ensure every report is taken seriously, even those against the mods themselves.

If you *ever* have any doubts about anything going on here, PM me or kd and you will get an answer. It may not be immediate (give us some time to look into an issue), but you will get an answer. Unlike other forums, we're here, we answer PMs, and we will be here in the future.

John

Thank you! It seems like you're trying to bend over backwards to be fair and to clarify any issues we might have a question about.

[kimmydawn]

Also, please know that Doc John and I have access to all forums as well and please don't ever hesitate to come to me if needed, or just if ya want to.

KD

[Thelma]

There is only one thilng that troubles me and that is when a moderator takes out words from a post and leaves the rest there. Then they have taken away the meaning and content of anothers thoughts and words.

They have not necessarily inserted their own words but have inserted their personal thoughts and mind into the contents. Try as you might there is no way for this not to be.

In a way they have upsurped the right to free speech just by the elimination of what they personally deem to be inappropriate.

We are all adults and as such know all of the words that are in current usage today.

Everyone saus ignoring does not work but it can if lyou want it to.

You have to ignore or lose your right to express yourself as you see fit.

Don't get me wrong I don't condone a lot of things said but I ignore them and look around to see what can be done on the one to one level either to change that persons mind on the usage of language or get a recognition of where and when to use it.

If all fails then yell for Doc

So please don't fall into the trap that fefell BT1.

I don't think anyone has benefitted from it going down. Whatever the cause.

[BEMM]

Off topic discussions are vital to a forum.
The accumulation of knowledge a forum gathers about our specific illnesses is priceless, and the chance to vent and to find compassion is enormously important to all of us, but the off topic discussions give life to a forum.
Off topic discussions make a forum a meeting place for thoughts and ideas and humor and creative thinking. Off topic discussions allow us to get to know each other as people, not just as fellow patients by reminding us that there is still life beyond pain and suffering.

birte

[BEMM]

Everett's research is of immense importance to all of us who have Parkinson's disease. One of the main reasons a great number of us participate in the PD forum is that we feel we may make new discoveries about cause and cure by polling and comparing symptoms and reactions. Everett, as well as Ron Hutton, have done a massive amount of research, and we are all more than eager to participate in any poll or trial they propose. We happily volunteer as white rats. The idea that a cause and even better, a cure may be around the corner is what keeps many of us going strong still. You must not take that hope away from us. Everett's and Ron Hutton's ideas and labor make us feel we are actively participating in fighting back the PD monster.

birte