We all have a right to express our opinions, including me.

"I'm sorry for you folks who go there" meant I was sorry for the folks who go there who couldn't get in because BT was down again.

So, since you misinterpreted what I was trying to say, then I may have misinterpreted what I thought to be an implication that former BT'ers who were banned were looking for drama.

Lara and everyone else,
I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my comments- they weren't directed at you, Lara, or anyone else. As I stated, I was speaking for MYSELF and stating the way I felt about bt. No where in there did I say that anybody who still reads/posts there is a fool or anything else and I don't feel that way. Maybe things were different in different forums there- I don't know. I just felt that I had a right to state an opinion here as much as anyone else does. It didn't occur to me that I'd be attacked for it. In the months since NT started, I've seen some pretty ugly things said to some people and about a number of different topics but I just read it and if I had something to say, I'd post and if I didn't, I'd just keep reading. Even though I've read some things that were extremely against my personal beliefs, I let it go- you never saw me reply to them. And that's because I feel that while I strongly disagreed with the things being said, that those people were entitled to their opinions- and I have to tell you, some of the things said were VERY offensive to me. While I am known for saying what I think, I don't try to go out of my way to offend anyone or be purposely ugly to anyone. I feel like you have as much right to post here as I do and I don't expect everyone to always agree with me or anyone else. If that were the case, the world would be extremely boring. Again, I apologize to Lara and anyone else I offended. Possibly I didn't make myself clear enough in my post that I was only speaking for myself, although it never occured to me that I was calling anyone stupid or a fool. And possibly it's best that I don't post an opinion on the Community Feedback again because it's not worth it if it ends up hurting someone else, which wasn't my intent. The only other comment I have is, a forum is a forum for everyone, whether we always agree with them or not. And again, I'm sorry if I did hurt anyone and I wasn't trying to take this thread in a bad direction.

Just a reminder. For all posting on this thread as it is a tender subject.

Sometimes the typed words come across as harsh when they may not have been meant that way.
While one may be just being silly or trying to inject humor - another may read it as sarcasm or anger.

Didn't I just spent the last hour saying this? We ALL do, even me, and really did not deserve to be grouped-up on. Everyone should go back and re-read things they have said in the past, and perhaps the pot can stop calling the kettle black. Good luck everyone!!:hug:

This thread began as an informational thread for ANYONE who might need it.

Let's get it back on track please. If you have taken personal offense to something someone has said to this point, please send a PM either to that person or to a mod/admin in the form of a complaint. There is some going back and forth that would be better served in PM for the other members contributing.

Again, there are members here who frequent both sites. Let's respect that and keep responses supportive to all.

From this point, let's contribute to the original topic to avoid upset with supportive responses. Also, from this point, if a response isn't supportive to all I won't hesitate to edit responses and send the member a PM...something I would prefer not to do.

Back to the original topic...

I'm glad BT is up for those who need, use and depend on it. I have concerns regarding the site due to the many problems and hope they're resolved soon in a lasting way....for the members.

KD

I should clarify...

My post was not meant to any one particular member who has posted to this thread, but to any (recent posters to it and not) considering posting as reading it might about some strong feelings.

We just need to get it back to topic to avoid more difficult, hurt, and potential defensiveness.

If you want to respond to personal comments made, PM is a great avenue for that. :)

Thanks,

KD

I just had to share...
 

Thanks KD! Yup, it's back up and even I, with my steam-powered computer can get it. So...as you were, men.

I just had to mention this, ...:ROTFLMAO: ..I just looked at a thread there (BT) and nearly fell off my chair laughing - at the top of the page, under that flower border is a huge full-width google ad for...yes!...
NeuroTalk Communities.
-----> wiping away the tears ...so...so much for the ******s in place of NT links (yes, that was me, not the censor).

Anyway, glad people can log in and load there now, and I see the captain has finally boarded his boat. Maybe the ship will sail again....

all the best.

Well now ladies let a cooler head here prevail lol

Braintalk held the promise of being far more than it turned out to be and JL encouraged many or really a few there to be honest to almost worship him. remember the picture he provided with the long hair and the belt around his waist as if to be a fierce fighter for our rights and standing looking at the sky from a long row of steps.

Thats the propoganda that was perpetuated ther right up to the time he left MGH and went on his own. I say his own but the staff there are his board on Braintalk to this day.

Well it will be hard for those who were so cruelly fooled to give up the dream and many of them still post there.

They are not any different than us save they may take longeer to leave. remember none of us left voluntarily. some were so disillusioned they left and some were too vocal to the new lord and master and he banned them and others leaving were the result of the site being abandoned by John for so long as to let Doc see the need and the advantage to set up this site.

There were no angels at Braintalk and there are none here including the moderators and Doc himself.

We all are only human beings trying to find and make the best for ourselves and anyone who needs this site for themselves.

I don't set out to anger anyone, but I sue do, nor do I try andhurt feelings but I do that as well. sometimes I don't even see the response until much later to even know it. But that is the way it goes on the net.

Myself I do't think there are friends to be made on line. Maybe off ine but not on line. when you talk here you talk to hundreds and in that many differing opinions there is no way not to ager some or hurt some. It is just impossible for me to try and "talk" to one person. It is in the following posts that the responses can turn against you with the multitude of varying responses, don't let it throw such a personal curve at you.

I just read them and if I feel a response in me I do so or I just leave it there and before long there will be someone sharing mine or anothers opinion and it goes from there.

Take these posts as an opinion and not personally and this site will work for all of us.

I myself have a hard time reading all of lthe posts from the moderators and not responding to them but I personally hope this site will in time get to big for them to post so often unless it is really serious to do so.

But that is me. And while I don't like it I can see there point as they seem to talke it personal as well. It is human to be like this. they see something reflecting them or the site and the them disolves and the moderator takes it over.

Very hard to be both a member nd a mod but they do it as best as each one of them can and tha is all that can be hoped for.

the main problem with Braintalk is John either didn't see what was happening or how he was being used and fell into a trap set for him and now has to either face up or leave. His choice of moderator was wrong and it will take him where he did not want to go and I believe doesn't to this day understand why he is where he is.

Things can happen and you have to go with it. I still go to BT as there are many people there who I have posted with for the last almlost 7 years and I have abandoned the site but I will not abandon the people there.

this is to me Braintalk2 and a lot of lthe same people I knew there are here. Some have changed their names but you get to recognize them with their writings and that's okay if they want it that way. I even thought of going that route but decided not to.

So whether this is BT2 or Neurotalk it is what is. For me a Neurological disease and conditions related forum.

Because that is what I want it to be. That is what it was created for as a temporary site for the BT commnity and as such should continue to be or lose it's honor in it's existence.

Okay were here and this is where it is going to happen in the future for us all so forget the lilttle innuendos of posts being edited or changed and the constant reminders to be "nice". We are grown adult human beings and we know the manners of today and yesterday and as human beings we are kind and mean and generous and at times downright irritable.

Not me of course lol lol lol lo

lSo this is it for the immediate future and I sure hope we make it this time.

Sounds like a song [Didn't we almost make it last time] Well we will this time.

Damn that song will haunt me now all day lol

Well, I hope my posts didn't cause all this fuss. Sometimes I get the feeling it's ok for everyone else to say whatever they want but the moment I open my silly mouth all heck breaks loose. :D

Have a great evening everyone. New morning here where I live and it sure looks good!

Anyone up for a cuppa tea?

:rm_milk:

Lara, you are an asset to any forum you are on :hug:

:grouphug: everyone

onward and forward!