[paula_w]

I will admit to a bit of paranoia for a day, and I do appreciate your patience. I felt jerked around by a few posters, and spent too much time on Huffington Post while the forums were down. lol

Paula

[indigogo]

Paula -

A little bit of paranoia is probably a good thing - keeps you on your toes!

I guess I am more sad than amazed that we can't just accept this (for now) temporary home as a gift from someone who saw a need and filled it. My interpretation has always been that, given Doc John's background as a psychologist, he understood the importance of BrainTalk as psychological sustenance for many - and that its disappearance without explanation for a long period of time was not good. I believe there are people who do things without expectation of reward - except for that of the good deed itself.

The long time without a word from John Lester has me baffled - the justifications aren't plausible; the hardware/software issues should have been fixed more quickly, and JL's long silence seems out of character. It just doesn't make sense, but speculation also doesn't make sense. An interesting game, but not very productive.

Maybe someday we'll know the whole story; maybe BT1 will come back. In the meantime, thank you Doc John!

Cheers,

[Thelma]

Welcome to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation's message board. This board is part of a partnership with "BrainTalk Communities" sponsored in part by the Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Neurology.

This is a direct copy from Braintalks list of forums. Why some forums and not all?

The above is not true and hasn't been for a long time.

Something is weird here. You 'doc' offered to help John and when he did not reply you went ahead and took from his forum hils words and created this one.

He did not want your help nor did he ask for it. Yet you did it anyway. Why?

I think you copied his forums but when did you do it and how did you do it after the site went down.

You had to have done it before....................something is not right here.

Originally Posted by Thelma

[B]
This is a direct copy from Braintalks list of forums. Why some forums and not all?

The above is not true and hasn't been for a long time.

Something is weird here. You 'doc' offered to help John and when he did not reply you went ahead and took from his forum hils words and created this one.

He did not want your help nor did he ask for it. Yet you did it anyway. Why?

I think you copied his forums but when did you do it and how did you do it after the site went down.

You had to have done it before....................something is not right here.

huh? He didn't add all the forums? Where is this entitlement coming from?

DocJohn you are a patient man aren't you? lol

[stevem53]

Maybe it is simply a random act of kindness as Dr John says it is

[swift]

Originally Posted by Thelma

Welcome to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation's message board. This board is part of a partnership with "BrainTalk Communities" sponsored in part by the Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Neurology.

This is a direct copy from Braintalks list of forums. Why some forums and not all?

The above is not true and hasn't been for a long time.

Something is weird here. You 'doc' offered to help John and when he did not reply you went ahead and took from his forum hils words and created this one.

I think you copied his forums but when did you do it and how did you do it after the site went down.

You had to have done it before....................something is not right here.

Gosh, conspiracies abound! The fact that whichever forum says that is indicative of the fact that DocJohn got the basic list of forums *after* BT2 went down, using the Wayback machine or webarchive (a simple google search will let you find those).

Swift

[DocJohn]

Swift has it right -- I just went to archive.org and copied the list of the "biggest" forums (because there were so many and my time is a little limited), and their descriptions, and created BT2 from that. I admit I didn't read the descriptions in many cases, but will go back and edit anything inappropriate or inaccurate.

As for my purpose, it is as others have suspected... I have a *lot* of respect for online communities and have learned a lot from running them for the past 11 years. One of the things I've learned is that many, many people rely on them as literal lifelines to the outside world. You take away one of the only or few lifelines of a person and you can cause a lot of emotional pain.

As a psychologist, I can't help but look for ways to help people reduce their pain.

So when I see a community seemingly abandoned, with little regard for the daily support so many people appreciated and needed, and I can take some positive action to help, then I'll do it. It's just my nature.

John

[Wittesea]

Originally Posted by unknown

With a site like BT things are a little different - MGH is definitely a well respected hospital which has been around a long time. A little less concern about misuse is obviously appropriate.

BT has not been affiliated with MGH in a number of years - and in fact the BT server has been housed in a hackers den for a few years.

So if you feel as if less concern is needed at BT (in a hacker den) that is your opinion. However, I personally feel much safer here where my IP address is not available to members of L0pht Heavy Industries (as it is on the BT servers).

[Pamster]

Originally Posted by Granola Liberal

Um....I was of the opinion that Hasty Pastry was a bakery in Boston. Does anyone have solid evidence that it was a "hacker's den", or is this just another wild rumor being repeated as fact?

DocJohn: thank you again for all you have done.

Ditto on both counts Granola Liberal.

[stevem53]

Originally Posted by Granola Liberal

Um....I was of the opinion that Hasty Pastry was a bakery in Boston. Does anyone have solid evidence that it was a "hacker's den", or is this just another wild rumor being repeated as fact?

DocJohn: thank you again for all you have done.

I thought it was in Cambridge