[ConsiderThis]

Originally Posted by Chemar

John Lester did an amazing thing by forming BrainTalk Communities, and he is a brilliant and talented person too. That is an undisputed fact.

However, for the past two months thousands of people who desperately NEED BrainTalk have had no access to it, and I ache to think just what impact that has had on many many lives!

The scant updates and continued blank pages must be causing untold stress to numerous people whose health really cant handle it, and the handful of us who have found our way here are totally unaware of the true numbers out there, members and lurkers, who are severely disadvantaged by the loss of those forums.

For a "computer genius" like JL to have allowed it to progress this far is beyond my comprehension

I just wish there was a way to be able to notify all those hurting people that BT2 is here.

That's what I think. (I wish we could let everyone know about BT2, and yes, JL is very bright.)

but equally, there were people who were banned who did not understand why, and were hurt, I mean really hurt by the loss of the only community to which they belonged.

That was not good. I mean really.

So, from my point of view, watching that happen and the pain, I think he's not new to allowing people to be hurt.

In terms of the game... maybe that's all BT was to him. Maybe Second Life is an advance for him from BT.

Also remember that when BT was new he got massive notority because it was used, Used, to study interaction between people with neurological problems. That's quite different than just thinking of a way to help people...

I don't think there's anything wrong with studies... but... becoming famous that way, within a particular community, that's a big payoff. I think BT had gotten as big as it could get... and I think it was having serious problems, with all the bannings. So I think the chances of big payoffs in the future were... limited.

I just don't think something that is really good would ban people who needed the community so much. (Yes, I got banned. But I wasn't as involved as some of the people who were banned, nor am I quite a seriously affected by my illness. So to me, I missed it, but not as much as my friends missed it.)