Got the boot
 

If this isn't cool to post here please feel free to delete it or lock it but I just got banned from a MS board for being "disruptive" by:

questioning policy

It is almost hilarious. Gee what is it someone once said?

well behaved women seldom make history :wink:

Go Jules! Starting the New Year right!

What place, so I'm sure to avoid it? Sheesh!!:hug:

In a minimal effort not to look too petty I'll pm you. :D

First thing I thought of was that your car got booted!! :p

So, was the "boot" made out of high quality leather, or was the rubber kind that my parents used to make me wear over my school shoes when I was in the first grade?

I've been a moderator on a crochet forum before, and people had to really really really be nasty for me to ban their little butts for being disruptive or blatantly not following the rules.

Lol, no it felt like a cheap knock off version of a boot.

And Kitty my car did get booted once in error also! Someone had the license number before I did and happened to get a bunch of parking tickets at college and never paid them. Talk about embarrassing.

I totally don't feel like I'm mean spirited, opinionated absolutely and I really feel it is important to approach MS in a rational way but I never even once added my opinion of a few psych diagnoses that could have been tossed out there for consideration. :D

You? Booted? that made me laugh! My sweet internet friend getting tossed!

PM me, gotta have the details!

Ok, you troublemaker you, lol. Was is MSW? Why are their panties in a twist now?

I was lurking over "there" earlier this week. I didnt feel like they were very friendly there. (seemed like the people were friendly...it's a bad vibe from the moderators I'm getting)

Too many moderator edits censoring links and stuff. That always bugs me on forums. Especially forums where people are asking for help with understanding medical stuff.

Jules, I am sorry that happened :( You had alot to offer in many of the threads.

NeuroTalk is run quite differently than the other forum. There are a fair amount of members of the MS forum who were once members of the other and some of us still are.

I feel it's important to keep the two separate and not to air 'dirty laundry' here on Neurotalk. I have been a member on NeuroTalk for quite a few years and enjoy what it has to offer as well as the kindness and fairness of the Moderators, Administrators and of course, Doc John.

You are a nice person, Snoops and Im happy you're here..:)

I'm guessing I know the board ;)

I could also post a thing or two, but best not to. All I know (besides my own experience w/"them") is that a good friend also was banned from The Board Which Must Not Be Named. It was over something said in chat. I happened to be there when it all happened and as far as I'm concerned, nothing slap on the wrist worthy, let alone ban worthy occurred....and I used to mod there.

I'm in lurk mode there now, myself. I used to love the place, but lately the atmosphere has changed, due to some mod issues and a member I have had a run in or two with. Rather than say something I'll regret later, I'm just not posting for now. No need to get my knickers in a twist over it.:)

OK Jules,
What'd you do? You always seem so nice here! LOL.

I've been censored, never booted. As a child of the 60's, I am in awe of you. Question authority.

I'v4e done it twice in my former job. One where I just walked away thinking a professional's opinnion was wrong, wrong, wrong and he as an idiot and fought another to get a re-classification. #$%@ em Jules.

Thanks so much for writing. You gals are the best. :grouphug:

When I got censored there, I decided to ban myself and left for here.

ME too, but from boredom not censorship and I was already here..:D

I banned myself from another MS forum because I was being stalked by a forum member. (they followed me to other MS forums and actually into a crochet forum to harass me, which is another reason I dont use my full real name on the internet now) That was back when I first found out I had MS. Not sure that old forum is still in existence now.

Seems like I tend to attract the crazies in real life, sometimes it crosses over into my internet life too. (at least that's only happened once. My real life stalker is apparently too lazy to stalk me on the internet, thank goodness. I dont run in the same geeky comic book store circles as I used to, so I only get him following me if I see him at the mall or a restaurant)

That is scary. Thank goodness I haven't ever been the target of a stalker.

The worst I have had to deflect is cute but useless young men back in the day and now a few of my geriatric patients who seem to think I'm special. ;)

LMAO

How...special :p

I never had the luck of being stalked by "cute useless men". My real life stalker is a freakishly ugly guy who probably still lives with his mother (he'd be pushing 45 by now) and his nickname is "Andre the giant". (only because he's big and ugly, he lacks the sweetness and personality of the real Andre The Giant)

Of course, he's a useless tool. He was originally my sister's stalker, and latched onto stalking me because when I was 11yrs old, I didnt know you could hang up on people who were creepy. I'd been taught to be polite to people. Took me awhile to learn how to deal with a stalker. (call police, or ask mall security who had handguns to escort you to your car)

Andre once walked into my house uninvited when I was probably about 14 or 15yrs old. (he's been stalking me for quite awhile) I was watching tv and he just walked in to my house. I didnt know how to get him out, so I kept my very protective and unsocialized poodle that snapped at strangers on my lap until my dad got home. Soon as my dad got home, I told Andre I had to talk to my dad for a second, and left the room, told my dad Andre wouldnt leave and that I never invited him in, he just walked in. My dad went and started talking to Andre, and Andre started to follow my dad thru the house as my dad talked. My dad walked to the front door, opened it for Andre like he was about to go outside while still talking, and when Andre walked thru the door, my dad slammed it and locked it, locking Andre outside. (love my dad!)

My dad was into Judo, and was a volunteer instructor, and I'm sure my dad could have kicked Andre's butt, but, I love how my dad chose the subtle, "your visit is now over" approach. (one of my dad's Judo instructor's lessons was "never get yourself into situations where you have to use your Judo skills to get out of it".)

Good thing Andre is a big guy and extremely recognizable from a distance. I can usually spot him before he sees me, and leave.

He did ambush me at work once when I was in my mid 20s (worked in a McD's) and sat outside in his car waiting for me once for two hours because I refused to wait on him. (none of the other people I worked with him would wait on him either. Kind of ticked him off when my manager kicked him out) My dad to the rescue again. My dad came down with a friend of mine to drive me home, my friend drove my car home.

One good thing about the MS, is that I dont go to Star Trek/comic book conventions anymore. (he might not either now, saw him get kicked out of more than one convention for being a creepy jerk. He might have been banned) Less chance of running into Andre now. Now I think I would just smack him in the knees with my cane and then try to hobble away quickly if I saw him.