Oh my sorry flippnout it is me Lilly but I can see what you are saying my pastor and neigbors told me not to respond to people on the computer too, they said you never know who your talking to. I will just listen to you all and chime in every once in a while. I do love reading and learning from you all I cannot understand alot of the medical things but I try to read it, and I give my support to you all in our fight with this RSD.
You all are so bright and know so much I will keep on reading, thank you all. lilly

Lilly, that's not right, hon! This is what I was afraid was going to happen! That new people were going to be scared and stop posting!

I believe your pastor and friends were talking about instant messages and such. Trust me sweetie, there is no viable reason to suspect anyone here of being a "spy!" If there were, the evidence would have been turned over and the spy would have been banished already!

Nobody wants you to be afraid of posting, sweetie! You need support, and you need to be able to talk to people. Don't be afraid to! TALK, open up to us. Don't just sit back and read. You need to be able to talk, too! Just don't give out your full name, address, phone number, social security number, etc. No personal info like that, and you'll be fine. Nobody here is going to do anything to you hon.

This is what overactive imaginations do. They make people who NEED SUPPORT stop posting...and that's not what we're all about. We're about SUPPORT.

Lilly, based on your past posts, that's exactly what you need is SUPPORT. And that's why we are here. So please...pay no attention to that comment, and just practice the common online safety rules, and everything will be just fine hon. K? Now...what is going on with you sweetie?

just wanted have this part mentioned again-
going back and reading the posts by a member is a good way to tell if you suspect anything.
Generally a troll or spy will not stay long on any forum they will do the "post and run" and not really offer any real info, help or caring.

I hope we can get past any of these issues soon.

And also just to add - if you see a post that is unquestionably a spammer or a troll - could be an obvious advert or something like that -
just hit that small icon of an exclamation point in a red and white triangle in the left corner bottom of their post.
This immediately alerts the mods who can remove it almost instantly. So far we've been lucky....got a great bunch of people here, but it could happen.

all the best!

If someone suspects that another is misusing their account, please contact an administrator so that it can be looked into.

In the meantime, threads of this nature can do more harm than good in several areas.

You can contact an administrator, or moderator, in several ways...PM, email, or reporting a post as artist explained then adding your concerns as a comment.

I agree that there are always things to keep in mind with internet safety.

From here I'm going to close this thread.

Again, if you have concerns regarding a member, please contact a moderator or administrator.

We value you, our members, and want to be sure to protect you at all times as well as preserve the peace of your forum.


KD