Yep, I was banned from Healthboards last month. Apparently for inappropriate posts. All I did was want to get in contact with a 14 year old guy with CP, well it seems like that was forbidden and before I knew it I was banned. I only had like 20 posts, must be a record.

I really wanted to meet this guy.

Hi CPChick ~

Check this thread out in regards to HB. http://forums.braintalk2.org/showthread.php?t=1532


Shirl

I was banned from there too, about a year and a half ago. Such a shame that board is so restrictive. There are a ton of adults with CP who post on that board-- way more than who post(ed) on BT. I'm surprised more HB posters didn't find their way over to BT.

and just for the record if any moderater from HealthBoards ever sees this: I HATE YOUR BOARD AND FEEL THAT YOU DO A DISSERVICE TO PEOPLE WHO POST THERE BY BEING SO UTTERLY AND NEEDLESSLY RESTRICTIVE. I HOPE YOUR SERVER CRASHES TOO AND SOMEONE ELSE STARTS UP A HEALTHBOARDS2 WITHOUT THE STUPID RESTRICTIONS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER.

There... thanks for indulging me. I feel so much better now

Hey I was banned from there to. My reason for getting kicked off was because I tried to start a poll. It was against the rules I guess!

WELCOME TO STEPFORD!!!


Mark

I was banned twice from there!
just for posting helpful links for people.

How they expect someone with repetitive strain injuries to type out long posts explaining things is beyond me.

Ditto. The moderator there made out like i was a war criminal for doing it!

Personally i think they are

Same here.

I'm Tham, 48, from Malaysia. I found your board
after doing a search on Google with the keywords
"healthboards, banned and Gestapo" !
They suspended two days me ago. After doing some
research on Medline to help a female poster in their
"Heart Diseases" subforum who had the difficult and
complex heart condition ARVD (Arrhythmogenic Right
Ventricular Dysplasia, which I knew nothing off before
reading her post ), I had made a very long post the night
before suggesting supplements, backed with studies from
Medline, which I had to reproduce in full since they did not
allow any kind of links to be posted.

The next day, when I tried to log in, there was a message that
my account had been suspended with the note "... posting
materials by other users" and asking me to get in touch
with their mods. My post had also beem removed.

I wrote in, giving them a piece of my mind. The transcript of
my mail and their reply is reproduced below. Within moments
yesterday, I was banned, and several moments later, my IP
was .... blocked. I further replied to this, telling them that a
quick check on the net
appears to reveal that their forum moderators have a reputation
of Nazi Gestapo or SS concentration camp officers, to which
they did not respond, but I forgot to save a draft of this mail.


From: "HB Admin" <headmod@yahoo.com>
To: Tham Wai Keong <tham@linuxmail.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: Account Suspension and Removal of Post
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:28:08 -0800 (PST)

Hello,
The purpose of a forum is the choice of the owner.

Your derogatory assessment of this website is
incorrect and inappropriate. Please do use those other
websites more to your preference.

admin





--- Tham Wai Keong <tham@linuxmail.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Why was my account under the username "Waikeong"
> suspended
> and my recent post under "Got Bad News" removed ?
>
> I did not post material by others, merely reproduced
> Medline
> studies, since your forum does not allow links,
> which virtually
> all other professional forums which I have been to
> allowed,
> and even advocates as long as they are not spam or
> porn,
> which is after all the purpose of the Internet - to
> disseminate
> useful information, including medical studies, for
> the good of
> all other users ? Without such links, what is the
> purpose
> of an internet forum anyway ?
>
> As an example, look at the forums of the Immortality
> Institute
> (Imminst.org) and Life Extension Foundation. Even
> this
> internet security forum, Wilders Security
> (wildersecurity.com)
> a highly professional and respected forum, allowed
> my entire
> and totally offtopic post about the benefits of
> vitamins in slowing down aging, which included Medline links as
> an example of the benefits of tocopherol succinate inducing
> apoptosis of breast, prostate and colon cancer cell lines, when I was
> replying to one user's
> questions as to the purpose of ordering vitamins
> online - which
> compromised one of my friend's (from Dayton) credit
> card details
> and was the original subject of my thread !
>
>
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...9&postcount=18
>
>
> Or is it, as I suspected, that this "peer-review
> board" (controlled
> by the AMA ?) is biased against information on
> vitamins against
> diseases and aging, considers the value of
> cutting-edge
> supplements in life extension worthless,
> intentionally bans the
> advocacy of alternative medicine such as homeopathy
> - and does not want the public to have access to such info ?
>
> If this is the case, I would not want to accept such
> a policy and
> will take part in other more ethical and open
> boards, such as those of the Immortality Institute, in future.
Thank you.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tham
>
>
> -- _______________________________________________
>
>
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_

I was banned yesterday. Are they for real???? Get a chuckle from this.....

When I logged in after posting the night before to someone who suffers from something similar to me, I received a message from Healthboards that my account was suspended because I posted my email address. So, I emailed the administrator the following:

Subject: please reinstate
Date: 2/4/2007 5:27:39 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: XXXXXX (deleted by me b/c I tried to resubscribe to repost my messagge)
Reply To:
To: adminmod@healthboards.com
CC:
BCC:
Sent on:

I was unaware of the rule of not posting my email address.

I am 4 days post op tendon transfer and am desperate for information.

Their response was:

Subject: Re: please reinstate
Date: 2/5/2007 5:05:37 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: headmod@yahoo.com
Reply To:
To: xxxxxxxxxx
CC:
BCC:
Sent on:

Please always send your exact registered username(s)
and the registered email address(es), along with your
questions when you email admin or a moderator. Thanks.

I emailed them my username and sent the email from the address I signed up with. They replied with the following:

Subject: Re: please reinstate
Date: 2/5/2007 9:15:39 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: headmod@yahoo.com
Reply To:
To: xxxxxxxxxx
CC:
BCC:
Sent on:

You need to address the reason you lost posting
privileges.


My reply was:

Subject: Re: please reinstate
Date: 2/5/2007 10:18:38 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: xxxxxxxxx
Reply To:
To: headmod@yahoo.com

Forget it. Your board isnt worth my time or energy. You simply are being ridiculous and petty. It's a message board, not an application to be the President! What are you, the CIA or Secret Service ? Do you wnt my SS#?

You emailed me stating why I lost privileges (you allege I posted my email). Why do I need to repeat myself?

I am flat on my back, cannot walk and am in pain like you cannot imagine. I need help desperately about my recent surgery and you make it impossible for people who need help to get help from others in a similar position.

You should be embarrassed.

Hi,
I am new here and this is my first post. I too was one of the "victims" of a banning at the site healthboards.com. I have absolutely no idea why either. As far as I know, I did not post anything which violated any of their seemingly hundreds of rules! Well, maybe not that many, but jeez. I am a nail tech by trade, and I did make a post which referred to the word "eponychium", which is a medical term that describes what is essentially the fold of skin on the proximal end of your fingernail. Its what most people refer to as your cuticle. Now get this. WHen I previewed the post, the word have been modified with the use of astericks, so now it appeared as "epony****m" I made a comment at the end of my post stating what I had just found and that I could not figure out for the life of me why that was happening. Then I submitted the post. Maybe for some screwy reason, their Nazi-like automated censoring software or whatever its called didn't like my word, or more specifically, part of it. Go figure, the only parts that were astericked out were "chiu". Now, I am seriously baffled. I never was good at word games, so maybe one of you can help this clueless girl out a bit:-) WHat curse, or otherwise "bad" word contains the letters "chiu"??? I can not think of anything, but that really does not surprise me! Then I posted a message on, I don't know which one, but a forum where registration problems are dealt with and the mods deal with answering them - if you call it that - and posed the same question to them, why? This is a standard medical term which can be found in any medical dictionary in publication, and its the proper term in describing that particular portion of the fingernail. I'm sooo baffled. I won't drag this on much longer, I promise (need to vent because it just happened to me less than 6 hours or so ago!), but I'm guessing that is the reason why I was banned. I did not find out until the next time I tried to login and got a message that only stated "your account has been suspended. Reason: Inappropriate posts" or something like that. I'm paraphrasing it. It said I could appeal it, so I immediately did. And I have to admit that I was a bit ticked off at the time, so I really doubt that I will be let back on the board considering the content of my reply, err, appeal, to their suspending me. I really gave them a piece of mind. Seriously, I did. I was NOT nice about it in the least bit. I didn't threaten, as they do, I just laid the facts out, and threw in a bit of personal opinion as well. They probably won't like the fact that I wasn't courteous to them. If you have ever seen it on their site, it specifies that when communicating with them, you must do so "respectfully", but its OK if they talk to people like they are trash. I have not heard back from them, and may not ever hear from them, but I won't be crying over it. The whole thing of banning for reasons unknown is just absurd. And to think that you can appeal the ban - read: kiss their butt and beg for forgiveness - is just outrageous, IMHO.
OK, nuff said about that. I rambled long enough! I just needed to vent and I feel better already! Thanks for listening. I hope I don't get banned from this site! That is the very first time it has ever happened to me and I am still stunned. I'll get over it by later today though. They are NOT that big of a deal. Total Nazi's though. As I called them in my "appeal", control freaks, and more I must admit. But I hope to become active here soon. BTW, I had only like 10 posts, and I looked, and they had deleted every single one of them! Not the allagedly "Inappropriate" one(s), but ALL of them. How sad. I picture it as them being made to feel almighty in their position of moderator, but its only on there, and outside of it, it doesn't mean a thing. Maybe they are just basically the type of insecure people who, given something like a moderator position at some junky site like theirs, can feel better about themselves, or something like that.
Thanks for listening.
Talk to ya soon :-)

well...give us a try rach.

i'm sorry you got treated that way on another board, but i'm glad you found us. welcome.