The same people that don't like debate, go on and on about cereal and goats. I'm not sure I get any of you. I say that no more of this nonsense goes on anymore. No more OT threads. Only RA. Only medication related stuff. Get rid of the daily chat. Lets turn this site into exactly what MOST want. No more arguing, bickering. No quoting anyone. Once this happens, lets see how few people actually come and visit this site. I totally disagree!! I like this site and what it does need, is some lightness, getting to know you.. yep, I started daily chat and I like it, shrug.. I think we all need a break from the RA stuff.... you can still vent, all you want and people will listen, there is nothing wrong, w/ having some lightness and getting to know each other besides our illnesses..
Sorry Lorster, but I have to disagree with you on this one. RA is LIFE and LIFE is about so much more than RA. We need people who get what we go thru on a daily basis. Why the sudden turn? I'm confused, I guess
Phats I visit this board mainly for the drama. After all these years I've learned that this is not really the best source of serious RA related information. I think this board is well known for it's drama. I think we all enjoy it whether we want to admit it or not.
There was NO ONE on the "cereal and goat" threads that didn't want the liberal blog.
Go back, it was *one* person, who shall remain nameless, that started that crap. And then people like Lynda(hurts) and Blessed had to pipe in and bitch about it.
Wait. Blessed may have actually started that. Or was it Lynda? It was one of those two.
So chilax baby. Chilax.
I stand corrected.
I doubt that there is some right-wing conspiracy going on here. Things just happen sometimes. I've accidentally deleted an entire categorie of topics on another board I help moderate. Of course, all of us moderators were relentlessly accused of a liberal conspiracy for weeks on end by the right-wing conspiracy theorists. Really nasty things were said about the moderators (all anonymous on that particular site) but it really was just a mistake. A huge, boneheaded mistake... but a mistake nonetheless.this may be just a wild guess but the shear length of that thread may have been helping to slow things down so it was deleted. if I recall correctly that thread was like 60 pages Oooooo.....actually, that's a good point buckeye. Hmm. I wonder!
Yeah... Ernest did say something about speeding up the site and search. So a thread that long would slow down the whole board. Well, that is fine if that is the reason it happened, but maybe he should have removed ALL of the long threads....and believe me, there are plenty of them. Maybe there should be a new rule here, threads no longer that one page.Dudette! This thread is already entering into the 4th page LOL!
It really could have been an error, or simply that it was THAT long, it was slowing things down.
Not that we know of. There was that one OT thread that was 25+ pages long. Wonder if that is still on here.
So I'm confused Lorster. Do you really think that everyone that contributed to the cereal and goat conversations were talking crap, or were you just having a temper tantrum because your "controversial" thread is missing? Oh and btw, some people think the liberal agenda is a load of crap. And yet you bla bla bla about it practically non stop. If you really think your personal preferences should be the standard for everyone, may I suggest you go start your own message board??When this subject came up while I was a newbie, I went back and forth on it, not sure how I felt. Now that I'm here awhile, I've learned that it's very important to be able to discuss something other than our diseases. It's too easy to get so absorbed in our illness and an occasional OT thread is helpful in letting us think about something else. Everyone is really good about marking those posts OT so we can just ignore the ones we don't want to read.
I must take exception to this. Are you suggesting non-liberals don't care about this country? That sounds pretty disrespectful to me.
No Jasmine. I'm saying that many threads here turn into the cereal and goat thing. And that seems to be ok. Its like they are a bunch of junior high girls pointing their fingers and giggling at the retarded kid.Actually, didn't YOU sling the first words about the goat and cereal threads? I thought it was YOU that said the nasties.
Then, everything said to you about the Liberal blog, would have simply been in retaliation.
If you don't care about those posts, why bring them up in such an ugly manor?
Lori, I think you hurt. I think you hurt more than you admit to. For a while back there you would post about how your job was killing you. And now you don't. I think you take it out on here. When you get to that point, you let the pain and annoyance of living with RA take over. And when you feel good, you feel good and we hear great stories from you and you chat with us and makes us all laugh.
Am I even close?? It's just a hunch anyway.
And Mona, I don't think it's depression. From Lori's talks about pain pill popping addicts that she's forced to dope up day after day, I think she's not on ANYTHING for pain, but needs to be. I think she holds a grudge against those that abuse the system, and rightfully so. As she goes to work and comes home in pain day after day, while these people use and abuse.
She knows we don't and won't see her as an abuser, but when you look into the eyes of it every day, it's hard to "get away" from it. That I can understand.
I thought about that too Katie...but severe chronic pain does bring on depression a lot of times, for a lot of us here. Not to mention job related stresses, disabilities, financial burdens, inadequate heath care, and on and on. It all ties in with Auti-Immune Disease. When you get one of them it affects so much more than one aspect of your life.I too think that the OT topics help and talks about other medical problems that go with RA are good to talk about as well.
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