Reminder

[CGTMHI]

Dear Friends,

We've tried for a week or more to gently remind everyone that we have rules that we will enforce, if we have to.  We HATE having to do this all the time and we really hate having to constantly remove inappropriate messages that are insulting or demeaning to others.  

Our forums are great because of the people who visit and share their information and support.  Our forums are NOT great when people bicker and post derrogatory remarks about others or drag fights from other websites over to Med Help's website, leaving the vast majority of our visitors clueless as to what is going on.

We will enforce our rules in order to insure the quality of our forum because we owe that to the millions of people who visit this forum each year.  Please remember that while only a few people are regular posters, there are millions who are readers!

Cindy Thompson
Med Help International

[moveabove]

7 hrs of stringing lights on the tree. WHY ?
  Isnt life funny ?  There is something I will never do and thats get one of those big things that go in the front yard that look like one of those snow globes.   Only because I'm single and my kids cant convince me.  I am still king.

[sfbaygirl]

Tried to put lights up today too. They are such a mangled mess, they work until you put them up and then go out. We have decided to throw the bunch out and start over. I am beginning to realize how valuable my time was before being ill. So many debacles lately letting my husband "handle" things. I should make a cartoon about how crazy some of the stuff is. John tried to help by putting the 20 bags of wood stove pellets away. I came downstairs and look in the living room and there is a folding long table in front of the window outside with stacks of bags on top. The legs were bending from the weight and my beautiful view of the valley and oak trees was now blocked and I was looking at these big bags of pellets. They were moved into a garden shed, but all the stuff from the shed was strewn out all over the deck. I said we don't live in a ghetto! So they were once again moved...I'm afraid to look again. Of course this was after buying a pallet of pellets and me telling them to take most of them back, this is what was kept....and the saga continues...

[beamishboy]

if you are out of lites-shorten the tree with a little chainsaw pruning: "Ho,Ho,Ho-Timber!!"....and a seasoned greeting to ALL

[Myown]

I'm not talking about someone 'rounding people up' to email Cindy. I'm talking about hitting the abuse button and pointing them to the abusive post.

This way there the posse doesn't lynch him, let the cowboy hang himself.

[cuteus]

sometimes the person is both witty and snippy, smart and antagonistic, "good and bad", and if we skip all of his/her posts, we might miss on a really clever comment, a show of wit as well as a good piece of 'advise'.  I, for one would hate for anyone to change drastically because what makes that person hard to take somedays might be the same wit that makes them charming another day.  and if the change is too dramatic, the charm might be gone.  restrain when excessive might be better.  I hate to see someone change altogether if it means the charm and wit is also gone.
There has to be a medium.   I skip posts of folks that are overtly religious, but in doing so, I might be skipping some wisdom also.  Noone here is always"bad", not a100%. Example of this in NJRSL, I now find him charming, some don't but he does not go over to the extreme, so it is bearable.
We can't be tiptoing for the sake of newbies all the time, after all we are common day folks with common days behaviors, just not an excess.  Who is to judge what is excessive?  got me there. everything is subjective. my level of tolerance seems higher than others, so whose level do we use?  I guess Cindy and Phil's?

[moveabove]

When I got here There was alot of arguing abd there was info or more importent, experience.  What I saw was real people.
I need more lights