The lost of some members , a reason for concern............

[Mister beagle bailey]

Just read the post by 52tele about not returning to the forum.  Since the thread was maxed out, I decided to start this one instead of taking away from someone else's thread.

Tele I'm sorry you won't be posting anymore and wish you will still return here when you need too.
I do agree that there are some here that seems to attack others, or post things that offend others.  Who knows why some members do this, maybe riba rage, maybe feeling ill or maybe it's just their personality.  
However, this forum has been a life saver for me and others, as I'm 4 weeks post tx I'm not on as much as I use to be but I'm still here to try and help those who need it, like I did.
Some times we all need to ignore those that post things we don't agree with or dislike and try to understand where it's coming from.  Some just want to hurt some here and others just want to get a rise out of us.

I just hope that we don't lose any more members because of this.  This forum has helped many and needs to continue to do so.

May the stronge continue to carry the weak through this ride of a life time called tx..........May God speed and show use away to over come this.

Beagle :)

[way]

There was some name calling on a thread below by someone nicknamed "coast". I think it was really "spacecoast" who was rude the first time I posted. The name of the thread is "Explanation" and it continued to another thread above that one but breifly. It was getting pretty ugly and now maybe hes been kicked off again.

[timedog]

I live in the north east and have a pretty big yard. I love growing flowers and vegatables mostly tomatoes really. Where I live there are a lot deer who seems like everything, well almost, I grow. Every winter I go on line and do research on how to stop the deer, there is so much advice everything from building a fence to keep them out to pouring coyote urine around the gardens.

Every sping with much hope I go out into my gardens and dig in the soil turn it over add mulch and what ever, yes even in this year of treatment I still work and dig, took me a lot longer but it got done. After the garden is dug I plant and then apply something I learned on the web about how to keep deer away and then I sit back and with much attesipation I watch my garden grow, at least when i am not weeding.

Every year no matter what i do, what precations I take whom evers advice I follow the deer return and as always take what they want.  I never get to see all of my flowers go to full bloom. But some how there is always just enough to sooth my heart to put a smile on my face.

If all goes as plan I will be at it again next year trying some new trick someone metioned hanging irish spring soap around.

time dog week 19 starts tonight

[fishdoc]

Hey B, I agree with you completely.  I must say, I came very close to dropping out because of the same offensive individual, but in the terms of today, that is enabling: enabling them to control others, so I choose to not engage, ignore, walk off.  However, tele52s post had two MAJOR components, both of which we are all familiar with.  Perhaps the most important was the feeling that he was becoming obsessive.  When I was diagnosed in 94, I started grad school in 95, and found I was spending hours and hours on line focusing on my disease.  I had to choose to put down the mouse, and focus on the tasks at hand, rather than obsessing about my condition.  Now however, as I am tx, I don't view it as obsessive, but a support mechanism.  I don't want to talk to anyone and tell them one more time, yup, I still feel like sh!t, why do you ask?  Here, those that are tx know I feel like sh!t, but we focus on other things a lot, like laughter.  The objectionale individuals, I choose to ignore.  I posted a very teeny tiny joke last week, and a newbie "felt it necessary" to tell me that jokes were not appropriate.  I ignored it, which I deserve a medal for, because for some reason, ribarage really kicked in, and I dearly wanted to berate, belittle, castigate, denigrate.... its a long alphabet..!!  But walked off instead.  IF we all NEVER resonded to jerks, perhaps they'de jerk off somewhere else.........personally, I think the one I am thinking of is a teen that comes on line every now and then to stir up trouble, doesn't have a disease other than angst, and probably visits a lot of sites doing the same thing..

[SnoWav]

I would like to think that those that clear the virus will be too busy living life to hang around here.Leave the board to those that are treating and the non responders and relapsers.They will be the ones doing the research and staying on the cutting edge of the latest news from the front on the war on hep C. Any member that leaves this board never to return more power too ya.Hope I am one of those some day.Later

[Mister beagle bailey]

That's how I feel and you said it "we can do it together".  That it, team work is the key to this forum working for all.

Beagle

[Stvski80085]

I'm not going anywhere I know that much.  I hope no one else does either.  I know must of us here just want some friendly ears to listen to our problems and we feed off the success stories we here almost every week on this board.  I wish everyone the best of luck with this treatment.  It is hard but we can do this together.

Take care,

Steve