This board is a mess, too much spam, not enough room to breath

[willows]

This will get me in much trouble, but this board has become unusable for me anyway, so I think a bit of truth as I see it is a good parting gift.

We have been flooded with spammers, it is a common tactic on any message board and especially effective on this board because if we try to question a post, we get rebuked for being unkind to a "newbie". Now there are some newbies here and I still recognize the old timers, but mixed in with them, are so many folks, masquerading as Hep C sufferers and spamming our board.

I wouldn't even venture a guess as to whether it is Vertex, wanting to stop the sharing of info or to folks in the investment community, wanting to stop the sharing of info, but it is still a fact that THIS BOARD IS UNREADABLE, and full of new people and posts that are sometimes ridiculous, they waste our time and then they are gone.

Man, I love jmjm for his "librarian" take and I love "bug" cuz I know she's gotta be that cute, and I admire nygirl for her warrior soul. Kalio, Grand oak, Forseegood, you all know who you are, you all are the greatest. But I hate spam, I'm not Hawaiian and we cannot have a conversation here without being dumped on, too much to sort out and too much stimuli. That is the way spammers work. I am so sad, beyond anything I could put in words, that all this has happened to us.

I am old, but not resistant to change, I will find another place to post. I have to give a bittersweet salute to whomever decided to trash this place, but that is what it is like now, a beautiful place, all littered up by fools, ruining it for the people who need it most. What a ****** up way to make a living.

Willow

[mikesimon]

I speak for the same people you are pretentious enough to say you're warning.
Abusive? I find you abusive but I don't constantly warn people about you.
What's in my pocket? That might constitute sexual abuse coming from you.
You really don't want to rehash the whole thing yet again? Aren't you concerned with the woman's sensibilities? You probably would bring up that thread again to further what you think is your image and to engage in your vindictiveness.
How's the restructuring coming? I saw you post exactly what I told you about URQ pain when someone asked about it but you never admitted you were totally wrong with your silly restructuring theory. LOL
You're trite.
Mike

[blondie51]

Was reading  about bad spellers and people not  comeing on here once  they asked  a question. i happen to be one of them.I am  knew to all this  and i have been doing research  on hip c  my husband  has it,not me i am scared for   him and   the test are takeing quit  awhile so not  on much  with  questions, but  i do read whats on here and it  does help. Some people are not  regulars on here that  talk but  i for one do read  whats being  said. sorry   you feel that way about  people. shouldn't matter about  spelling  this is not  what this forum is all about it's about helping people. take care    carol

[Lonestar823]

Esprit,

What a lovely and thoughtful post you made to me.  You are fortunate, indeed to be here.  Though I found the site very late in my treatment, I don't know if I could have finished without it.  It's not that I talked with many, it was the reading I think.  I had felt so alone and alienated and then to walk into a world full of people who recognized me because they were wounded the same as I was somehow kept me sane.  I don't know your particulars because I haven't been on the site in many months.  I do know that you must be a very brave soul to already be contemplating extended treatment.  There's a poem I first read as a teenager.  It has stayed with me throughout my life.  I had copied it onto paper and read it to myself so many times during my treatment that the paper was falling apart at the end.  Maybe it will help you too.  It goes like this:

Invictus
William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Peace, Strength and Love to you Esprit.

LoneStar

[Lonestar823]

I'm thinking you need a video too. Black & White. Rev's seated at his ancient mahogany desk inside an old world library. He's dressed in a black tuxedo, white tie, horned rimmed glasses. He closes up a dusty old leather bound medical journal, gracefully stands and sings Marvin Gayes, "What's Going On" He sings it beautifully too. Okay, sign me up, or beam me up. Which ever. ; ]  

[EspritLibre1]

I'm reasonably new here and just plopped in here on my ninth wk (do 12 on Fri), but coming in wanted to stop because I had cleared at 4 and a half wks and couldn't understand why I couldn't stop... and doc didn't explain it to my satisfaction.. well I did learn why here. (Thanks to a nice member that actually saw my post and listened and took the time to explain it the best she could.) now approaching/contemplating idea of going on past a year... 'cause I want it to work.  It is brave people like you in tx for so many wks (yrs)... I stop by before work and after and too much to read, so have picked out some members that I know to be helpful and focus on that... and I saw the 'to' and 'from' in your post and read... because I always read that member's comments.. I admitted that one time, and about got choked (or at least felt some one's arm reach out of my screen..ha ha!) but understood no member has the right to control that... and no on has a higher status here... whether people like it or not it is what it is, and quite frankly I'm quite comfortable with that set up.  Controlling ourselves is enough, attempting to control others only make us the fool... During my short time here, like I said, it is limited and limited to certain subjects that catch my eye and specific posters... we have to take what we can with our limited time. Sure glad you came by and nice to see that some people actually get on with their life and has a life because they choose to... you be well...

[EspritLibre1]

I like that... and hadn't seen it for some time ... I'm printing it as we speak.. and like you will keep it close by... thanks for caring... and hope you continue to feel better and better... Libby