Dear Mark: This place has been such a comfort to me. It is more helpful than counseling itself.
We do need the facilitators to check in on us though...Keeping this a safe place.
Right now a spammer with new age propoganda is inundating the entire chat rooms area with his websites and New Age Info.
We are pretty mature in here...but he is rude...and cruel..and only cares about his religous motivations...he mocks pain and our process..he insults us...and has approached almost 55 posts? now. His only interest in other peoples postings is to insult us for being here for help.
Please do something...we need you to facilitate..to enforce some kind of guidelines...There needs to be some kind of posting etiquette...and more importantly facilitators to bounce out spammers who could seriously injure people with serious problems
I'm a brand new member here (one post just now), but I'm also a member of a very large discussion site which deals largly with this problem by using what they named 'The Karma System'. Simply put, if another member makes a post you think is good, you can award them with green karma, or red karma if you think their post is negative/unhelpful etc. Each memeber has their karma points showing as they increase or decrease, under their username in each post they make. The more good karma you are awarded, the more the karma you can award/take away is worth, and if you have a high negative karma, the karma you award/take away is worth less.
Also members are awarded karma for the number of posts they make (this is where my awareness of the system ends).
But it does allow for allot of self regulation. They also have moderators like most sites which perform the usual functions of dealing with disputes or deleting/moving posts and providing notices etc.
Improving this site for therapeutic reasons
Posted - 07/17/2006 : 16:55:33
