Originally posted by joerell
On the other hand people who have great lives don't need to hear how cowardly addicts are destroying their lives and society.
Then don't come to the place where these addicts congregate and have built a small niche community. And cowardly? Where do you get that from? I can tell you first hand §m£ÂgØL is one of the most cowardly people one could meet irl. Being a user doesn't make one cowardly.
Originally posted by -SpectraL
It's my opinion that users who come on the BBS to publish their personal information and personal lives and basically beg for sympathy should be banned. The BBS isn't some personal diary, and no one should really give two warm shits about the problems you are going through. Attention-whoring has nothing to do with knowledge is power. Nobody cares that you want to kill yourself. Nobody cares that your life is a mess. Nobody cares you need a helpin' hand. The "poor me" angle is a farce, and should be banned outright.
Surely, you're right that this isn't some personal diary, but the stories that get shared are what's being contributed. You might not like my story of being in the hospital, all my surgeries, and this addventure of being in the most ghetto nursing home in the world, BUT it's a contribution, where I've left information about the whole thing such as my experience with certain drugs, allergic reactions, causes of those reactions, and alternative drugs they gave me. I left my story of what happened to me, how I was coping. Same goes with others who share their adventures, trails, and tribulations, to someone else they maybe interesting, enligtening, helpful, and/or share information they have sought out, which could be mundane, or something they couldn't find elsewhere.
This is a community too, and when you have a small, close-knit community such as this one, you're going to have people share personal things, and come together. Shit, there's been many people who've helped others, and returned the favor to others. I was helped when I needed it (and I didn't even ask for the help, just mentioned my hardship, and when I was able I paid back the help I was given), and I helped others when I was in a better place to do so. That's what makes places like this so special is that we all know each other, and open up about our lives, and what's going on in our lives. Just because someone posts about a bad thing happening to them doesn't mean they're trying to get sympathy, or begging for something, sometimes it just means they're reaching out to the community for support or advice in how to cope/deal with that hardship.
And another thing: Malice was a huge part of this community. He contributed all sorts of shit, and at this very moment I wish he were here so I could ask him a question about something since he's probably the only one who could answer it here. Malice contributing personal trials and tribulations is a contribution of autism, of the suffering of mentalillness, the negative effects of social isolation.
I thought you were for freedom of speech... oh, guess it's just speech you like. Glad Lanny is good with freedom of speech as long as it's not spamming.