We are one big community here -- not 20 sub-groups of people all divided up by our disorder or diagnosis. Putting in individual social chat groups in each disorder forum kind of defeats the purpose of gathering us all together in one place in the first place.

I'm disappointed that you got only one rude response in social chat to your thread (you should always use the report icon on such a post to report it to the moderators to see if it violates the guidelines and have it removed). But that doesn't mean it's a reason to ignore the guidelines and our efforts to keep the forums somewhat organized. Sure, I understand that some people like reading only one or two forums, but if we allowed any topic under any forum, then what's the point of having any individual forums to begin with? We could just have one forum and call it a day.

To that end, the community team here is tasked with helping keep topics in each forum appropriate to that forum's focus, and in upholding the guidelines. Unless someone asks us permission beforehand to do something that might violate the guidelines, we have no way of reading into people's intent of why they posted off-topic in the wrong forum or what-not.

And last, technically this thread is against the guidelines, because it's a discussion of administrative actions. As per the guidelines, we ask you bring such concerns to a community team member or myself directly and privately. The reasoning for this is because we could spend an awful lot of time explaining our actions here rather than actually working on the site or helping others with their concerns. We would just like to focus what limited volunteer time we have here.

I've allowed it to remain to help explain why threads sometimes get moved to a different forum, so in the future, others may read and understand our rationale better.

Thank you,
DocJohn