Everyone is so tied up in Scott's 'lack of professionalism'.

Actually, I think he was very professional a lot of the time too. Certainly the quality of advice was top notch.

One thing about an online community is, unfortunately, that in a situation like this people can be very 'take, take, take'.

I am not going to apologise for holding the view that the advice and direction and information that people received from Scott over the past 7 months or so was given out of generosity of spirit. Yes, that's right, he volunteered here. Maybe he tripped up a few times in his manner of communication. But what stands out to me is that someone made the effort to make themselves available to help who? ... ALL OF YOU.

Yes ...

Everyone here had access to him for information, which normally, you'd have to go to your doc or psyc or whatever to get. He gave up time for chats, he checked the site multiple times per day to be here so people would see him as a real resource. Don't even mention the emotional vampirism that occurred just because he's a psychologist. I don't know the contents of his entire PMs box, but I can assure you that it wasn't always pretty.

Life is all about tradeoffs. You can't have it all ways.

I find there is a real lack of appreciation for what DID go right during Scott's time on this board. It's all about what didn't. And that, my dear people, is the pity of it all.

Lambast me for saying what I just did, feel free - I'm not going to get upset for speaking my views.

I'm happy to receive PMs if people don't want to say their thoughts in this thread.

Seriously. I am disappointed in the overall response here. People raise some valid points, but they also seem to at times be a bit shortsighted about the overarching picture here. It is VERY easy to focus on the negatives in this situation.

I still believe that if someone here received something of value from Scott's time here, and they are moaning and groaning over some lapses of manners, then they should be ashamed.

peace.