in one of doc johns posts he stated....

Just a reminder, too -- you don't have to be a member to read posts here (except for protected forums, like the Premier Poohbah forum, which is a membership benefit to those who reach certain community milestones or donate to our non-profit organization). Anyone can read anything they want. However, member profiles are restricted to only be accessible to logged-in members.

and then moxie stated further along inviting another member to make a psychotherapy thread in the poombah forum....

now Im not a member of the poohbah forums so I may be wrong here but question... the poohbah isnt protected as in other members not being able to take what they read to other places on the internet correct?

reason I bring this up is because the whole reason for this thread is because a person who was a member here took posts from psych central and quoted it in their website....

I just dont want others to assume just because its password protected that this cant happen there too.

Im guessing at all of this but couldnt members of the poohbah do the same thing (right click copy and paste what they see in the poohbah and take it to other locations outside the internet) and no one is the wiser .....until ....someone from psych central happens onto that website and recognizes the quoted material and discovers the person who did that was or is a member here at psych central...

which means this same situaiton can in fact happen on the poohbah forum where people outside psych cental are viewing poohbah members posts by way of another website of a member who had or has access to poohbah....

am it talking in circles here lol you know what I mean. I dont want to join the poohbah forum thinking it is this all mighty protected forum and then find out that its just like the regular boards where a member or ex member who had access to the poohbah board can do what happened the resulted in this thread and discussion.

Im not saying this to be mean moxie but even if the poohbah board is password protected it may still mean that posts can be taken to other places on the internet and be read by all kind of people we many not want them read by....it might be best to even though a password is needed for the poohbah forums to keep in mind to be careful of what you want to post. if my guessing is right the same thing can happen on the poohbah boards just that in order for it to happen someone has to be logged in. you still may not know who is actually reading your posts. please be careful.