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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
There seems to be a developing trend for some members on some forums to create "journal" threads. They are not on specific topics of interest, requests for specific concerns, requests for feedback, questions, or the like. They are just more like "BirdDancer's thread # 6". [Note: I do not have a thread by that name or any other journal thread. That's just as an example.]
I will say that I don't tend to contribute to such "journal threads". Instead, I like my regular forum's "Check-in Thread", which is vibrant and pretty much serves the same purpose as any specific member's "journal thread".
I am only bringing this up, because I fear that if more and more people jump on the "My journal" thread bandwagon, that they will somewhat overwhelm certain groups main forums. If they are threads that people enjoy seeing, I really wish they were separated from a main forums's general thread list. Perhaps as part of a subforums called something like "Member Journals"?????
Just a thought.
I hope this feedback/suggestion doesn't upset anyone. I'm only mentioning it because I see the issue from the perspective of someone who worked in marketing. Existing members may tire of such "journal threads" and any potential new members may see them and be turned off. Yes, right now, there are just a few I've noticed, but people do like jumping on such bandwagons, and then, before you know it, it's out of control. There are also other potential issues I could mention.
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first I want to say not everyone on psych central are in marketing so we don't look at long threads as a marketing, jump on the band wagon thing.
second yes some people post about their journeys with mental illness and sometimes the thread ends up with many pages. but psych central does close long threads once they reach a certain number of pages because of server and website issues behind the scenes that doc john sometimes lets us know about. when a thread is closed by a moderator because it has reached its limit of pages for the site they begin another thread. to new people this may seem like the original thread is still going, most times when you read long threads you discover the topic has evolved and since its still active it continues.
third yes some of us have long threads to some may seem like what other sites call "journey threads" but you need to take into consideration why those threads were started to begin with. for example my integration thread "reads" like a journey thread. but its not a journey thread. the reason behind that thread was because psych central does not have an integration forum for DID. the dissociative forums are the main area, the garden, the teen but theres nothing there for those of us dealing with pre integration, integration and post integration issues. So I made an integration thread, posted what I went through and what I still deal with, what integration is for me and how my treatment providers dealt with it. then others at integration level of healing form DID also posted in that thread. its a running thread where anyone going through integration of their DID alters can talk integration issues with out upsetting those that don't want to discuss integration.
Also here at psych central no one is required to read these long threads. everyone reads only what they want to read, and only those that ......….want to............participate in the long threads do and those who don't like reading long threads and don't like to participate in long threads they don't read or participate in them.