[(JD)]

I just find it very difficult to accept how some members trash PC in their FREE blog from PC! I guess it's chalked up to freedom of speech? But I really don't get it, not this way.

I would sure like to see more positive stuff about PC if mentioned at all.

[SeptemberMorn]

I guess some people are thankless or don't appreciate a good thing when they see one.

I'll be back with a saying Jerry has about the freedom of speech. It says it all as far as I'm concerned, but I can't remember it exactly right now.

[Fuzzybear]

[DocJohn]

I would only say to a comment like this that people are free to speak their mind even if it's not always "nice things" to say, especially about our work here or the community. I don't mind, we can take the good as well as the bad.

I prefer, however, for numerous reasons that people send me their issues or problems with the community privately so we can try and work them out one-on-one with the individual.

As for people using Psych Central's resources to criticize us, it comes with the territory. The day I can't take some criticism online is the day I get out of this business!

DocJohn

cool response :-)

way cool.............

[sabby]

Way to go Doc John! Exactly as it should be.

Luckily enough, we can choose what to read and what not to read. Unfortunately, there are those out there who will never be happy or satisfied with anything...Not too much we can do about that but try our best.

[Calm]

Hi DocJohn,

Amen! Speaking only for myself, I think it's super that there are websites such as this on the internet. Mental health, for too long, has taken the back seat in comparison to other health issues. I feel fortunate that there are those who go the extra mile to offer sites like this and provide helpful information and support to the many who seek it.

Calm

[(JD)]

Oh yes, I'm sure of all that... but just posting how it really does make me wonder.

[Peanut61]

Hi Sky:

As someone else mentioned, I like that we can each choose what we want or don't want to read.

Heck, I didn't even know you guys had blogs .

Peanut

[(JD)]

Hi peanuts!

No, that isn't my point at all... and the thread has gone a few side tracks along the way, but ok...

There are free blogs here at PC, for members.

FREE.

I just think it's like biting the hand that feeds you to complain and put down PC and it's members or administration in the free blog. You know what I mean?

There are plenty of reasons someone might do so... and sure it will happen, and no I don't have to read blogs... but none of that is my point.

TC!

[Raynaadi]

There's plenty of little digs everywhere. Here on the boards, in the blogs. People are human and have human emotions and it spills out. Frustration is normal. We can't all always be completely responsible in our postings and blogs. That is the beauty of living in an imperfect world. I tend to try and let digs and comments slide. I try to remember that everyone has a bad day, and that anything can affect anyone. For me, it's about thinking before I post. And if I don't like what I read, I don't read it.

[Bethsway]

Great answer DocJohn

[radio_flyer]

......wow .. cool what the Doc wrote....

[(JD)]

OK. Maybe it's time to end this thread.

Perhaps all I wanted to do is help members who blog to be careful about what they blog?? I don't know if that's possible, now that I read responses...

Blogs are not private. Someone who knows nothing about us here, nothing about the site, nothing about DocJohn can read an offhanded comment and get the wrong impression.

I just wondered if they actually thought about the consequences or not, and how the opportunity to say those things are given to them freely here.

------------E N D of T H R E A D -----------thanks to all who responded!

I understand that you are concerned because you care about the site.

(((Sky)))

When somebody says something bad about something / someone...
It tells you more about the person who is saying it than anything else.

Hang in there.

[spiritual_emergency]

I blog about my online experiences, including my experiences with communities and individuals within the blogosphere. Recently, I blogged about this site: Reference: Bias and Stigma Within the Mental Health Community?.

Doc John and the community here fared pretty well, all things considered. (And yes, I did send a private e-mail to Doc John regarding that experience.)

it's called live and let live........

[spiritual_emergency]

Or maybe it's called....

Well-behaved women seldom make history -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

[spiritual_emergency]

[* insert kindly snicker *]

"Kindly" referring to that which laughs with as opposed to that which laughs against.

[SeptemberMorn]

FYI - SE:

Use of Intellectual Property

All users, visitors and members who access this forum agree not to copy and paste, quote, print-out, distribute, or otherwise use a member's postings or other contributions to the community on another website, blog, or service (including Psych Central's free user blogs) without first obtaining the expressed written consent and permission of the author to do so via a PM or email.

You do not have permission to mention me by name or screen name or to quote me in any way. But then, I'm not a doctor, a student doctor nor a schizophrenic.

[spiritual_emergency]

Thanks for that reminder September Morn.

Naturally, different communities have different standards. For instance, I recently replicated the thread Presumed Causes of Schizophrenia on my personal blog and was terrible tempted to borrow on the words of Meta who had stated so succintly, "It's no wonder our heads are spinning.". I didn't however, and wouldn't, because this community's expectations are explicitly stated and I had not personally asked Meta for his/her consent.

Standards differ among online communities and it is almost inevitable that you will encounter others who will insist that you shut up (for any reason) in order to protect them. It's difficult to know what the ethics of rules are in some instances.

*shrug*

I've come to accept that it's just part of the human experience.

[PasDeDeux]

I think everyone has a right to how they feel. I find what might be the "wrong impression" by some just isn't the experience of all people. I liked what you said Dr John ...and Sky I respect that you wish only good things be said about this site..

A side bar here...I think posting private PM's are against those same rules Sept..I like the rule.

[spiritual_emergency]

PasDeDeux: I think everyone has a right to how they feel. I find what might be the "wrong impression" by some just isn't the experience of all people. I liked what you said Dr John ...and Sky I respect that you wish only good things be said about this site..

I think it's only fair to acknowledge that my experience of something might not be the equivalent of your experience of something. For better or worse, my experience of the 'studentdoctor.forums" was not a positive experience and the echo of that experience now reverberates across the blogosphere. Likewise, my experience of "psychcentral" has been far more positive and that experience too, has a rippling effect that may not be consistent with all participants.

I am perfectly fine with others having a positive experience of the studentdoctor.forums and a negative experience of psychecentral. My experience is mine; their experience is theirs. Apparently, Doc John is quite capable of handling such dichotomies too.