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Default May 08, 2015 at 07:22 PM
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To begin, I do not quite know how to post an original thread, so I am using this reply window from last post.

1) A post that really bothered me stated (paraphrase) ".Everyone in the Emotional Support room were losers. If their problems as so bad, they should be in a mental hospital, not on this site. I am not going to be someone's free therapist and waste my energy."

2)I believe the ignore option should be a two way street. It is unfair, in my opinion, that when I place someone on ignore, that person can still read my posts and secretly, without my knowledge, continue to turn personal information about me into fodder for their own amusement, with the help of others (few, granted) to just joke about. I believe that to be just cruelty for cruelty's sake. Laughing about some ones personal struggles is mean. But no chat host has ever intervened in my experience. Making a complaint to a moderator is often useless and causes retaliation by the person you report. I feel afraid from how this site is set up.
when you find posts like this all you need to do is click on the report post icon (looks like a little triangle to the left of the post) then a page opens up where you can write the reason why you are reporting the post. then the you click on send report. it will be seen by a moderator who will check the post to see if it violates the rules and whether it needs to be deleted or edited to bring it in line with the rules.

the ignore option isnt meant to punish or prevent others from using the site. think of it this way...maybe someone comes on having a bad day and in one of your posts one word (lets for hypothetical reasons say its the word believe or your user name) triggers them so they place ...you... on ignore. would you want to be prevented from reading any posts just because someone else gets triggered by the fact that you use a word that triggers them or the username you chose triggers someone else, in essence it would be like punishing you for using the word believe or punishing you because of what your name is...see what I mean the ignore option is to protect the person being triggered and not prevent others from having full use of the site.

if you are concerned about any posts that are too personal /contains too much personal information you can contact a moderator and they can edit or remove the posts for you. for me anytime I have anything personal I dont want others on the internet to see, I do not post it. I write it on my journal or I private message/ or email those I want to know about that personal information. that way whats too personal for the whole world to see isnt placed on non private boards like psych central. where anyone in the whole world can read it, member or not.
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Default May 09, 2015 at 03:09 PM
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I wonder why this person who thought chat room is full of losers was even on there? You go to a chat, look at what's going on and if you don't like it you leave. I've been to chats that I disliked but it only takes like 5 minutes to figure it out! Why stay on chats that you think are full of losers?

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Default May 09, 2015 at 03:24 PM
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To begin, I do not quite know how to post an original thread, so I am using this reply window from last post.

1) A post that really bothered me stated (paraphrase) ".Everyone in the Emotional Support room were losers. If their problems as so bad, they should be in a mental hospital, not on this site. I am not going to be someone's free therapist and waste my energy."

2)I believe the ignore option should be a two way street. It is unfair, in my opinion, that when I place someone on ignore, that person can still read my posts and secretly, without my knowledge, continue to turn personal information about me into fodder for their own amusement, with the help of others (few, granted) to just joke about. I believe that to be just cruelty for cruelty's sake. Laughing about some ones personal struggles is mean. But no chat host has ever intervened in my experience. Making a complaint to a moderator is often useless and causes retaliation by the person you report. I feel afraid from how this site is set up.
Are you talking about the chat rooms or the forum? I don't know how chat is set up. I don't go there. I am sorry you have had these experiences. It doesn't sound safe at all.
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Default May 09, 2015 at 07:41 PM
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Are you talking about the chat rooms or the forum? I don't know how chat is set up. I don't go there. I am sorry you have had these experiences. It doesn't sound safe at all.

There is emotional support chat room. I believe that's what it is about. Just regular chat but more often it is used by members who need support at the moment. Every time I went on it I got support. I once was on it all day. It was a very bad day. I haven't met a single loser on it, just folks helping each other. I understood that someone went on chat assumed it is for losers then posted about it in forums? That's awful

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