Post by kayo on Jan 6, 2016 17:27:17 GMT -5
Well, that wasn't much fun. Apologies to all who were unable to get on the Forum for the last few days. We've had a few spammers since we got this Forum at ProBoards... not many, but a few.
That's going to stop.
Membership is now by request only. So even if I can't get here for a few days, at least we won't have some idiot violating the TOS, which is what happened last week. ProBoards messaged me here... but not via my email. So of course, I never got the warning message. Why didn't I get the message? Okay, you can skip this part if personal problems don't interest you (I hear ya, I'm not much for them either). Just go down to the [**] below. Long story as background: I am a two-time suicide survivor. Both attempts came after I was forced, more or less, to transfer from an all-girls religious school to a public school. I made it through one year, with a great deal of support from my mother and friends. The next year started out badly. Then my mother was killed by a drunken driver just before Christmas. It still bothers me, and it happened 25 years ago. After that is a blur. My two attempts came close together, I was hospitalized both times and put on daily medication that I continued to take until 6 years ago. So... am I a happy person? Yes, I think I am. But I have moments, and Christmas is a bad time for me. This year I began to have serious anxiety attacks in September. Medication helped. Counseling helped. Two weeks ago I began to get a very familiar mental pattern that frankly scared the crap out of me. My doctor, reluctantly, but with my agreement, suggested a supervised rest. So I took one.
I'm good, everything is cool. I'm not going anywhere.
Been through this many times, and probably not the last. Like an old friend who shows up dirty and hungry. I clean 'em up, give 'em a meal, send them on their way.
[**] See that was easy. So, I will be a little more pro-active here, and I ask members to be aware of the TOS and not be bending the rules just because we're all friends and no one cares. I don't know how diligent ProBoards is about spam and porn posts but I'm pretty sure we will be on their watch list for a while, and I don't want to be picking up the pieces AGAIN. Cheers all, thanks for hanging in there and keeping this place the weird, wonderful wacky forum it's always been.
Happy New Year!
That's going to stop.
Membership is now by request only. So even if I can't get here for a few days, at least we won't have some idiot violating the TOS, which is what happened last week. ProBoards messaged me here... but not via my email. So of course, I never got the warning message. Why didn't I get the message? Okay, you can skip this part if personal problems don't interest you (I hear ya, I'm not much for them either). Just go down to the [**] below. Long story as background: I am a two-time suicide survivor. Both attempts came after I was forced, more or less, to transfer from an all-girls religious school to a public school. I made it through one year, with a great deal of support from my mother and friends. The next year started out badly. Then my mother was killed by a drunken driver just before Christmas. It still bothers me, and it happened 25 years ago. After that is a blur. My two attempts came close together, I was hospitalized both times and put on daily medication that I continued to take until 6 years ago. So... am I a happy person? Yes, I think I am. But I have moments, and Christmas is a bad time for me. This year I began to have serious anxiety attacks in September. Medication helped. Counseling helped. Two weeks ago I began to get a very familiar mental pattern that frankly scared the crap out of me. My doctor, reluctantly, but with my agreement, suggested a supervised rest. So I took one.
I'm good, everything is cool. I'm not going anywhere.
Been through this many times, and probably not the last. Like an old friend who shows up dirty and hungry. I clean 'em up, give 'em a meal, send them on their way.
[**] See that was easy. So, I will be a little more pro-active here, and I ask members to be aware of the TOS and not be bending the rules just because we're all friends and no one cares. I don't know how diligent ProBoards is about spam and porn posts but I'm pretty sure we will be on their watch list for a while, and I don't want to be picking up the pieces AGAIN. Cheers all, thanks for hanging in there and keeping this place the weird, wonderful wacky forum it's always been.
Happy New Year!
