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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 638619" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Problem is, that people really are leaving. This is a pale shadow of a place it used to be even quite recently. General Parenting is all but dead, there are only couple messages from this years at Special Education, Watercooler is slowly dying, Substance abuse is bit slow but still functional, Parent Emeritus is busy, but you really need to hold your tongue and sign for specific, spiritual philosophy if you don't want to end up admonished. For me it feels more like a revisionist meeting, and quite fundamentalist and legalistic one of those, rather than a soft place to land for battle weary parents. </p><p></p><p>I was looking through my private messages one day and noticed that maybe 80-90 % of people I have had conversations are now gone. It is of course nature of the beast, people in boards like these come and go and we have also gained many new wonderful members during the last year or year and half, but during that time we have also lost many great long term contributors, like almost all I used to have private conversations with. Many of them had been here years and wrote thousands of messages, but then all the sudden they one by one just quitted. Some stop by seldomly in special topics, but that is it.</p><p></p><p>This used to be much more worldly and pragmatic, down to earth type of place and supportive for people in their struggles and their choices. And even with some levity and fun mixed to it. Now it feels all doom and gloom and striving to be the better believer of some spiritual agenda than person next to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 638619, member: 14557"] Problem is, that people really are leaving. This is a pale shadow of a place it used to be even quite recently. General Parenting is all but dead, there are only couple messages from this years at Special Education, Watercooler is slowly dying, Substance abuse is bit slow but still functional, Parent Emeritus is busy, but you really need to hold your tongue and sign for specific, spiritual philosophy if you don't want to end up admonished. For me it feels more like a revisionist meeting, and quite fundamentalist and legalistic one of those, rather than a soft place to land for battle weary parents. I was looking through my private messages one day and noticed that maybe 80-90 % of people I have had conversations are now gone. It is of course nature of the beast, people in boards like these come and go and we have also gained many new wonderful members during the last year or year and half, but during that time we have also lost many great long term contributors, like almost all I used to have private conversations with. Many of them had been here years and wrote thousands of messages, but then all the sudden they one by one just quitted. Some stop by seldomly in special topics, but that is it. This used to be much more worldly and pragmatic, down to earth type of place and supportive for people in their struggles and their choices. And even with some levity and fun mixed to it. Now it feels all doom and gloom and striving to be the better believer of some spiritual agenda than person next to you. [/QUOTE]
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