I have checked on the Number. of members on this site...16747, registered as recently as the 12 of June...and they register and then...silence ! ? What is this all about ? Mystified Granny Moss...There seems to be an Army out there...playing some unusual games.....
Surely a Forum is something to respect and use for the benefit and confort of the patients that suffer this beastly PMR ? Or is it of no value ? If so, why do they bother ?....Granny Moss. :roll: :roll: :roll:
Granny Moss - on this forum there are hundreds of different subjects to post on, not just PMR and GCA, and each of those subjects here is like a single thread on the other forum. The biggest subject within Arthritic/bone/muscle, which PMR belongs to as well, is probably rheumatoid arthritis and there are a lot more people who suffer from that and - as a result - more interested members and posts. Most people stick to their \"special interest\" even though they would probably find things applicable to them on other threads.
And as Chris has said - there are a lot of \"spam\" \"members\" who join to try to post advertisements for all sorts of things both nasty and less nasty as well as people who are either downright sick-minded or mentally ill who want to post abusive and foul-mouthed comments or those who have a whacky agenda to peddle rather than being helpful to others with the same illness or problem. This forum is excellent at moderating and excluding such persons but some others I read are not and some of the posts are absolutely vile - and repeated ad nauseum so that real and valuable posts disappear in the pile of rubbish. :x :cry:
As for joining and not commenting - I joined this forum and then read every single past post before I made my first comment! It took me a week or two (at least!) but I wanted to learn first and then posted when I saw a question I did know I knew something about. Even I needed to screw up some courage to put it down in writing! :wink: :roll: It's like joining a group of people you don't know - you want to size up the opposition a bit :lol: . And there are a lot of sites and forums out there in the internet I wouldn't join in with ever because they have no solid foundation of knowledge behind them and are about as valuable in terms of providing information as a checkout operator at the supermarket telling you something about brain surgery :lol:
Eileen
Dear Eileen, thank you. I will now be less cross......! You are so clever in how you can explain everything ! I hope you will come and visit the \" Other forum ? \" I hope to be able to have my user name changed to Granny Moss, if possible....I do not like Margherita ....PS I just won the Euro lottery....£2.70....from small beginnins ?.....This morning, my head is so WOOLLY, I could not undestand a word of what the poor receptionist at my dentist was saying....so, had to put the receiver down...will try again this afternoon....What a life !....See you soon ! ( in writing, of course ! ) Love, Granny Moss xxx
I think I'm in residence at the other forum Granny Moss! I see you have been re-christened over there - maybe I should ask Chris to change my user name too so it's more obvious who I am (but perhaps I wanted to wear dark glasses for a while 8) ...) :oops: :lol:
Eileen