Posted by allisonm on April 21, 2002, at 23:35:00
I don't quite get why this 2000 board is such a huge deal. I'm an old timer. I was happy to see the new board. I didn't even know about all of the controversy until after I saw the board existed. I lurk mostly on PB. That's because the questions have been repeated so many times by so many new folks that there doesn't seem to be much to talk about anymore. I've seen lots of people come and go. I still post if I think I can contribute info about a particular drug I've taken, even tho I have answered the questions 10 times before.
I'm past the learning stage on a lot of this stuff. I've been there, done that. I don't have much new to add. Anything I do have to talk about, it often seems not to get answered anyway (another form of exclusion). I hardly know any of the names on the PB board anymore. It's been good to see names like Phil, Greg, Shar, Willow, Cass, Kazoo et al. once again. I used to know them when the board was small and when there was only one board, but I rarely see them now.
I don't really see what the big deal is on the new board. Everyone has the other same boards everyone has been using all along. If you look at the posts on 2000, they seem pretty much to be hellos and catching up messages between people who know each other and their hardships. You can see what they're saying. You can reply to them as you like on the other boards -- and obviously you have and are. Are the 2000 topics of such burning interest that it's imperative to be able to contribute to the threads? Do you really want to catch up on Phil and Shar's latest cocktails? Is this so interesting to you and so very important to be a part of?
Sure, these messages could be put on PB or PSB, but they aren't. A lot of the names on 2000 I don't see on the other boards much. I wasn't even sure they were still coming to the boards. Trying to talk to them on the regular boards about old familiar topics from years past that no one now knows anything about is akin to trying to shout a conversation from across a crowded restaurant on a Friday night.
My opinion, since everyone here is free to express theirs and appears to be taking best advantage of it.
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