Posted by OddipusRex on April 8, 2003, at 8:36:51
In reply to I think of no 'golden age' of babble dear » OddipusRex, posted by ~Alii~ on April 8, 2003, at 0:18:30
Thanks for your reply. The Med board seems so different now. At one time there was a lot of posts about antidepressant cocktails and augmenting and tweaking and discussions of neurotransmitters and ordering your own meds from overseas. People who said bad things about antidepressants were in danger of being accused of being scientologists! Alternative therapies were dismissed and woe to anyone who mentioned Breggin or Glenmullen! There's a wider range of opinion there now but I kind of miss that old spirit and the enthusiasm for a chemical cure. I think maybe it's because there haven't been any new ADs in such a long time or maybe it's just my personal enthusiasm flagging. Or maybe it was all those people trying to get off effexor that put a crimp on things. I just know when I came back to PB to get myself revved up to give ADs another try everyone was talking about fish oil! I stuck with fish oil myself and I'm glad I did. Those are just personal impressions I haven't read that board much lately. (And I constantly feel like I have to qualify everything so someone won't take offense) Still...And it is hard to keep track of anyone over time because the board moves faster.
Even though some people may have left because of administrative policies, I think there is a wider range of opinion and people too. I think all the PBCs do protect some unpopular posters from being run off by dominant posters. And I don't think that's always bad. But I feel the administrative ax hanging over my head all the time too so it also has kind of a stifling effect.
And speaking of feeling like I always have to qualify things :) I hesitated about using the word fascination for just the reason you mentioned. I was thinking of PB like a single organism changing and twisting and reforming. I didn't mean a Babbler Soap Opera to amuse myself.
I like the people here now. I think they're pretty Golden for the most part.
I don't know why I even asked. I think too much. Thanks for answering.
> I do not think of babble as having had a golden age that was and now has been lost but without doing exhaustive archive searches to bring up the specifics of what I mean about tone change and moderator/administration change it is hard to explain. I've been a lurker since the beginning and I agree the changes have been 'fascinating' to watch but fascinating suggests that this board is like some sort of soap opera or daily that one comes to to follow the lives of the players. I find it more inspirational to follow the stories of those who have struggled against depression 8+ years. Ten years. Twenty years. And they're still here trying meds and talking about the shit they're going through but unable to do so in the fashion they might have been able to do about when Pax suggested mebeeeee 2000ish....not sure.
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> Like I said without exhaustive search for specifics I cannot adequately answer your question nor do I really think of a golden age.
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> I miss many who no longer post due to board moderation/(mis)administration or rules or for whatever reason they don't post anymore. I find the barage of new names overwhelming and the same questions being answered again and again without people searching the archives frustrating but I am but a user of this board. I have many frustrations. ;)
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> Namaste OR.
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> ~Alii
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