Moderation of the community
Hi all, given recent posts I think it is important as a moderator and manager of the online network that I make comment about the disrespect that has been evident on the network lately and the role of...
Forum Discussion
I agree with the basic sentiments @zoffiel has expressed above. I'm not on this forum so often because there are few men here and because I think more often than not women want to talk amongst themselves. My forum of choice for the past four years has been breastcancer.org (BCO), the US site. I landed there because I wanted information on IBC and then stayed to get support and support others, both women and men. I am pretty much the only man posting there (192,000 members) and I look to reassure and/or advise the occasional man (often a young man) who thinks they have breast cancer.
As to censoring posts, this is unheard of on the BCO site. Mods are very absent and only come on if they feel a newbie isn't getting questions answered. There have been plenty of grumblings from the forum regulars about plans to revamp a site that has been around for 14 years. This, I'm sure, the mods here can relate to. Site owners and site users are always going to have a conflict of ideas and interests.
In any case, I've always found members here very supportive of the few guys that venture here and was heartened to see the discussion on changing the newsletter from Beacon to Pink Lady was mostly against such a change.