Don’t worry realist I have learned a lesson I’ll not remind anyone about possibly life saving medical treatment and tests again. They will have to fend for themselves because this tiresome roundabout each time is just getting on mine and I’m sure others nerves. I have better places I can post to let people know where it is appreciated and not used to peddle fear and denigrate the people who are trying to help us stay alive.
Actually we have a self modded bit of the forum perhaps I’ll give that a try ! It’s never occured to me before but it might be the answer.
Julie, you are free to post whatever you want. You can wax lyrical about the benefits of crack cocaine if you wish. What you can’t do is censor other people’s views on the subject. It’s simple debate, nothing more. In life people ARE going to disagree with you. In life people ARE going to sometimes put up credible arguments for which your anecdotal experience has no counter. Learning to accept that and being more open to considering the plethora of consistent information out there is a wholesome thing. There is nothing personal in debate, it should be the free exchange of information and ideas hopefully supported by good data.
If you are considering a self-modding part of the forum to debate that rather suggests you are too afraid to have views challenged. If that’s where you need to be, fair enough.
It wasn’t a debate realist,that wasn’t what I intended with my reminder. Same with flu jabs they are reminders to people to look at what’s on offer and protect themselves if they wish. I always assume as adults we have researched as much as we want before we make our decisions. Debate assumes we haven’t.
This is an open forum Julie. It’s not your personal web space to do as you wish. Post what you like but don’t try to censor what others want to add to it
Nobody owns any thread that they create. You are simply the first poster in the thread, nothing more. You wanted to tell people (god knows why) when your Mammogram appointment was and also wanted to encourage others to have Mammograms. That’s your prerogative. It’s a free world, a free site. I wanted to tell people that Mammograms are extremely harmful, do more harm than good, provide the data to back it up and highlight just how serious an issue it is that so many ignorant women still, even today, believe the misguided fallacy that Mammograms have any effect on breast cancer mortality rates.
You say what you want to say Julie. I will say what I want to say. You don’t have to agree. You don’t have to like it.
And your assumption that readers are well researched is patently incorrect. Many here absolutely need the information. Some don’t, and that’s fine, those people can (and should) just ignore these threads.
As I said previously I won’t bother again realist you get your way you can debate as much as you want. In fact seems strange to me you wait for anyone else to start a thread you could have your own or does taking over other people’s suit your agenda more ?
Nobody “owns” threads Julie. So it’s impossible to “take over someone else’s”. Threads are just threads. They are a “starter for 10” by an initial poster, nothing more nothing less.
What a person starts, others will add to, others will finish. Simple as. Open forum. Simple concept imho.
A reminder to folks that if you wish to debate a medical subject on health, it should be posted in the Other Debates/Discussions section… not General Health.
Ruthio, the Flu jab thread started as a general reminder to members in the Health section, then after goodness knows how many pages it was turned into a debate and was more appropriately moved to the Debate/Discussion section.
I agree.
Trouble is, you start a thread, but you don’t own it, and you have absolutely no idea how it will develop.
Look at Loyalty…ended up a doggy thread, should be in Doggy section!
Ah but who decides what’s frivolous!
Good luck with that one!
It’s like walking on eggshells…you might post something intentionally lighthearted and suffer a poisonous diatribe as a result!
To be fair, if this thread was purely for the purpose of Julie informing people when her Mammogram appointment was, then that achieved perhaps it should have been locked up !
Serious thread Mags? OP tells us when her Mammograph appointment is, hardly a “serious” thread, but yes, it then progresses naturally into discussion about Mammography itself which I agree is a serious discussion, but then you tell us we can’t have that discussion here. So how can it still be a serious thread?
Honestly I don’t really understand why you haven’t just locked it up.
If we can’t discuss Mammography in this thread then what is there left to discuss that is on topic with “knowing when Julie’s appointment is” ?
Usually threads are closed because of bickering or something mods need to look at, unless you are suggesting all threads that run their course have to be locked.
