Social-anxiety-community.org - www.social-anxiety-community.org

this site isn't useable, from a social point of view.

(review centre won't allow language used on sa-uk. isn't that nice?)

anxiety sites tend to attract sh t, for two reasons:

a) people with things wrong with them (possibly mentally, often physically or biologically) visit these sites. they are life-hostile with a "f k you" attitude, because of these things. they often want to drag other people down to their level. their physical or biological state might prevent them from coming up (yeah, lets be an apologist)

b) because the site is for anxiety sufferers, when a hostile posts bad information ("my advice on being a success, f k it, tell them to go f k themselves"), the rest of the forum is less likely to challenge them on it. people with "f k u" written on their forehead, know this. they've probably been sh t for quite a long time. they know the territory.

in life, you have persona's. you don't act the same way at work as you do around your family, and you don't act the same way down the pub as those. media content has aliases. writers have pseudonyms. politicians and sports people go by alternate names

It's worth pointing out again. some people (esp on 'mental health' forums) are physically/biologically messed up, and want to drag the rest of the world down to them. it can be in the form of a general "f k it, f k you". ( it is against forum "guidelines" to swear in public threads. it Isn't against guidelines to swear in the blog sections (blog authors can remove any comments they don't like, and there is no way to "rate" blog content), and it isn't against forum 'guidelines' to post images that say "f k you".

no-one wants to start a text argument. especially on a forum where your next post might be "help/I'm feeling bad".

any communication site where where people share personal information, and information is logged, needs to have an anonymous option (why do you think the internet has been a success?)

if a forum enforces a "no alias" policy (which is a great way to get no one to use your forum), they need a rating system. SA-UK would not be quite so bad, if it had a +/- rep points, 1-5 star ratings, etc.

if a forums only social mechanism, is for people with anxiety, to personally reply to a hostile and say "you're talking sh t" - it ain't gonna happen. some people are like spiky eggshells. there is nothing inside, and Will cause damage if left unattended. and sometimes there is no one to apply just a little bit of real pressure. because it's an ANXIETY forum.

and people will visit an anx forum, get anxiety, and (maybe) leave the forum.

so far, sh t on the forum appears to come from some of the members. I haven't (as yet) on this forum seen that the mods/admins/site owners themself want to drag the rest of the world down to them. at the last count, there were about 140 members online over the course of 24 hours. if I was a SA-UK mod? I probably wouldn't care. I wouldn't answer messages. I'd just ban stuff.

if you hang around on a forum for more than 6 months without seeing someone type cr p, you're probably doing pretty well. or 6 days.

to be fair, if life has dealt you a biological fail, you probably want to post hate, and take as many people with you as you can.