Posted by JGalt on January 13, 2002, at 22:33:17
In reply to Re: polls and studies, posted by Dr. Bob on January 13, 2002, at 20:32:04
John,
I respectfully disagree with you on this issue. While as you know I have a libertarian political philosophy, this board is provided for by Dr. Bob. He set it up, it is his board, and thus he is allowed to make the rules as he sees fit (this isn't communism, we don't supposedly own the board, the creater of the board does), and the people will choose by whether or not they stay whether or not his board/study is successful. Such is capitalism.
As far as I've seen (and please do correct me if I'm wrong on this), the only time he bothers to delete a post is if a person mentions where to obtain illegal material domestically or drugs from overseas. I believe he is just trying to stay within the bounds of the law set forth by our own draconian government. I believe they are the ones you should be complaining to. If it were okay to talk about such issues, this site would likely be monitored much more closely by our friends in washington, and perhaps the names of the people who talked about those issues would be put in a database for little use outside of evidence should they be brought to criminal trial for something related. I don't think any of us want that. The other thing is, this is a petty issue, if one wishes to talk about where to obtain them, then it is probably best that they discuss it in personal email. Alternatively there are many free lists of international pharmacies that are not scammers on the net, and they are not too hard to find with a simple search engine. I know of many other sites that have discussion boards devoted exclusively to the topic. That is how I, and most people I know, go about finding such items. I believe that this one simple rule (if indeed this is the only one he deletes posts/bans for as I have seen) is quite easy to get around through conventional means as I described above, and this is the best discussion board I have found on the net regarding depression. And unlike our government, I'm pretty sure Dr. Bob isn't going to abuse his infinite power over this board by adding more rules or things he bans for. To do so would be foolish for him, as it would drive people away if they were unable to discuss the almost complete range of topics we are currently allowed to discuss here.
As you have said you will no longer be posting on here, feel free to email me about this issue if you would like to discuss it.
Respectfully,
JGalt
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