The DIHALS forum has been hijacked by a small cohort of posters whom have rendered the forum useless.
The pattern is that a new poster is immediately attacked and told they have anxiety or some nonsense about having only perceived weakness, and then the rest of the gang jumps in to berate the poster. This, in turn, intimidates Nikki, who shuts down the thread, saying that it has run its course, without the poster’s question even being answered.
This happened to me recently when I asked a simple question. I received no answer, was attacked, and Nikki closed the thread. It also happened to mikef22 today. He has a swallowing problem consistent with ALS, and his doctors have taken it seriously enough to give him CAT scans and MRIs. But the cohort of intimidators immediately attacked Mike, even going so far as to say, wait till the main intimidator hears about this. Then the main intimidator chimed in and blasted the poster to smitherines, and the rest of the cohort then cheered and called the poster a troll. This piranha behavior intimidated Nikki enough for her to close the thread.
Are these people psychiatrists? What qualifications do they have to render a verdict of anxiety to people who have ALS symptoms? They are the only ones talking about anxiety, and then they go on to say that there have been tons of posters recently who have anxiety problems and use that to further fuel their attacks. The only ones who are saying “anxiety” are the intimidators, not the doctors. I’ve read just about every thread in this forum, and have found few, if any cases of someone having real ALS symptoms that turned out to be anxiety.
I have the following suggestions:
The pattern is that a new poster is immediately attacked and told they have anxiety or some nonsense about having only perceived weakness, and then the rest of the gang jumps in to berate the poster. This, in turn, intimidates Nikki, who shuts down the thread, saying that it has run its course, without the poster’s question even being answered.
This happened to me recently when I asked a simple question. I received no answer, was attacked, and Nikki closed the thread. It also happened to mikef22 today. He has a swallowing problem consistent with ALS, and his doctors have taken it seriously enough to give him CAT scans and MRIs. But the cohort of intimidators immediately attacked Mike, even going so far as to say, wait till the main intimidator hears about this. Then the main intimidator chimed in and blasted the poster to smitherines, and the rest of the cohort then cheered and called the poster a troll. This piranha behavior intimidated Nikki enough for her to close the thread.
Are these people psychiatrists? What qualifications do they have to render a verdict of anxiety to people who have ALS symptoms? They are the only ones talking about anxiety, and then they go on to say that there have been tons of posters recently who have anxiety problems and use that to further fuel their attacks. The only ones who are saying “anxiety” are the intimidators, not the doctors. I’ve read just about every thread in this forum, and have found few, if any cases of someone having real ALS symptoms that turned out to be anxiety.
I have the following suggestions:
- If you can’t provide an answer to a poster’s question that addresses the question, simply don’t reply to the poster.
- Nikki, ban the intimidators from the forum so that poster’s questions can be answered.
- Nikki, step down as moderator if you can’t stand up to the intimidators.
- Shut down the DIHALS section if people can't control themselves.