So what do you do?

[HamTown]

What's been interesting to me (I'm a major lurker) is that posters who I have seen spar heatedly are looking out for one another. Posters from "both sides of the aisle", so to speak, are sticking up for one another. It's truly been an affirming few days to see that loyalty of most posters is to each other, not to the location.

 

[lovemygoofy]

Well yes I'm sad about it all but more than anything I'm just pissed off about it. I haven't had time lately to really post on here. I've been reading and checking up and it just seems to be getting worse.

I'm pissed that there is no rhyme or reason to what's going on. Some people are gone and they weren't even around but on vacation. Others were away from the board for whatever reason. I'm sure me saying this is going to help myself out the door as well. I really do love the DIS. Never have I seen such an ecelectic gathering of people thoughts and ideas. I've met some great friends here, I've cried on here more times than I can count and soemtimes when it felt like I had no one else in the world someoen from the DIS would give a damn about those minutes in my life.

Right now it's like a tomb around here and maybe we need a funeral for what was and what won't be for some of us anymore. More than anything I'd like to see an open discussion for the members that are still here with NO intereference from anyone that is gone. I would think that it's due and time at some point. No they don't have to give us answers but at some point I would think something has to give. The constant bringing it up, threads going poof and postings disappear is just pissing people off even more. It's not the community board anymore. Sometimes it feels like it's the war on free speach board.

Like I said I love the DIS and I'm heartbroken about what's going on for sure but I'm still pissed and would like an open discussion about it if at all possible. I hope my posting won't show me the door but if so know that I love the DIS.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

I guess I'm just frustrated because I've sat back and watched this play out and it just doesn't make much sense. There are people who are gone that haven't done anything and then there are people who are still here and are blatantly taunting and attacking others but because they're kissing bum they get to stick around. It just doesn't make sense.

It's just sad to see what's this place has become, I came here when I was pregnant with my youngest DD, it's where I came for support when we were hospitalized with her multiple times over the course of her first year. I just don't see it as the place to come for support anymore.

 

[LaraK]

Then so be it.

I am very sorry for you loss and I think the support you describe is exactly why so many people are so upset. We've all leaned on these boards in difficult times. The thought of having them change rips our hearts out.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

The thing is, while some people here are asking the question "Should I stay or should I go?" (don't blame me if that song is now stuck in your head), there are 80+ people who didn't have a choice! For doing nothing wrong.

80?? Good grief, I thought it was 1/2 that, as if that weren't bad enough. When did more crap happen?

 

[solferino]

Well yes I'm sad about it all but more than anything I'm just pissed off about it. I haven't had time lately to really post on here. I've been reading and checking up and it just seems to be getting worse.

I'm pissed that there is no rhyme or reason to what's going on. Some people are gone and they weren't even around but on vacation. Others were away from the board for whatever reason. I'm sure me saying this is going to help myself out the door as well. I really do love the DIS. Never have I seen such an ecelectic gathering of people thoughts and ideas. I've met some great friends here, I've cried on here more times than I can count and soemtimes when it felt like I had no one else in the world someoen from the DIS would give a damn about those minutes in my life.

Right now it's like a tomb around here and maybe we need a funeral for what was and what won't be for some of us anymore. More than anything I'd like to see an open discussion for the members that are still here with NO intereference from anyone that is gone. I would think that it's due and time at some point. No they don't have to give us answers but at some point I would think something has to give. The constant bringing it up, threads going poof and postings disappear is just pissing people off even more. It's not the community board anymore. Sometimes it feels like it's the war on free speach board.

Like I said I love the DIS and I'm heartbroken about what's going on for sure but I'm still pissed and would like an open discussion about it if at all possible. I hope my posting won't show me the door but if so know that I love the DIS.

Tina, you rock.

 

[disneynutt1225]

Very well said, Tina.

 

[HelenePA]

80?? Good grief, I thought it was 1/2 that, as if that weren't bad enough. When did more crap happen?

I thought it was in the mid 80's

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

For me, it's never been 'just a message board', At certain times in the past few years, it's been my sanity. My place to go to get away from the bad things that were happening in my life. A place to go for support, friendship, laughs.

And I've done all that with a lot of people on here. Laughed with them, cried with them, leaned on them, and had them lean on me.

Now so many are missing. I miss all of them. I want them back.

MTE. I've laughed, cried, and vented with many people here. I wasn't always able to do that with people in real life because of distance but I was able to do that with people here. I may not have always posted a reply to them but it didn't matter I was there with them anyway. Now, they are no longer here because of either their own doing or not, but I want them back. I feel like my family has been broken up.

need_a_Disney_fix: I am very sorry about your mom.

 

[CF'er]

The ark had them two by two. Here it seems to be one at a time.

 

[SuBeat]

I don't give a rip with what happened. I lost my mom this week and so many DISers provided me with so much comfort. There is absolutely no way I would ever leave the DIS and no, I am not a tool. So to me, it is a no-brainer where I belong. DISers come and they go. In the grand scheme of things what happened here the past week is very trivial. Get over it people because there is so much more to life. THIS is where I belong.

I'm sorry about your mom. My mom died nearly 2 years ago, I know how it hurts. But what is the DIS if not the people that post here? The DIS that we knew and loved is not the same place if those people are no longer here.

 

[Planogirl]

Tina, I'd sure hate to see you go.

 

[Byrd]

Well yes I'm sad about it all but more than anything I'm just pissed off about it. I haven't had time lately to really post on here. I've been reading and checking up and it just seems to be getting worse.

I'm pissed that there is no rhyme or reason to what's going on. Some people are gone and they weren't even around but on vacation. Others were away from the board for whatever reason. I'm sure me saying this is going to help myself out the door as well. I really do love the DIS. Never have I seen such an ecelectic gathering of people thoughts and ideas. I've met some great friends here, I've cried on here more times than I can count and soemtimes when it felt like I had no one else in the world someoen from the DIS would give a damn about those minutes in my life.

Right now it's like a tomb around here and maybe we need a funeral for what was and what won't be for some of us anymore. More than anything I'd like to see an open discussion for the members that are still here with NO intereference from anyone that is gone. I would think that it's due and time at some point. No they don't have to give us answers but at some point I would think something has to give. The constant bringing it up, threads going poof and postings disappear is just pissing people off even more. It's not the community board anymore. Sometimes it feels like it's the war on free speach board.

Like I said I love the DIS and I'm heartbroken about what's going on for sure but I'm still pissed and would like an open discussion about it if at all possible. I hope my posting won't show me the door but if so know that I love the DIS.

You always have the best, most thoughtful responses. Thank you Tina!

 

[NCDisneyMom]

I thought it was in the mid 80's

That's why I said 80+. I wasn't sure of the exact number. It just keeps happening. It doesn't matter if it's 8 or 80, what's happened is just wrong.

 

[tinker&belle]

Tina-

Regardless of any different political views, I feel the need to thank your family for your daily sacrifices.

 

[DemonLlama]

The silence here is deafening.

Having been a member here for 8 years, Splash, I understand your feelings completely.

I've been thinking a lot about the silencing of critics that has taken place on this board in the past week. It made me revisit many of the ideas I'd not had to worry about since those debates in my ethics, philosophy, and literature classes.

A few that sank in:


The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

~John F. Kennedy


If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

~Noam Chomsky


Don't get me wrong, I don't despise anyone around here or on any other board. But Chomsky's point is well taken.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

Well said Tina.

 

[HelenePA]

need_a_Disney_fix i'm sorry for your loss too, I lost my mom when I was 26. Those same people who "helped" me get thru that loss chose to ban me from their board when I went thru another 5 family losses including a pregnancy with in a year. I have a very hard time trying to attach to people because of it on the net now.

 

[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

Amen, Tina.

 

[Byrd]

Tina, I'd sure hate to see you go.

I agree, I don't want to see Tina go. It would be so unAmerican!