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Keith Bidgeman
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2 years ago
in John Grohol Censors Comment, Avoids Discussion on Hungry Blues
Unfortunately, John Grohol’s words concerning how his Forum’s should be run does not match his actions.
BrainTalk was probably the biggest Forum for neurological disorders. The site crashed for several months. John Grohol tried to hijack BrainTalk with a site mimicking it that he called BrainTalk2.
A lot of people were unhappy with BrainTalk due to the arrogant way in which their Moderators treated members. Discussing their actions was not even allowed. So for the first time, the malice and arrogance of BrainTalk Moderators was discussed on John Grohol’s copycat BrainTalk2. He enabled a major inquest to take place amongst BrainTalk2’s members concerning it.
Most of BrainTalk’s members, finding out what had been going on at BrainTalk completely abandoned it for John Grohol’s new rival. He assured everyone of how well they would be treated. There would, according to him be no arrogance and intolerance on BrainTalk2, which he subsequently named NeuroTalk. They believed him and so left BrainTalk for good. Most of the Forums on BrainTalk are now almost completely inactive as a result of this.
However, since then, John Grohol and his Moderators have become progressively more arrogant and intolerant. Banning has been taking place without the rules being breached. Cogent reasons aren’t given. Questions whose answers make him look bad go unanswered. According to him, his Moderators are beyond criticism. Discussion of his Administration’s failings result in instant banning.
It has become just like BrainTalk- a compassionate and caring facade, with an intolerant and arrogant reality. Arrogance caught up with Administrators of BrainTalk. The same will happen with NeuroTalk, which is already losing active members every week.
BrainTalk was probably the biggest Forum for neurological disorders. The site crashed for several months. John Grohol tried to hijack BrainTalk with a site mimicking it that he called BrainTalk2.
A lot of people were unhappy with BrainTalk due to the arrogant way in which their Moderators treated members. Discussing their actions was not even allowed. So for the first time, the malice and arrogance of BrainTalk Moderators was discussed on John Grohol’s copycat BrainTalk2. He enabled a major inquest to take place amongst BrainTalk2’s members concerning it.
Most of BrainTalk’s members, finding out what had been going on at BrainTalk completely abandoned it for John Grohol’s new rival. He assured everyone of how well they would be treated. There would, according to him be no arrogance and intolerance on BrainTalk2, which he subsequently named NeuroTalk. They believed him and so left BrainTalk for good. Most of the Forums on BrainTalk are now almost completely inactive as a result of this.
However, since then, John Grohol and his Moderators have become progressively more arrogant and intolerant. Banning has been taking place without the rules being breached. Cogent reasons aren’t given. Questions whose answers make him look bad go unanswered. According to him, his Moderators are beyond criticism. Discussion of his Administration’s failings result in instant banning.
It has become just like BrainTalk- a compassionate and caring facade, with an intolerant and arrogant reality. Arrogance caught up with Administrators of BrainTalk. The same will happen with NeuroTalk, which is already losing active members every week.
2 years ago
in John Grohol Issues Misleading APA Damage Control on Hungry Blues
In correspondence with John Grohol, I have seen repeatedly that whan his integrity is challenged, he evades the issue, makes obviously false and spurious claims, tries to turn his errors on to other people, and fails to answer every question whose answer he does not like. Trying to reason with him is impossible, unless he feels that his public image is in danger. The image he tries to present publically and what he is like in person are two completely different things. The false public image he tries to portray is one of integrity and reason. The latter and the reality, is somebody who is arrogant and lacks any sense of honour and honesty, and who will do any say what he needs in order to gain advantage for himself.
