When I joined D360 almost two years ago, this was a fantastic site for help and healing, but I was seeing that a lot of legal questions were being answered incorrectly, more out of emotion than actual legal experience or knowledge - and I chose to take my personal time to fix that.
My joining, my posting, was a positive influence on this site. It is something you won't find on any other "devoted to divorce" site - a "resident" attorney willing to take as much time as I do, go the lengths I do, for others - with no expectation of compensation, just an occasional "thank you".
What is yours? What is your positive influence?
All I have seen from these fake accounts, harassing posts and general disrespect for the mission of D360, is a loss of trust in the site and worse, people who are in NEED of true support leaving (some quietly some not so quietly) because it makes them very uncomfortable.
Some of you think you are pointing out a flaw of the site - but I'll tell you something, the fact that less than nice people end up on a support site, or that there are gong to be some members that rub others the wrong way, is part of life - it happens just as much offline as it does online...and a becoming a bully to combat a bully...doesn't work.
I want this crap to stop - today. I want this site to go back to what it once was...and leave the policing of the site to the powers that be...you may not agree to how they handle things, but voice your issues via the suggestion e-mail. Do not post to the site anymore if it is such an issue for you, there are plenty of other divorce sites out there.
In an effort to influence this change back to good - I'm going to do something drastic. I want you finally realize the true negative impact all of the games that are being played is having....
I'm leaving.
I'm taking my legal advice and leaving the site, hopefully temporarily, as long as this bs stops, however as long as it continues, I won't be here for anyone. Not in e-mail, not on the boards, not off D360.
I'm sorry to those of you I'll leave hanging in the middle of dire situations. Maybe the game players will fork over a couple hundred bucks for you to get the help you lost....(riiight)
So the choice is yours - do you affect the needs of thousands of members for the selfishness of your own? Does your childishness take the legal help so many people desperately need because they can't afford any other help, away?
I don't know any other way to get you people to understand that the impact of your games is THAT serious...other than to have it affect EVERYONE.
You don't seem to care if "regular" members are upset enough to leave - so will it finally make you understand if your ridiculous actions cause a valued need of the site to be gone? SOME of you instigators say you have a lot of respect for me....time to prove it.
Think long and hard about this....