I really am going to leave the message board alone for a while

I got a nasty message, and an infraction, because I was "chatty".  I just said I was sitting out in the sun and I felt it was good for immunity, and glad Ron was happy to be kept inside. 

I am going to go delete the bookmarks.  I am done with this shit.  If a board member wants to get ahold of me they can send me a message which will ping my email.  There, now I can't "forget" and click it. 

I had started hundreds of threads over the years which got tons of clicks and replies, generated a lot of traffic for their board. 

I will give it a couple of months and see.  Some woman kept going on about fat people and never got disciplined for it, very rude saying "Just eat one donut and take a vitamin every day, it's not that hard".  She also went on another post basically saying the virus was only affecting old people and she didn't care why did she have to suffer. 

But that is the problem with message boards, they can be arbitrary. 

Blog = better. 

I have not had good luck with message boards. 

Rapture ready was my first.  At the end they had gotten very rigid and dogmatic.  Also constant begging for money which to me was a big turn off.  The board split and it was very confusing who went where. 

Then I did Low Carb Friends.  That was OK for a while but I had a lot of bullying in one forum I actually had the moderators cut off my access.  I had a very popular blog there.  "Heather Shrinks in Houston" (it has since been deleted by the mods). 

A woman had posted in the health forum saying her son had been diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenic.  She was baffled how he could have both and felt his life was over.  I had always been open about my problems.  I told her it was OK, I had the same condition and it was very manageable as long as he took his medication as directed. 

The moderators went nuts and began slapping infractions (!) on me for "being too personal" etc. 

Let's be honest, I get so many readers because I am so f*cking personal.  Eighteen THOUSAND hits just this month.  But I think they didn't want me discussing mental illness. 

I had also made comments about "franken foods" (processed low carb foods) and they had a store selling just that.  I told newbies the foods were a bad idea.  That cost them money, not the wisest of me but I had lost a good weight loss eating that crap. 

So I left, leaving a link to here, and I modified the blog title so someone could find my handle (Houston Heather) if they did a search.  Some people followed me and here we are 11 years later. 

This one I was OK for a long while but they don't want me to talk anymore.  For some reason suddenly the same Heather is just pissing them off.  I haven't changed, they have.  I tried changing my style but they aren't liking it. 

One of the other board members sent me a message about a week ago saying he was being run out of town on a rail and to look out, there was a new boss in town.  I guess he was right. 

I haven't changed so if they suddenly hate everything me I will stay away. 

I can take a hint.