Dear forum users

Thank you for all your comments, thoughts and ideas about the forum the possible reasons why people might choose not to remain active on it.

The moderation team will look closely at all of your suggestions and we will report back on how we can move forward, together with the forum community

However this debate is getting very heated and at times bad tempered, which may itself be a reason for people leaving.

Please do respect the forum guidelines

http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/default.aspx?page=8686

These were drawn up in consultation with forum users and are important to ensuring that everybody feels safe and welcomed.

If posts are felt to be in breech of these, we will edit or delete them

People were asked to give reasons why they've deserted this site and it seems to me that a few members are again belittling and making fun of the reasons that are being given by some members, if they've left or feel uncomfotable on this forum for whatever reason they have a right to voice it, however trivial certain members may think it is, it's obviously a problem to them!

Lets not be childish please, it doesn't help anyone.

Hi all.I'm leaving the forum.I will give my reason.When you log on the words that jump out at you are welcome to the forum.Then you come on to all the back biting and bickering. When you start arguing about the arguing,asking people to post and then criticise people for posting to many times,its just knocking peoples confidence.I wish everyone on here and those to come peace in their life,and strengh to fight this terrible illness.

Love and light Angel4ux

gill im not bein funny u say lets not be childish ,but yesturday i neally left here agin but got talked back in to comin back by a dear friend,i neally went cus i got told to grow up ,and ive bin told many times to as well by a person on here ,which i will not name,allihave done is keep to the rules on here and said i would like to see about say resurch and fundraisin ,but to get pm from a person agin to be told to grow up,i things i was tryin to speak about was not as good as all the others ,and i had really tryed to think hard wot i would like

Looks like you've opened up the gates Leyther and invited in all the past forum members who obviously had nothing or little to offer in the first place.

Now they have got under everybodies skin and causing another exodus. Don't let them. We need Ali's and Angels, we don't need dissers and detractors.

Eck

Ali,

Whoever pm'd you forward it to PUK and let them deal with this person.

I said lets not be childish because that's what this thread is turning into, childish games!

Angel: if you leave it means that those who want to control the Forum with their own agenda have won.I was off the the forum for a long time because I got so fed up with ther pettiness of some postings.After this recent spate of nastiness I was tempted to say,"Blow it,I have better things to do." On refection, I decided to stay as I did not feel it was right that a very few members,maybe less than we think if there are multiple personalities, should drag the forum down to cheap jibs at others. This is not the Jeremy Kyle show.

Eck,

The thread was started to invite past members in and how rude to say they didn't have anything to offer this forum. This forum should be for everyone who is affected by PD not just a chosen few, it shouldn't be them and us!

Eck: I as a past forum member, may have nothing to offer you, but I hope I may be helpful to others. I am sure this is the case with many other Forum members.

Eck, I have stayed quiet on this thread until now, but your latest post has gone too far – even for you. How dare you suggest that the past posters have ‘got under everybodies (sic) skin’? They certainly haven’t got under mine, and sometimes it seems as though they are the only ones with anything constructive to say.