Not everyone hate you, Daze, I don’t, you are unique in your views and deserve to be heard, but I understand the need to present it in an orderly fashion to keep everyone’s hat on.
It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round, and it would be awful boring if everyone was the same.
Keep on posting here, (if you want of course), and remember that just because someone doesn’t reply to your posts, doesn’t mean they didn’t get something out of it, and,
more importantly,
the minority that do respond,
don’t speak for us all.
In a very real sense, your daughter is right, Daze - you shouldn’t spend your time hanging around people who treat you badly. But I can assure you that the mod team doesn’t hate you, though I also understand why it seems like we do.
I think the same thing about some of the members here - sometimes people mean something as a joke and don’t appreciate how it comes across to you, and then seem surprised when you’re hurt and react angrily. And when you react angrily, you’re usually the one who gets punished for it, even though you feel that you were provoked. You’re not the sort of person to lie down and take it when you feel you’ve been treated unfairly.
It sucks, I see the pattern too. Unfortunately, here, and everywhere else in the world, it’s the angry reaction that gets the negative attention, and not whatever brought the reaction on. It can make it seem like the entire world is against you.
If someone is bothering you here, please let us know. I’ve talked to people about this for you in the past, and I’m willing to do it again if it helps you feel less threatened and ganged up on here. Angry retaliations are still going to earn suspensions - when it gets into name calling and insults, we have to do that - but I’d like it if we could find a way to handle the problems before they get to that point.
Anyway, listen to your daughter. If this place causes you more pain than it helps you, then I don’t want to urge you to spend more time here. I’d like it, though, if this were a place that helps you. I think you have a lot of good things to bring to the table.
In my painful experience bullying is often tolerated and therefore encouraged by those moderating a mental health website and if you react to that abuse you get abused further by the moderators.
Not saying it’s the case here but a lot of forum moderators could best be described as antisocial/sociopaths. The kind who joined in the bullying of other, vulnerable children.
Forum moderators on mental health forums need to be proactive in stamping out bullying and ruthlessly punish those who target others for abuse. Blaming the abused for snapping and reacting to the abuse is as bad and evil as blaming a woman for being raped.