Is Psych Forums Unfairly biased?

whero wrote:

SmallTalkRed wrote:

whero wrote:Yes it is biased. The mods all have the same opinion and never allow any controversy which is in my opinion a bad thing!

whero! ouch!
The amount of traffic-The PsychForums gets, it takes upon a life of it's own really.

peace.
red

These are one post users. They don't make a difference in the mentality of the forum especially since there is no debate forum or any general forum where users debate topics. In this place we simply agree on "the best" solution? Is that not true? I've never seen one mod give advice and then another mod come in and give a different advice. Why? Because it's a touchy subject.

whero,
Wait, are you talking about the Forum or mods?

whero-
If you are talking about the Forum, yes people here should agree to disagree. There are just too many views and opinions but everyone has the right to their feelings and views.

If you are talking about mods....huh? What it the point?
We agree to disagree and are respectful just like any other member.

We could have mod-mud wrestling on tuesdays and member-mud wrestling on fridays? LOL
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jmho....
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whero wrote:

SmallTalkRed wrote:

whero wrote:Yes it is biased. The mods all have the same opinion and never allow any controversy which is in my opinion a bad thing!

whero! ouch!
The amount of traffic-The PsychForums gets, it takes upon a life of it's own really.

peace.
red

These are one post users. They don't make a difference in the mentality of the forum especially since there is no debate forum or any general forum where users debate topics. In this place we simply agree on "the best" solution? Is that not true? I've never seen one mod give advice and then another mod come in and give a different advice. Why? Because it's a touchy subject.

I think that's because the one person likely knows more about the subject then the other one may.
Wouldn't be any different then member's posting, so why not mods or admins ?

That's not being biased, that's giving opinions.

You guys don't have to agree what we decide on, no one is always going to agree with how we deal with topics going out of control, and problem posters, but that's the way we run the site...

There's a ton of stuff I don't agree with but I don't let it bother me, it's a website, it's not face to face... no one is going to agree 100% all the time, or rarely... that's like any other site not just this one.

I am not sure if a debate forum has been brought up, I think it would cause more issues than not... but we'll see.


LOL Red... kinda hard to do that on a computer screen.

Butterfly Farie,
You are right, but it still makes me smile.

To be fair I think being a mod is a nuisance, I certainly wouldn't want to be one. I think the mods on here do okay, and you have to remember this is a mental health site. It's not like a soccer or ice hockey site where you can have a difference of opinion on a player etc. Say a paranoid schizophrenic said he stopped taking his medication because he thinks it's poison, the majority of people would persuade him to go back on the meds. Now all the mods on here would also probably persuade him to go back on the meds, is that being a sheep without your own opinion or just being sensible?

At the end of the day none of us are psychs, we only go on are own experiences or what we've read, so you can't say that the mods just all think the same because when it comes to a topic such as mental illness almost all of us think the same.

morning star wrote:To be fair I think being a mod is a nuisance, I certainly wouldn't want to be one. I think the mods on here do okay, and you have to remember this is a mental health site. It's not like a soccer or ice hockey site where you can have a difference of opinion on a player etc. Say a paranoid schizophrenic said he stopped taking his medication because he thinks it's poison, the majority of people would persuade him to go back on the meds. Now all the mods on here would also probably persuade him to go back on the meds, is that being a sheep without your own opinion or just being sensible?

At the end of the day none of us are psychs, we only go on are own experiences or what we've read, so you can't say that the mods just all think the same because when it comes to a topic such as mental illness almost all of us think the same.

Yeah and is that a good thing?

whero wrote:

morning star wrote:To be fair I think being a mod is a nuisance, I certainly wouldn't want to be one. I think the mods on here do okay, and you have to remember this is a mental health site. It's not like a soccer or ice hockey site where you can have a difference of opinion on a player etc. Say a paranoid schizophrenic said he stopped taking his medication because he thinks it's poison, the majority of people would persuade him to go back on the meds. Now all the mods on here would also probably persuade him to go back on the meds, is that being a sheep without your own opinion or just being sensible?

At the end of the day none of us are psychs, we only go on are own experiences or what we've read, so you can't say that the mods just all think the same because when it comes to a topic such as mental illness almost all of us think the same.

Yeah and is that a good thing?

I think when it comes to a topic such as mental illness the sensible approach is the best route.

If someone said stop taking your anti-depressants and do some exercise to boost your mood, that is some fair advise and could work, but what if it didn't and that person got worse and killed themselves?

You've got to bear in mind that nobody wants to be responsible (or think they're responsible) for someone else's death. Mental illness is a very touchy subject, and the mods or admins on here are just volunteers with their own lives, they don't need that burden on their shoulders.