We're the tops!

[SacredHeart]

Dave, you are a troll, and I claim my ?5. 😉

Ahhh man. And I was trying to be all polite as well. 🙄

 

[Sharpe]

No mate. Not a Troll just a diabetic who wants more than this site can give.
Hope you will all be happy, sned me your address and I'll send you another ?5.

Might help with your education !

Dave.

 

[SilentAssassin1642]

I agree with most of what has been said. It's just it does come over as a tad superior when really it is a chat place. Now, if you had compared like with like I might have bought that.

I am all for anywhere that supports fellow diabetics, surely that is what it is all about. However I have read things here and thought that's not correct OR why would you want to do that. Very often nobody picks up on it. Shame, because there is some good stuff here. It just feels a bit like some blogs I have read around the net, not always what they are cracked up to be.

So, don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking it. It just isn't what I thought it was going to be. I need facts/figures/long posts packed full of information. Unfortunately I don't see it here. That's one of the reasons I don't get around here much. (Thank god for that I can hear you say).

Well, I shall sign off now. Leave you to it, not sure if I will be back. Who knows.

Northerner - you ARE a Politician ! I knew it. 😉

Health to you all.

Dave

as others have said, this place isn't all about facts and figures and all that stuff - its here for support. And everyone here is so supportive and HELPFUL. For instance, without Adrienne's help, I wouldn't be carb counting now. There is advice here for those who need it, and it isn't all hard facts and figures which is nice - hard, cold facts and figures can be very off putting.

What Northerner was trying to get across was how SUPPORTIVE this place is, and how active we are for a smaller community. It isn't all about the number of members a place has, bt rather the help and support you can get from somewhere like this.

It's the same with blogs. I don't write my blog to spew out facts and figures about diabetes, I write it to put across my experiences with Type 1. And just because you don't like a place, or a blog or whatever, doesn't mean that everyone feels that way. An opinion is neither right not wrong after all.

I do hope you don't feel pushed away. Maybe if you ever need any support in the future then you will feel like logging in.

 

[SilentAssassin1642]

No mate. Not a Troll just a diabetic who wants more than this site can give.
Hope you will all be happy, sned me your address and I'll send you another ?5.

Might help with your education !

Dave.

miow........

 

[Northerner]

No mate. Not a Troll just a diabetic who wants more than this site can give...

I can only surmise that what you are looking for doesn't exist. If you'd already found it you wouldn't have come looking for it here. I hope you find it one day, or maybe the cure will come before then and you will no longer need it.

 

[SilentAssassin1642]

Ok, having read back with some of these points, I want to make a few points myself.

Sharpe - what you are saying is just...its just not on really. Obviously you came here looking for SOMETHING, and if all you are looking for is cold hard facts then this isn't really somewhere you should be now is it? That, and making snide comments at the forum admin isn't really on either. This place is a brilliant forum, and I for one probably would have totally given up if it wasn't for the HELP and SUPPORT I've gotten here.

It seems as if all you are doing now is making trouble. And it's starting to annoy me. And I'm certainly not going to be polite about it either.

Also, you seem to be dirtying the name of Colonal Richard Sharpe. Shame on you 😡

 

[SilentAssassin1642]

I suggest you let the door hit you on the way out 😡

 

[SacredHeart]

Bye then!

I'm sorry, but if you said Northerner was 'googling his own site', then I'm afraid you DON'T know how google works, sorry! I won't sort out statistics, because I don't claim to be any good at that sort of thing. I'm not great with numbers, but that doesn't make me any less of a valid contributor to this site.

If you've got this attitude, I don't think anyone will miss you. But, as has been said, if one day you feel like you NEED a bit of support, I'm sure we'll all still be here, going strong.

Have a nice day yourself 🙂

 

[rossi_mac]

Seems we're not all after the same thing, support this place sure gives fact and figures well fair point Dave, but also that can be seen to be dangerous as we are not qualified to give out such advise, all we can do is share our own opinions and experiences. Hope you pop in again Dave if you feel you need some "support" or help us all with some facts. Health to you too,

Rossi

 

[Andy HB]

Northener.

Whilst your talent in putting together the Excel Document is admirable and I also admire your way of putting forward the view that this Forum is the tops, I have to say, it is very questionable. A great idea to promote the site though. 🙂

However, the statistics you quote are definitely skewed here. Take this as an example:

If you take a site with a 1000 members and only ten of them post regularly then that is only 1% of people posting.

Take a website where they have only 100 members and only ten post regularly then that works out at 10% of people posting.

Now using your logic you would say that the site with 100 members is the best. Not so. it's all in the figures. It's what I term 'fuzzy logic'.
You should have been a Politician. 🙂

I could give more examples, but I think you get my drift.

You can believe what you like and nobody here seems to have looked into your figures. That is what is wrong here, surely there are highly intelligent people here, why has nobody questioned your use of the figures and even worse your totally wrong conclusions. They are misleading and have no relevance whatsoever to the real World and the facts.

If you do a Google UK search on most/any diabetic related subject then the first response you usually get is DUK or Diabetes.co.uk, not this support forum. I think that speaks volumes as to who are the top sites. I am on several forums and find this one just a chat corner. If I want up to date information, facts etc then this place is not my first port of call. Too shallow in most of the answers. I usually go to Diabetes.co.uk. A great site for facts/figures and posts from members packed full of information and experiences. Not, as here full of whoo hoo, yippee, great, fantastic etc etc. and posts which are just chatter !

Horses for courses. This is a good friendly place but don't let us make it out to be something it really isn't. I hope that you take my constructive criticism in the manner that it is intended. If we are going to brag about something, let's make sure it's correct !

Dave.

I haven't read the rest of the posts yet, but whilst I might agree that Northerner didn't do a complete analysis of the statistics involved, I really couldn't give a monkeys!! 😉

Andy

 

[xxlou_lxx]

Some forums give all of this, obviously if the knowledge and advice here isn't as good then perhaps you should tell people when they think of joining that you won't get much out of here other than hugs and kisses.



Dave.

I think all he was wanting was hugs and kisses? Yeah that must of been it..... 😛

 

[Northerner]

p.s i just wanted to add i have on a few occasions now brought up the subject of byetta and i hope no one thinks thats is not a "worthy" subject.

Obviously he did not bother to look and see that it has been discussed Steff, on more than one occasion. I went by diabetes.co.uk to see what he considered to be a 'good' site. It's actually a commercially-run site, looking to market various products to diabetics in addition to providing information pages and a forum. Their forum isn't much different to ours, just not as busy, and the types of posts are largely similar to ours, so I'm not quite sure why he feels it's 'better'. Oh, and if you have diabetes and you are looking for support then typing diabetes support into google gives us as the top link out of 23,400,000 matches, all of which contain those two words. Perhaps he doesn't use google because it doesn't offer what he is looking for in a search engine...😉

 

[shiv]

Perhaps he doesn't use google because it doesn't offer what he is looking for in a search engine...😉

i lol'd

[grrr, why can't i post a message that's less than 10 characters long?!]

 

[Northerner]

i lol'd

[grrr, why can't i post a message that's less than 10 characters long?!]

Because it wouldn't be long enough and fact-filled enough to satisfy the likes of Sharpe!😉

 

[Hazel]

Well Alan

I never thought I would see you criticise another member, but I have to say you are well right to do so

This is a support site and one which offers a life line to folks who otherwise might not question their medical support teams.

No question is ever laughed at - no problem is without a solution

 

[bev]

Because it wouldn't be long enough and fact-filled enough to satisfy the likes of Sharpe!😉

But - do you know this for a fact Northey - or are you making it up.........😉

 

[am64]

well i joined this forum after probably my lowest of low weekends 7 months ago ....i googled 'diabetic support forums' ...and ended up here very easily. I looked around for a while was totally gobsmacked by the SUPPORT ...so i joined and i very quickly realised that i wasnt alone with my questions and fears ....

If i need straight up factual advice like 'what are the intereactions of medications or how precisely insulin works i go to those sites that have the fancy animation that explian exactly what the medicial proffession are currently thinking .....'

Comming here has educated me for example i wouldnt have ever met for example parents of kids with T1 ...teenagers ..young, old ....i wouldnt have understood about pumping ...or become friends with you all ...i wouldnt have shared the joy of the babies born to diabetic parents and how difficult it can be ..or shared the frustration of having a 'blip' i could have never appreciated 'how lucky i am '
Support is holistic here ...because Diabetes is not a singular thing ..everyday life throws up its ups and downs ...and there is usually someone here to support and point in the right direction ...
sharpe ...check out the other forums maybe you'll find somewhere to be comfortable and by the way BIG HUGGS🙂

 

[rawtalent]

I'm thinking of starting a new site.

It's called 'Let's all argue about Diabetes'.
I know at least 1 person who wants to join!🙄

 

[Northerner]

I'm thinking of starting a new site.

It's called 'Let's all argue about Diabetes'.
I know at least 1 person who wants to join!🙄

To be honest, there are many such sites already, unfortunately! 🙂 We don't have to be drones and we don't have to agree with each other, but nor should we deride what brings comfort and hope to people, particularly if we have nothing 'better' to offer.

 

[glodee]

This is fab! Great news - and not surprising. One thing that struck me immediately was the supportive feel, and that people were truly interacting in a friendly way. Way to go!!

Guy's - I wrote this thinking I was joining after about 2 or 3 posts. Ouch. That'll teach me to read the WHOLE thread. Doesn't change what I feel - great supportive site with wonderful peeps on here.