I sort of left for a while when I was very busy and got on just fine, but have just come back in the last couple of days. Sometimes I found that the boards were consuming my evenings and I was neglecting P and my life in general.
I'm very sad that people are leaving a board like this because of others' opinions/views etc. We have had this conversation many times before- if you don't like a post don't read it, or don't follow it after you click the first time. Sometimes a post will not have a subject that you can tell if it is something that would be offensive to you when you click in to read it but it's easy to close the window.
This board is first and foremost a support board, remember that, people come here looking for support in all areas of their lives.
However, given the younger people on the boards these days I do think that there are topics we shouldn't discuss here. Private messaging (as Linz suggested) would be great. Can we do locked threads or more than one way conversations where you can invite people to help or something so that we could all chip in.
Oh yeah, I'm liberal too, What about new forum called "Liberals" or "Controversial Topics that are likely to offend" I AM JOKING, some things belong here, some don't, use common sense everyone.
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I AM JOKING, some things belong here, some don't, use common sense everyone. 
