Tall please stay

Yes, there is the other forum, but that web site is far more difficult to navigate. I always go to your page on this forum to see your last ten posts--I cannot do that on the other. I look at who has posted last on each topic and select it if you are the last one to post--I cannot do that on the other. In other words, on the other forum I would have to look at every post if you had contributed, and I do not have the time. So, if not for the moderators, stay for the web master. Thanks.

Tall Allen, please stay on this forum. You have helped me a tremendous amount from coping with the initial shock of hearing the cancer diagnosis to making a decision about treatment. Your insights and knowledge are invaluable.

If you decide to leave nevertheless... thank you for everything.

Please stay.

I never join in on the "please don't go" threads on this forum. If a person is ready to move on, I don't think anonymous pleas will change minds. I will say that I personally have gotten invaluable advise and pointers from Allen and that I would be sad to see him go.

I don't know whether the moderators have unevenly applied the rules, or what went on behind the scenes. I have always considered this site to be well moderated and less contentious than most. We have a lot of long-timers on here, and as with most things familiarity often breeds contempt. Everyone brings their own perspective and after a while you know who will offer support, and who will offer stark facts and both are invaluable.

Allen, if you must go, I wish you all the best, and you will most certainly be missed. I do hope to see you here again, though.

Donna

TA, you are are the single best source of information on this forum!!

Please stay!!!

Food for thought-> Make TA a moderator

But yes, I do hope you stick around.

Allen, our disagreement aside, i am going to join in and say i hope you will consider staying. For the good of members, now and in the future who come here for advice from knowledgeable people.
I am familiar with the other site, as others have said, it is not as robust, or well organized as this one. If you leave here, you will leave a lot of people with real needs in a lurch. If you are truly here out of a desire to help people, which i believe you are, you should stay.

We are all here to help and support others. The rest is just BS distractions.

"Ditto, Allen (TA) is the crown jewel of this board, with him gone the board's value to me has diminished to almost zero."

if he's the only reason you're here you should exchange emails. this board wasn't made great when when TA arrived. it was always great.

and I don't mean that as a slight to TA. TA, if your goal is to help people you're a huge success here. I suggest that you look at your part in this affair and reconsider. move past this and carry on.

Flat out, point blank- I would NEVER have gotten through this without you! You have been there for me day in and day out no matter how late at night, no matter what time of year (even when you didn't know you were).

If I were a football player running off the field after winning the superbowl I wouldn't be shouting I'm going to Disneyland I'd be shouting I'm going to meet TA!!!

I'm not even kidding you got me through this. I value you very much.

PLEASE DON'T GO.

Allan,
I have read your posts for years on another forum and always wished you would post on HW. You were like Mr. Spock on Star Trek, always sticking to the facts and never letting emotions rule your better judgement. Over the last few months I've noticed a shift in that you are taking things more personal than you used to and posting on subjects that are very subjective instead of your usual objective analysis. Please take this as an observation and not a criticism.
This forum is valued for both its knowledge and its support. We have plenty of members that give support, but only one that imparts the knowledge that you have. Please reconsider your decision.

What did I miss? Why are you leaving TA? Whatever it is, I do count on you for information.

I have been a big researcher in the past. It is too much for me now. I appreciate and trust your advice.

Tall Allen said...
Thanks for all of your good thoughts and good wishes. I haven't given up on this site completely, but there would have to be changes.

Nothing lasts forever and sometimes changes happen even when we don't like them. When it becomes an overwhelming burden to work in one place or it's obvious that you can do better work in another place.

It's time to move on.

I do not think any member should...other than a moderator... be allowed to negotiate changes in policy in exchange for their presence...its like holding the forum hostage to basically any thing they want,.if you follow the logic to its logical conclusion... TA is as sharp as a tack...but no one...no one is indispensable...hubris...too much...no one is above the law in any aspect of any institution...I am sorry but my instincts on this are correct...do not be fooled by.buzz words...ad hominin..its.poppy cock...balderdash...my concern has nothing to do with him personally...its not words..its actions...if an action is wrong....one should not hide behind words... a bridge too far...heck just make em a moderator...get rid of the other three...Im sure Peter can control him ...not!!!...Heck lets keep Prato and then we can have some real drama...prato and TA...no more..."shall we play a game"...I have some advice for TA...willy nilly...stay here...go elsewhere...matters not...it will not go well for you in the final act...it never does...never will...forum do your thing...the magnitude of this drama is petty...you are overplaying a card in a game of go fish or old maid....wake up to you...now on another note 3 5's n a Jack...when you post something like your first paragraph...you indict the whole forum on your charge....name the few or the one or the two...I sense it is but one...btw...I am...the other Jack!!.......Jack!!!... any way...regardless...the forum will survive...it all comes out...always...I wont be going anywhere untill the fates allow...count on that..my advice to TA is just that advice...advice I would give to anyone...do not...do not make it any more than that...advice...I say that not be cause I do not trust TA..but because I do more now than ever ....the tells scream in silence...the irony here is this scene is being played out right now in other places with diametricl opposed players..seperated only by dimensions...for a place that seems adverse to politics for its members...the leadership is arduously swimming in it...thanks for the ear...go home to your wives and children ...there will be no hanging tonite...