Research Journalism Student Looking For Someone Willing To Share Their Story

[ClairBear226]

Okay. I'll be the one to say it. Nobody else around here seems to have the f-ing gonads, so I will. What kind of jerk lurks around a board where people with PTSD are trying to help each other? You aren't dealing with this, you aren't supporting someone with this, and we aren't f*cking guinea pigs. It's hard enough to talk about the kind of traumas we've dealt with without assholes like you reading over our shoulder. It's exactly people like you that keep me from being able to talk about mine. What the hell is wrong with you? You're causing damage here where there has already been enough done.

I've really got a problem with you being here, gleaning our personal stories for your own project, Gauthier. It makes me incredibly glad that I've limited how much I've talked about on this forum, and positively assures I will continue to limit what I write here. Coming here with a survery or with specific questions is one thing, particularly if you're a researcher trying to help us. But I've met schmucks like you that live by the standard, "If it bleeds, it leads". You're fishing for whoever has the best tale of woe that'll sell your idea. You've assured that one poster here won't be forthcoming, because I don't know where you are or what you're reading. I've been told time and time again to "get it out" and "talk about it". WHY would anyone in their right mind do that, when the l ikes of you is hiding around a corner?

Uh, guys? Am I the only one that sees a problem with this? Seems VERY unethical to me. For all we know, he's already gone into the diary pages of any of you and pulled stuff to write about, or any of the other thousands of posts where we've all poured our heart out. Leagally, I'm not sure he'd even need permission, since this forum is public. He could probably take anything he wants, and for that matter, he may already have. You can't really tell me I'm the only one here that feels completely violated having this guy read over their shoulder. I thought I was coming here to talk to other people that have PTSD, not somebody pulling my personal information to use for his own benefit.

Gauthier, for the record, hear me loudly and clearly. You have NO permission from me to use, take, copy or print a single word of anything I've written anywhere on this forum. Thanks a hell of a lot, Jerk. I thought I'd found somewhere I could actually talk about this crap.

 

[ClairBear226]

Ultimately for this to work I would have to find someone around Massachusetts willing to share their experience in person. Some of my focus involve current treatment options, and their effectiveness.

REALLY? Anybody here crazy enough to meet up with Stalker Gauthier in person? THINK people!

 

[LoyalOne]

You have NO permission from me to use, take, copy or print a single word of anything I've written anywhere on this forum.

Especially because I am mostly here as a supporter, and have said things about another person's experiences, as well as my own. I am not on board with anything I have said about him being reprinted or shared, in any way. That's a double betrayal.

 

[ClairBear226]

Gauthier, I've learned that you did something similar on the Combat PTSD board, and it seems you ignored multiple requests to leave. You were finally removed from that board by Anthony. I don't know exactly what you said there to tick those guys off, but let me be very clear that I see your presence here as violating. It would be no different than if you sat in the back of a PTSD group, or a rape support group, or a combat vet group taking notes, then sprung on them that you want to broadcast their pain all over the airwaves. The fact that you've specifically indicated that you want to meet a PTSD survivor -and therefore possibly the victim of a violent crime - in person is frightening.

Let me have the honor of being the first to ask you to leave. How long will it take you on THIS board to respect that request?

Administrators, I respectfully request that the same thing be done here as on the Combat board. I have no patience or appreciation for a stalker who wants to make a buck off my story or anyone else's. Can he please be banned from here, as well as the SSA board?

 

[Gauthier]

It would be unethical for me to use anything posted on this board without the author's consent.

I have limited my visits to this forum to the two threads I've posted my request in - this should be easily verifiable by forum administrator(s).

It was not my intent to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

If other members want me stop login in, I will.

 

[LoyalOne]

Making an account on the vets' site without being a vet was in and of itself a violation of the rules of that board. I think that was the first kick to the hornet's nest.

 

[ClairBear226]

Does the same thing apply here, Loyal? I've been here for over a year. Can't remember what questions were asked when I signed up, but I understood this place to be one where people that either have PTSD or support someone that does, can go for help. I don't feel like I want to share any part of myself on here anymore, and it was hard enough already.

Loyal, do you happen to know when this guy posted this same stuff on the Combat board? Did he come over here when he got canned there, or did he do it around the same time?

 

[LoyalOne]

He posted here and there the same day, it looks like. The vets jumped him posthaste for the rules violation. I read over there every now and again to see if there is something that helps me understand my Sgt.'s POV.

My basic first thought was more about the rules violation on that board, but if posters feel there is a moral violation here as well, that is different. I see your point about not being a fan of data mining creepers.

 

[ClairBear226]

So do I understand this correctly, Loyal? This guy went over to that board and lied to a bunch of combat vets to gain access to their personal information? Meanwhile, over here we've just let it slide. GREAT.

It was not my intent to make anyone feel uncomfortable. If other members want me stop login in, I will.

Gauthier, how many people will it take? Because it seems to me that if you had any value system in place whatsoever, it would bother you greatly to know how violated you've made one person feel. One person, who is trying very hard to put her life back together. Or is one person not enough "bleed" for you?

As I see it, the best thing you can do here is to make your apologies, bow out gracefully, and move on.

 

[ClairBear226]

It would be unethical for me to use anything posted on this board without the author's consent.

Funny, hearing a commentary on ethics from a guy that lied to a bunch of combat vets sworn to fight the very rights you depend upon to do your job. "Freedom of the press" is what keeps you employed, and you lied to the very people that protect that right. And you expect anyone here to believe you know what ethics are?

 

[amethist]

I am going to lock this thread for now, so no more comments can be made.

It will be looked at and a decision will be made when Anthony or Nicolette have chance to deal with it.

Amethist

 

[anthony]

Members need to stop trying to be administrators, especially across forums. Nobody was lied to that I know off, the combat forum simply has a standing rule, you are a veteran, nothing else. The person got banned from the other board.

Problem solved.

As for data mining. This forum is firstly public, and the information is very clearly copyright to myself. So if anyone was ever stupid enough to replicate information from this site without my consent, then they may be facing local legal proceedings, as you aren't immune from copyright infringement regardless of your location within the world.

Saying that... this sites information is expressly consented to search engines for spidering, which I do control, so anything you post in a public area of this forum is searchable in Google and other search engines. Copyright doesn't stop because Google index this site...

If I am not mistaken, the member is asking for members to talk directly with him, nothing else. They have not said they're going to use information or such from here without consent... nothing, so please stop making things up and creating issues that don't actually otherwise exist.