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Moving up the Mental Health Hub

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DavidB3ck:

--- Quote from: ninwa on March 01, 2013, 03:57:15 pm ---We disabled the ability to remove your own posts because of a few selfish people who would make huge question threads that could have been useful to other members, and then delete them (maybe because they were SAC questions? or something).

Editing is disabled because when you edit, it comes up with << Last edited by [yourname] >> on the bottom, which defeats the purpose of anonymisation.

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*appends to giant to-do list*

Fyrefly:

--- Quote from: ninwa on February 08, 2013, 10:00:15 pm ---I agree, which is why I'm so reluctant to get rid of it altogether. In the first week I can see it's already helped a fair few people.

According to the lawyer I spoke to, the fact that we are primarily an educational website (i.e. we don't pretend to be focused on mental issues), and the fact that I put up that disclaimer, would all contribute to us having a good case. However, all it takes is one person to commit suicide after posting here and bam, you have a grieving family looking for someone to blame. Even if we had a good case, AN really does not have the resources to fund a legal action so all we can do is avoid it in the first place.

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There was an online-survey-for-money website that also had a forum feature. A member of the website posted on the forum about feeling depressed and that they were seriously comtemplating suicide. They did actually suicide shortly afterwards, it made national headlines and somehow the connection to this particular website was made. Since then, the forum feature has been completely removed, and the website rebranded itself under a new name.

I don't want to sway any decision here, but keeping the Mental Health Hub in its current state may very well come at the cost of AN itself.


--- Quote from: ninwa on February 08, 2013, 10:00:15 pm ---Any suggestions for what to rename it to? I like the "anonymous rant hub" idea.

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I like the idea of "Anonymous Advice Hub". It's less rant-y, more advice-y.

thushan:
Oh! We already changed it to "Personal Support Hub"

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