Ummm, not sure if I should make this public knowledge, but they did make a “Nuts” forum… and called it “SDMB”.
Regards,
digs
[*GP = *Grammar Pedant; *TS/f = *Thin Skin re: feminism; NHEaaC = Not Hugged Enough as a Child; = Dad Who Thinks Being in a Band 40 Years Ago Means He’s Still Cool]
And you’d be feeding them, while at the same time pissing off sincere posters by labeling their threads, and also feeding into the fears of hypochondriacs.
Way to go!
I think it’s a terrific idea! After all, there isn’t NEARLY enough stigma attached to mental health issues… why don’t we slap up a bunch of extra hoops to jump through for anyone who had been honest enough to come forward and talk about their issues?
Myself, I suffer from IBMMS (Ignorant Bullcrap Makes Me Sarcastic) Perhaps you’ve heard of it? I’m told there is no cure.
Tell me, how quickly do you think this board would be sued into oblivion by automatically posting claims of a person’s mental health status when they post in this forum?
Yes, it’s a silly idea, but as noted by the OP, it wasn’t really serious.
But the answer to your question is “never”. Because it’s not “a person’s” mental health status that is hypothetically being flagged, it’s the status of an anonymous and (theoretically) unidentifiable anonymous denizen of the Interwebs. And it’s a status that would either be self-identified anyway, or else assigned on the basis of evidence. Just like user names will show up with designations like “Suspended” or “Banned”, I think the OP is suggesting somewhat tongue-in-cheek that it might be amusing to have user names that show up with a designation like “Idiot”. I actually quite like the idea. In fact it could be expanded – there are many other attributes worth noting – we could have “Idiot”, “Pompous Ass”, “Habitual Liar”, “Pretentious Douchebag”, and lots of others, nominated by popular acclaim and vetted by the mods. “Obsessive Lunatic” might be one of the more popular nominations.
I consider myself mentally ill, I have a diagnosis and see a Psychiatrist etc. but why should you believe me, or why should it matter?
As pointed out up thread, it is fairly easy to discern when a person is wacko. One can always ignore the post, or if you really want to waste your time and engauge with such folk… A common saying has it thus; doing the samething over and over and expeting the same result…is insane.
I myself don’t post much, usually someone else has said something similar to what I might have said, only their formulation is much better, more succinct, more infomed and probably has fewer spelling errors…
I want to be alerted in the OP if the thread is started by an asshole. Personally, I think being a major league asshole is a mental health problem. Is it defined as such by mental health professionals? I doubt it.
Why limit it to those who have acknowledged they have mental health issues? I think they are far more reliable than those who are nuts but refuse to admit it. We could set up a panel of Very Smart People to decide who gets the Napoleon-in-a-straightjacket icon.