So I've been thinking...
We use this forum for free and get and give support and advice through it. So perhaps we should be grateful to DCUK for running it for us?
We post for free to get and give support and advice through the forum. Maybe DCUK should be grateful to us? They do make a profit from the site and it wouldn't be anything without its members.
Maybe it would be good to see the promised improvements actually happen? There have been so many of these threads detailing various problems and I haven't seen any improvements over the last few months. Myself and a friend had an issue with the forum over a year back and we were promised that action was to be taken and that all would be well. It never was, even though we were told it had been and that my friend could post. I felt very let down at having been promised something that never happened back then. So I am sceptical about whether the proposed improvements will ever happen. We have been told they will so many times what makes this one different? As long as the money keeps coming in why should 'they' care about us?
I sometimes read threads here about couch potato T2s. I suppose that's me then, as I sit here for hours redoing posts that I have lost because I was logged out before pressing 'post reply'.
Perhaps I just need some fresh air...
Zand - Personally, I would say I owe the forum more than it owes me.
For almost 4 years I have been an enthusiastic forum user, and have observed delivery of the T2, Hypo and Low Carb Programmes, as well as sterling work on in various forms of education and collaborations. I don't know the figures, but a great many more people read the site content without contributing or joining in any way.
To date, I can state that I have not been obliged, invited or asked to pay a penny to DCUK in return for the investments they have made into diabetes and for diabetics. I consider DCUK's commercial interests to be none of my business.
If this forum didn't exist, I and my diabetic diagnosis would be in an altogether different place.
As stated, those are my personal views and not posted in any role I may hold with DCUK.
Now as DCUKMod; if you had an issue a year ago that you feel remains unresolved, please send me a PM detailing it and I will investigate .
Edited to remove duplicated text due to shuffling things around before posting, first time around.