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Originally Posted by coalsoffire

I have been absent from both here & any church meetings. I do not experience this place (or churches) to be women friendly, in general. I kind of want to say something about the shattered postings which I just read. Shattered means shattered. I have some sympathy for her, in light of where she was developmentally. I also have sympathy for the ears here who were offended and understand why. Are there any co-moderators here? Just a suggestion, but a mature female co-moderator might have been able to communicate better with shattered. Is shattered completely banned now from this site?

I'm sorry to hear that you feel that the Forum is not women friendly. After all, our banner says "A safe, open place", and this absolutely includes the women/sisters among us. We do have a number of women as registered members, some who have participated quite a bit, although not lately. A couple of these women have been invited to assist in moderation, but for their own reasons have chosen not to take on that responsibility. I do agree with you that "Shattered" is in desperate need of fellowship and counselling with a mature female. The problem is that an open forum is not the proper venue for this particular kind of fellowship and counselling. I think Igzy, our current Admin, gave us all a very comprehensive presentation of the situation in a special thread he created here: http://localchurchdiscussions.com/vB...ead.php?t=3502

"Shattered" is not technically banned due to the fact that she never actually registered, she merely posted under that name as a guest. She was invited to register, but decided that she just wanted to give us a one-way rant. Our admin tried to give her as much leeway as was reasonable, but she made it clear that she was not interested in actual two-way discussions, but rather just to use the forum as virtual soundboard. Again, I would urge you to read what Igzy posted in the thread I referenced above.

When this forum was fist started, I created a sub-forum entitled "Martha and Mary's House" which is a specially designated password protected forum board for sisters only. You can get the password from Nell or I can have the forum system send it to you. I think this may be a proper venue for Shattered if she wants to register. This will have to be cleared through Igzy first.