To say BB would be nothing without financial members is a bit of an overstatement, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate every single financial member on BellyBelly which contributes the cost. I continually put thousands of my own dollars into it not to mention ridiculous amounts of hours of time promoting and marketing it over the last few years, in order for there to be the great traffic we have today so advertisers will invest in it. So without THAT, it would be more accurate to say BellyBelly would be nothing.

I am all for support groups, however deviating traffic from BellyBelly was the main concern here for the Moderators, as this is how BellyBelly has been attracting good advertising dollars - we have great traffic stats. Sarah was just protecting that which I think is very admirable. We all protect what we work for and put so much of our time and energy into. So if you wish to have your yahoo groups etc that is fine, however it must be organised off the board. If what was said was taken the wrong way, then this happens sometimes on the internet and real-life - but it's much harder to give direct feedback to rectify that right away. So there's no need to attack about this and as per guidelines, discuss with the moderators.

We just cannot keep adding so many forums all the time, many people are already complaing about features having to be reduced, slowed down etc and the time moderation already involves for all our Moderators is huge. No-one realises how much time and effort this involves. Yes we are more strict (hence time consuming work) than some other forums, but I believe it's important and for those who genuinely want to be a part of a supportive, respectful community will not have a problem with that - because it does prevent lots of problems. It's my choice to do things this way.

Anyone else can email me if they have any further issues, this is not the place to continue to discuss this. Moving on...