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Tyranny and Mutation

The recent political happenings have left me feeling upset and depressed enough to actually get round to writing this. As a quick warning this post is a request for comment and discussion on Mental Nurse site moderation. If this topic is of no interest to you feel free to wait until the next edition of TWIM which is certain to be better.

This post was in part inspired by the recent banning of a well known contributor to Mental Nurse, but is not specifically about that. I feel that some discussion on the topic will probably be useful in guiding how we go about dealing with similar issues in the future.


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Site News and Problems

Hello Everyone,

Just to update you on some problems Mental Nurse has been having recently.

The Forums

The forums died following a badly implemented upgrade. Entirely my fault but effectively unfixable without me just deleting a bunch of database tables and recreating a blank forum. I do not want to make a blank forum as some forum software is being developed by the creators of wordpress and i would prefer to use this. If at all possible when the new forums are put up I will try to transfer over some of the more important threads.

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Mental’s New Year Message

Here is part two of my Christmas message. I have very little time in which to write it so it may be a bit briefer than the earlier one.


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Mental’s Christmas Message 2008

A followup to Mental’s Christmas Message.

Welcome to Mental’s Christmas Message 2008. Hopefully no one is reading this on the days itself and you are all merrily tucking in to turkey or your festive food of choice.

For those that can not be bothered reading a very long summary of the year post here is the important bit. I would like to thank everyone who over the previous year has made Mental Nurse the most wonderful blog by a mental health nurse with multiple authors ever. Particularly to all the post authors who have given of their time and effort to give us such entertainment and thought provokingness. Also all those who have had a guest post published. I especially enjoyed the Shrinks’ contribution. Also to all the commenters both old and new. Though oldschoolbaby is on the naughty list for not giving us a full post this year. All of us at Mental Nurse hope you have the best Christmas period possible and for those working the day itself we hope no one says the Q word.

I think this year the site has gone from strength to strength, despite some wobbles, and hope the next year will continue to see it grow and improve.

As always if anyone thinks they have anything to contribute please leave a comment, we are looking for new authors. We also would like to hear any ideas on how to improve the site and make it better. My current plan is to write a gateway page with links to the best and most important posts all suggestions welcome. This should help new readers get used to the way we do things.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Read on after the break for the first half of the year in Review.

Mental Nurse.


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