CIRANGLE patients - input wanted

Hey fellow Cirangle patients -

LapSF would like to know how you feel about the Obesity Help / Facebook / Twitter debacle of the past two days.  

Comment here:  http://www.facebook.com/LapSFDrCirangle

The guy *****sponded is misinformed (edit) about OH deleting the threads. They aren't deleting them, they are moving them to Rants and Raves. I responded but then I realized since it's a public page people on my fb page could see that I wrote on the LapSF page and I'd freakin out myself since it's a bariatric page soooo I couldn't say anything. But I just thought that if LapSF is looking for input they might want to get accurate input, not that I think any of this is ok...

LMFAO I totally just realized who "the guy" is!

 I haven't been reading posts for the past couple of days, but just saw Frisco's post on the same lines as this.  One thing the has me courious if it is true, that was the comment that LapSF bought this blog?   If so, I think that is really great.  When you go through the process of surgery at LapSF you get an account on a site hosted by Remedy, much like other doctor sites.   The remedy site has a forum / bulitin board, but it is not used.  I was really disaponted with the entire Remedy site and experience.   So, I turned to this forum.  Knowing that Dr. Cirangle and the team at LapSF is putting effort into this site make me happy.    I'm really happy the Dr. Cirangle is doing what he can to make sure his patients, as well as everybody interested in Bariatric Surgery, has an active and well moderated forum.

I don't believe that Dr. Cirangle has bought this site or even this forum.  He just pays money to advertise on it. Pretty much like all the other adds you see here.  It makes sense for him, since many people look specifically for a surgeon that specializes in VSG.  I mean, don't get me wrong, he does all four surgeries and goes over all four in his support groups, but VSG is something he is really known for and was one of the pioneers in. 

Hey Ruggie
Please tell us internet dummies where we can read the facebook/twitter stuff debacle. I don't do twitter at all and only have a minimal facebook page. I have read Frisco's post quoting carmelita. as the founder of the vsg maintenance forum i want to make a response but want to know my facts.  diane

Hi Diane -

In short, OH will "share" our goal, victories, and stories at their discretion on their Twitter and Facebook pages, and the Facebook posts will include a picture of your avatar.  Some folk freak out because they are afraid of being outed at work/home, others are mad of privacy issues, others are mad that it seems to be a violation of their terms of service (it says they need our written permission to share information), and finally others are mad because they refuse to engage in discussion or respond to questions.

The reason that you haven't seen much of this is that they immediately move threads discussing this to the Unmoderated Rants & Raves forum.  If you look, you'll see dozens of threads about it all dumped there.

Thanks Ruggie. I had never read that rants and raves forum before .  yikes, sorta scarry.  Diane

So I go to the Rants and Raves forum and OH has this posted:

"Posts made on another ObesityHelp message board that contain a link, discuss or make reference to the Unmoderated Forum (Rants and Raves) are not allowed and will be removed."

I find it fascinating that they have a forum so they can dump what they don't like into it, and yet threaten to remove any reference to said forum. Sort of like they are trying to bury the issue, IMO.

Apparently, it is now The Forum That Shall Not Be Named.