First to 1981, I too apologize that your thread has been temporarily taken over. However, since the majority of responses from the questionable "Anderson C" have been on this topic, I felt it was necessary to address him here and poll the opinion of our members. Of course, since this is your thread, your opinion too is highly appreciated. I also promise that we'll bring this thread back on target shortly :-).

Thanks to all the fair and thoughtful feedback everyone has provided me with thus far on handling "Anderson C". Whereas we certainly want to provide a free and open environment for patients and physicians, once we conclude a member has an unfair agenda (no matter who he/she is - patient, doctor, or clinic), it's time for them to go.

Based on your feedback, I've agreed to give him another warning. Below, I've pasted the private message I sent him to give him a chance to either A) substantiate his blanket statements with facts and evidence or B) cease and desist. Ultimately, I believe that all genuine members will desire either sharing their personal experience or helping other members with their questions/concerns. Targeting a particular doctor or patient and making antagonistic remarks is far from appropriate and continuing to do so even after the warnings, will be considered "agenda driven".

Therefore, at your request, let's give him one more chance - which was my option "B" above, and the most highly voted upon.

I sent him the below private message which now counts as his private and public warning:

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Anderson,

I've stated publicly already that all members are welcome to share genuine experiences and opinions on our forum. However, from your first to last post to date, you've been trolling and targeting Dr. Feller with unsubstantiated blanket statements. Whereas I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt and consider you a legitimate poster, to date, you haven't given me any good reason to believe you're not out to unfairly malign a good surgeon's name. Therefore, I will give you one last chance.

If you expect to be a part of this community, I expect the following:

1) If you are going to continue making blanket statements about Dr. Feller, I expect you to back them up with facts and evidence (which should include links). I also want you to do this in a single thread, preferably, one you start (not multiple ones). I also expect you to do this respectfully. This will give other patient members a chance to offer their feedback. But once you've put it all out there, I expect you not to beat a dead horse - that is - I don't want you to continue to malign him just because you aren't his biggest fan. Therefore, this does not give you free reign to continue this discussion forever. Once you made your points and have an opportunity to discuss it, that's it!

2) I expect you to either share your hair transplant experience/photos, ask your own questions, or post to genuinely help patients with their questions, concerns, etc - this should include topics other than those involving Dr. Feller. I believe all genuine members will ultimately do one of these.

However, if you continue to make blanket statements about Dr. Feller without substantiating them, and prove you have no interested in genuinely helping the patient members of our community, I'll assume you have an agenda to unfairly malign Dr. Feller and your posting privileges will be suspended.

So you understand our guidelines for providing a fair and balanced discussion for patients and physicians, see Maintaining a Safe and Fair Environment on our Forum for Patients and Physicians.

Your cooperation is anticipated and expected,

Bill

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Yeah I could spill the beans on ALOT of fun and games that have went on on this, hlp and Pbs old forum. Well the ones on here were dealt with
The guy didnt go on all of Dr Fellers posts dogging him so maybe hes just an unhappy patient

I also beleive that Dr. Feller is truly a gifted surgeon, does pretty solid work. That being said, I don't include him in my top 5, top 10 definitaly!!!If this guy is just giving his "opinion" and has nothing to gain, (if it can ever be proven), then let him post whatever he beleives good or bad. That's life. IMHO...


Just a thought from the peanut gallery...

Kaounis,

That's exactly the point. But it looks real bad when a new poster is targeting a particular person (doctor or patient) with negative blanket statements. This makes it appear as if this poster does have an agenda and something to gain.

If this poster is genuine, he'll begin to either provide legitimate feedback for his claims or move onto other topics not related to Dr. Feller. Continuing to follow and target one person is the equivalent of internet stalking, and though there may or may not be a law to prevent this, we won't tolerate it on our forum.

I hope this clarifies why we're making a serious issue out of it.

Bill

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I say if he doesnt answer his posts should be removed

I agree Bill. I beleive that although the internet has been a great tool for everyone, sometimes people tend to forget that behind every post, there is an actual human being...it's so hard to filter the "true" from the crap. That is why I beleive everyone should be given the benefit of the doubt at least once. So yeah, if he doesn't answer his posts terminate his a--.......


Just a thought from the peanut gallery....

Bill --
I'm as diplomatic as the next guy, but this Anderson guy needs to get off of this forum.
If I thought there was even a one percent chance that this guy was simply stating his honest opinion, then I would agree that it it is obviously his right to do so. I think it is blatantly obvious though, that this guy is just attacking. Frankly, he isn't even very good at it. If he's a shill for a doctor, it's unfortunate that that doctor couldn't even find a shill who could write a coherent sentence. He seems to think that he's going to magically change everybody's opinion of what they're looking at by telling us to "use our eyes." He's bringing nothing intelligent or insightful to the discussion.
The guy is also making VERY serious accusations by saying that there are patients following "scripts." In fact, with his supposed "journalism background" he should know that those sort of accusations are libelous.

Dear members,

Thanks for all your feedback on how you feel we should handle "Anderson C".

Since this poster has chosen not to substantiate his claims, i agree with the members that suggested removing his offensive and unsubstantiated posts since they serve no purpose but to defame and libel Dr. Feller's good name and hard earned reputation.

Additionally, since many posts on this thread in reply to Anderson won't make sense anymore, I will need to remove some of those as well.

Over the next day or so, I will begin cleaning up this thread and remove unfair and unsubstantiated posts and any replies to him since they no longer make sense. I will however, keep several of the posts showing how we collectively chosen how to handle this poster.

Thanks for your feedback and support in this matter,

Bill

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best of luck! thats pretty cool you didnt have to shave your head all the way haha

keep us updated!

Bill - good work I have been impressed with how rare this kind of thing is on this forum. I went on an forum unrelated to hair loss recently and the moderator had not contributed to it for months!