What an interesting series of manipulative events this has turned out to be. Let's recap.
1st, two unhappy Armani patient result threads vanish from Hair Loss Help.
2nd, Farrel publicly states someone hacked his site and removed these posts.
3rd, hair loss help goes down for almost a month.
4th, a guy shows up here saying he hacked hair loss help and sees Armani paid Farrel to remove all the bad stuff about him.
5th, hair loss help returns and MANY controversial Armani posts disappear.
6th, I ask about it here along with others and Farrel hurls insults and accusations at me of being a 'fake poster'. But he says I won't be banned if I post my questions there.
7th, Farrel says he's going to restore the Armani threads and address these concerns on his forum in due time.
8th, when Lost my Swagger and Hopefull question Farrel on hair loss help about Armani issues and the disappearance of Pats who works for Armani, they get banned. Interesting how they get banned for exactly what I was promised NOT to get banned for. Now people can see why I didn't want to ask him there.
9th, Farrel makes an announcement that Armani and Co are no longer advertising there and blamed this forum for it.
10th, Farrel discontinues allowing any discussion about Armani on his forum.
I don't think it takes a genius to see what's really going on here. I think that Farrel removed the first two missing Armani posts himself and then his alibi was to post publicly that a hacker did it in order to save face and appear like the hero.
Then I think he and Armani had some sort of deal to eliminate a huge number of additional negative posts. Anyone who put Farrel under pressure to address these concerns were banned from his forum, or in my case, insulted and accused of being 'fake' since he doesn't know the account I use there to ban me. Now Farrel is trying to banish the issue by discontinuing any discussion about Armani and pinning the blame on this forum. I'm sure that Farrel is also stopping any discussion about Armani to avoid a lawsuit.
Dr. Armani has been highly controversial for years especially since he started doing all FUE. It's obvious that he's gotten a lot of backlash for it on many forums. I guess I can understand why their clinic wants to run and hide as much as possible at this point.
It seems that this forum is the only one to stand up to this clinic and all their BULLSH*T hype. I do see Pats doing his usual song and dance now over on HairSite.
Farrel,
Since you questioned why I haven't asked THIS forum why they've made certain decisions publicly:
I DO understand that every forum needs to remove posts and members now and again. You said this yourself on a thread you already removed. I haven't questioned ANY of your decisions for the last year and a half nor do I question this forum for a number of their decisions. But when forum moderation snowballs into a full blown agenda that hurts patients, you should expect that people are going to call you out on it. I'll see you on your forum, but you won't know who I am.