Dr Steve
07-14-2008, 01:30 PM
Ok, anyone who has paid any attention to this forum has certainly noticed that I have not been a very "present" moderator. Over the holidays I cleaned out the inbox, and I cleaned it out again just now. I feel the weight of these questions every day, and more and more guilty when I don't get the time to get in here to answer them. I feel that I have let down the rf.net community in my slack approach to this forum and have decided to cease operation of the question and answer forum.
Being a part of the rf.net community has been a really positive experience for me...i've never been part of anything like this before and it has been amazing. Doing "Weird Medicine" and everything that goes with it has affected my personal life in a negative way, by increasing my stress level, draining my disposable finances, and affecting my marriage. It feeds my narcissistic tendencies as well, which is something I've been working on in therapy for years and I see a lot of backsliding because of my incessant checking of emails, forums, twitter, and facebook. I really want to do a good job on the questions here in the rf.net forum and just can't do it and survive. It all has to stop until I get better.
For now, we're recording Weird Medicine once a month which I can handle (we do two shows at a time) and we have plans for the other two weeks each month that I think everyone will really like. If we can afford it, we'll do some LIVE shows from NYC once a year or from Nashville 2-3 times a year. Until contract time, that is, we can't continue to spend thousands and thousand of dollars producing this show no matter how cool it is, or how many people we actually help...it's just not possible.
Thank you all for your acceptance and your fine community here. Y'all are the best and I hope you won't hold this admission of weakness against me for too long. If we meet in person, drinks are on me.
your pal,
Steve
Being a part of the rf.net community has been a really positive experience for me...i've never been part of anything like this before and it has been amazing. Doing "Weird Medicine" and everything that goes with it has affected my personal life in a negative way, by increasing my stress level, draining my disposable finances, and affecting my marriage. It feeds my narcissistic tendencies as well, which is something I've been working on in therapy for years and I see a lot of backsliding because of my incessant checking of emails, forums, twitter, and facebook. I really want to do a good job on the questions here in the rf.net forum and just can't do it and survive. It all has to stop until I get better.
For now, we're recording Weird Medicine once a month which I can handle (we do two shows at a time) and we have plans for the other two weeks each month that I think everyone will really like. If we can afford it, we'll do some LIVE shows from NYC once a year or from Nashville 2-3 times a year. Until contract time, that is, we can't continue to spend thousands and thousand of dollars producing this show no matter how cool it is, or how many people we actually help...it's just not possible.
Thank you all for your acceptance and your fine community here. Y'all are the best and I hope you won't hold this admission of weakness against me for too long. If we meet in person, drinks are on me.
your pal,
Steve