aa Spoken Here Community Group
Fellowship Where you can share your thoughts, feelings, stories and get support to gain and continue sobriety.
To all members,
The admin team would like to apologise for any part that they played in the events on the group on Saturday 18th July. Several posts were made which gave concern to a member of the admin team. In the heat of the moment actions were taken taken in haste where things may have been handled better if a little more time and reflection had been taken. This resulted in several posts being deleted and a member of the group being temporarily banned. Some of this may have been able to be avoided or at least done more smoothly if the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members were more defined and more transparent to the members of the group.
In order to stop events such as these the admin team will shortly be posting a thread relating to guidelines for the group and the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members. The admin team do not wish to be controllers of the group and with that in mind the group will be as self regulating as possible. Action by the admin team will cover only conduct relating to unacceptable behaviour such as swearing, personal attacks on members or their posts etc.
Hopefully in this way we will have a group which runs more smoothly and is a friendly and respectful place to be.
Thanks for reading.
The Admin Team (nickyj, gailly, gr8ful)
The admin team would like to apologise for any part that they played in the events on the group on Saturday 18th July. Several posts were made which gave concern to a member of the admin team. In the heat of the moment actions were taken taken in haste where things may have been handled better if a little more time and reflection had been taken. This resulted in several posts being deleted and a member of the group being temporarily banned. Some of this may have been able to be avoided or at least done more smoothly if the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members were more defined and more transparent to the members of the group.
In order to stop events such as these the admin team will shortly be posting a thread relating to guidelines for the group and the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members. The admin team do not wish to be controllers of the group and with that in mind the group will be as self regulating as possible. Action by the admin team will cover only conduct relating to unacceptable behaviour such as swearing, personal attacks on members or their posts etc.
Hopefully in this way we will have a group which runs more smoothly and is a friendly and respectful place to be.
Thanks for reading.
The Admin Team (nickyj, gailly, gr8ful)
i dare to point out that NO ONE here including myself is angelic in any way and above anyone else.
as a person who runs a meeting (yes i said meeting again ! ) online... i know dam well if i had the administrators capabilities i would block gag boot half the folks who rudely comment and cause upset in there .. why? because at times if i am not spiritually fit it is so upsetting to me .. but i dont. im so grateful for that because it makes me dig into my program (i pray in that meeting and ask God to direct me and give me the words to type so i dont tear anyone's head off in there with hurtful words). I look to see where its coming from and handle the situation with our spiritual principles. that job also teaches me how to work with others. im reminded of the steps teaching me how to get along with myself (preventing suicide) and the traditions teach me how to get along with others (preventing homicide ). *utterly simple " what is so friggin hard about that ? Its what our program teaches me!!!
we all claim to be members of AA some even claim to be practicing these principles in all our affairs .. i have to ask and i ask myself too ..............
"Are ya sure you know what you're doing?"
as for me ............ i know i screw up at times and i aint perfect ... i admit it .. ya know.......... we have have to face our maker alone one day .. we have to live with what we do now AFTER the fact of step 12 that some of us have taken... i ask myself at night...................so can i sleep at night knowing what I did during the day ? do I deny what I did? do i make excuses like "oh im still sick so im not perfect" to get one over on someone ? do i say "progress not perfection" as yet another excuse to keep acting like an egotistical bitch ? yes i do ....... i ask myself those things. i also hear myself say "oh my gosh i did it again" for me thats awareness in that i dont have to try to "out type" someone or boast of my knowledge of AA .. i dont have to prove anything to anyone anymore and i dont even have to explain myself .. how great is that? all i have to do is practice these principles in all my affairs... cuz at the end of the day i know in my heart if i was a ruthless fucker or not!! i have to live with that .
i posted this today because i felt it was important to say what i thought this morning about all this and what i see goes on in this group.. i almost have to laugh "AA spoken here" .........
REALLY?????????????????
have a nice day unless.................. you have other plans.
To answer your question Gail even though no explanation is required here. The founder of that group threw out the idea of aa friends to some of us and thought it was a great idea and that's how it was formed. We are in the infant stage so to speak but growing and I'm sure there will be changes as we go along. You are a member of that group and if you see fit to do the same there as a few of us see here your more than welcome to table it in a post.
Have a good day Gail,
Gary
Could you please explain it, in a different way?
It is just another member group on DS, anyone can set one up for any purpose they like.
Hopefully the clear cut directions we are forming for this group will encourage others to speak apart from just a handful knowing that there is some protection in place for them.
Is it if its not in the BB its not worthy of discussion?