I think that it would be an awesome idea to actual have a diagnosed complication section (make it clear that questions/concerns are not diagnosed problems)

This would be a huge help to many new people coming to our boards. I've tried looking up a lot of old threads but its getting rough with all of our posts!!

I mean.. lets face it many of us have had complications concering the band.. and I always loved this site because you could get both sides of the story and not all complications are a big red X for the band.. but its important ppl are making informed decisions.

Here's my thinking on that:

That's been suggested before, and I think the consensus was that it wouldn't be helpful. Personally, I think it's cyclical--given any particular day you might fine mostly good posts or mostly problem posts, but anyone reading for any length of time is going to see both. If they really look, in fact, I'll bet most of the posts in general are complaints of one sort or another.

Separating out the "complications" would tend to emphasize them out of proportion, because we wouldn't have a separate forum for just the "good news"--and even if we did there woudn't be anyone posting after the first little while. Posting "I'm doing fine" gets boring after a while and people move on.

All anyone has to do is start a thread asking for complications stories, and she'll get them. But if it is in fact true that MOST bandsters don't experience complications in any major way, we shouldn't highlight some stories in a way that would tend to make it seem otherwise.