Whooter, this explanation you just gave sounds like a punishment we are receiving because we react very passionately about a sin that was committed against us. We do not want to be challenged or discredited by someone who has no real vested interest in this industry.
Why not? (Well not discredited) Why not get all the different perspectives that you can?
We don't need to get anyone's "perspective". We've LIVED this shit.......YOU have not! This, when it first started out, was a site for SURVIVORS to connect, talk, vent....whatever. Other people started reading it and it started to shed some light on the TTI. People like Lon Woodbury couldn't have that cutting into his profits, so we were invaded by programs themselves. Then you come along and try to make everyone think you're just this civic minded person here to provide "balance". Go start your own goddamned forum and talk all you want about how wonderful programs are and what a great job they did for your family.

Seriously......why would any sane person spend the inordinate amount of time here that you do if they didn't have a vested, financial interest in the industry?
So you had all these reactions from posters explaining their experiences and it rubbed you the wrong way. You found them to be narrow minded, emotional, quick to anger when agitated, I don't know what you expected from a Web Site dedicated to victims of abuse from treatment centers.
Can you stop for one second and consider that what you are doing is hurting others, I mean in five years you have not even for one nano-second questioned yourself and said,"hey is what I'm doing here helping the general population". Do you even care?
Think....
Of course I care
Bullshit.
that is why I am here.
Bullshit
Would you want the readers to just receive one perspective from fornits? If you visited a website where you were trying to get an idea about an industry wouldn’t you want to be in a forum that had representatives from differing opinions?
This website does not represent the industry in any way, shape or form. It's a fucking message board for survivors to talk about their experiences. It just happened to catch on and programs can't have their secrets being discovered so they came over to do damage control. What they were 'exposed' to here (what you refer to as attacks) is a
fraction and I mean a tiny
sliver of a fraction of what kids are exposed to in programs
every single day. They couldn't take it so they left. The kids, unfortunately, can't just leave. Then you show up and because of your marketing experience and, well.....because you're kind of a dick, you've been able to handle these "attacks"

and stuck around to protect your interests.
If you were going to buy a car you wouldn’t want to just talk to those people who were in car accidents would you? You would want to talk to people who were satisfied with their purchase also so that you could get a more broader and balanced perspective.
Please, for the love of all things good and true...........STOP THE ANALOGIES!!!!!!!!! You're really terrible at them.
And, AGAIN.......this is not a forum that represents the TTI in any way, so there is no need for you to provide anything at all. We're talking about
our experiences. You have no experience in programs, so quit pretending you know a goddamned thing about them.