How has the online community helped you? Let us know!

@OverlyAnxious IMO, people who enjoy helping people are not selfish, because truly selfish people do not enjoy helping people.

I love the Games Den but I'm actually thinking of leaving the forum for several overlapping reasons:

1. The one-upmanship of some users who set themselves up as "experts" and are super-quick to knock down the thoughts of others.
2. The apparent inability to begin a thread on a specific topic with a needy user or an "expert" turning it into another general thread.
3. The format enables a serious discussion of key political issues turn into a childish attack on politicians' appearance, etc. This sort of post enables good, solid information to be lost in the banter.
4. The format enables a user to write an insult to another user and then edit it out. The recipient then sees a notification in their box. They open it to find one or several blank messages.

Your question was how has the Scope community has or does help. I have to say that I've seldom found it helpful and currently find it a quite distressing. It does nothing to help my situation and, in fact, is another reminder of my social isolation. It's also a warning that I'm as likely to be hurt by another disabled person as by Joe Bloggs the local Reform Party candidate.

I've recently come on here with concerns about universal credit and with some great advice from Kimi87 I'm hopefully on the right road to getting it sorted. Can honestly not be more grateful for the time and effort that was put in to help me. Thank you so very much Kimi87