Seriously? A plastic surgery attention whore is upset that people are taking about her plastic surgery and her pictures, with copyrights noted by the OP? LMAO. She didn't take those pics and put them on the internet for people not to take notice.

Miss J, I'm sorry you are having to deal with so many irrational people lately. I agree making more of the forum private will prevent a lot of unnecessary drama and wasted time.

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I would love it if the whole board was private...that way no one at my work will ever be able to find out I'm posting here when I should be working!!! (Well, that's my selfish reason anyway).

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Yes, but I clear cache every day. Regardless, if they wanted to they could certainly find my postings with or without my PC to check. I was being cheeky.

Having the board public has no real advantage for you, and could be just the opposite actually (aggravation and more work to be public).

Your membership is pretty much closed, unless you invite or get recs from other members.

You don't advertise so you don't need to keep up your rankings on google.

You prefer a certain, higher 'level/quality' of posters which is not generally what most PS boards have as their membership. You have a target membership/audience.

Your time is valuable, so better spent doing what you want to do rather than tending to emails from lurkers and/or trolls.

For these reasons, it simply might be in your best interest to close the entire board to public view and cut down on the hassle. The only difference for us (members) would be we could not view/read as 'guests' and would have to log in each time we visited the board to read, which is not a big deal for me personally. Don't know how others would feel about it.

Maybe you should do a member poll and get a temperature for how members feel in general. There's just no real benefit for you to keep the board viewable by every bot and human being on the Internet if they are not your target audience/membership, especially since lurkers/guests can eat up your bandwidth. If all that was visible were the individual board titles (like the lip and facial aug are now) then people would know the board exists but it's targeted to those you know, want, trust as members.

My board has to be public because it is hosted by a free service. They require that 50% of the board be unprotected and viewable by everyone. I also need my board public so that others harmed can find the board. Otherwise, I would take it private to keep the crazies out. I've had to deal with docs (unscrupulous) sending people to join/monitor/post themselves and my target membership is the opposite of med field types joining unless they are there to help not troll for patients or have their employees interject 'good info' about a particular doctor or call out members on the 'impossibility' of their symptoms.

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Hello everybody, I'm Cindy Jackson. Miss J has kindly let me reply.

First, a little background: I started my Cosmetic Surgery Network in 1988, before most of us had ever heard of the internet. It is a long-established cosmetic surgery resource that continues to this day providing quality up-to-date information to those who wish to benefit from the combined experiences of thousands of other patients the world over. It is the secret of how I continue to find the very best practitioners over the years: I get to see the results for myself on those I meet through my own network of patients. Had the internet been available back then, I don't think I would have taken the time to meet so many other patients face-to-face, nor would I have known whom or what to believe. These days when I meet with people who have had bad surgical results, more and more often they tell me they heard about the procedure or the surgeon online, or were put off their original choice of surgeon or surgery because of something they read on the internet. Therefore I am grateful for being a "pre-internet" patient as I would have probably have done the same.

Moving with the times, of course I put my story online and adapted my patient network accordingly. However my copyright material is increasingly copied and pasted out of context. People have even photoshopped my pictures to make my face look disproportionate or my nose look crooked or my eyes mismatched, then posted them along with spiteful comments about how bad my "surgery" looks. There is an incredible amount of misinformation online about everything - including me. For years I ignored it and tried to rise above it all, but not anymore. It's not fair to me, or to those who want to know the truth. It takes very little time to do a Google image search and send emails to the sites who infringe my copyright. Of course new ones keep going up, but I already took on Mother Nature and won...

When I was young I heard the playground taunts and bullying about my looks; when I grew up I had cosmetic surgery. Now I get similar playground-type taunts and bullying online for having had the surgery. After awhile you come to understand that if you take away the stick people are hitting you with, some of them will just pick up a different stick and carry on hitting - because they LIKE hitting others. These bullies are in their element online because they can hide behind false identities or choose to remain anonymous and post any remark, lie or comment about anything or anyone for the whole world to see - and they need take no responsibility for it. In addition to the online abuse, I have also had three stalkers, numerous copycats (one who continues to falsely claim the Guinness World Record I have held since 2000) and a British drag artist who looks like Divine and has renamed himself "Cindy Jackson" so he can go on TV and say he wants surgery to look like a famous model - just to give you a few examples. Not much I can do about those, I guess they go with the territory.

Unlike so much of the online community, I am not anonymous. My life story and my surgery is out there for all to see on my web site. So are my pictures, which are copyright protected so they cannot legally be taken out of context or posted on random sites for others to vent their spleens over - or used as a stick to hit me with. You may not agree with what I have done, you may have your own views on my surgical results, you may have a thousand other opinions - to which you are certainly entitled. However, you may not use my copyright material without permission, which is why it is, by definition, "copyright material." Anyone who still wants to refer to my pictures or surgery can just link to my site: www.cindyjackson.com

In closing, I would like to thank Miss J for giving me this opportunity to talk to you. Also for removing my photos so promptly when asked to do so. Normally I have to send numerous emails and legal threats before anyone takes any notice, hence my strongly worded email - and my attitude. So thank you Miss J for being the very first person to do that, and thanks to everyone who takes the time to read this.

With very best wishes,
Cindy Jackson

[quote=Cindy Jackson]Hello everybody, I'm Cindy Jackson. Miss J has kindly let me reply.

Hey Cindy -

I truly applaud your courage and aesthetic imagination in reinventing yourself - You should not let negative criticism take away any of your happiness in pursuing your goals - I wish you all the best in life -

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Yatterman1 - Hi there! Miles lives in northern England so we mainly keep in touch online these days. He isn't interested in publicity or being in the media anymore, having had more than enough of the downside that goes with it. That's why you haven't seen any new stuff about him. As for my "joined date," Miss J assigned me an old account that wasn't being used so that must have been when the other person joined. I have never been on this forum before.

Lazarelle - Thank you for your kind words! ♡

I will if I can but please PM them to me to protect his privacy. Thanks!

I don't think it's unrealistic. Before I could suggest surgeons I'd need to know what part of the world you live in. As for publicity, the media are always looking for case histories, but I must caution you, it is a double-edged sword and you need very thick skin. There is no operation for that unfortunately! I'll PM you about the rest.

This is misleading. The guy is (or claims to be) transgender and the famous model he wants to look like is Katie Price. To say he looks like Divine is beneath you, surely, with your experiences. When I saw him on TV I got the impression he wouldn't have a clue who you were - he is a teen, no? Why would he?

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You are giving people the stick to beat you with... There is nothing clever in holding that record. Let it go:)

if the other Cindy Jackson looks like Divine, surely it would be cruel to harp on about it - that is my point.

I know who you are b/c I have an active interest in PS. I don't think any of my friends would, or they might if prompted by something.

Maybe I should be more cynical but I thought "the other Cindy" seemed a bit lost and well very young..rather than someone trying to cash in on your name..just saying..