Goodbye To The Neuromonitoring Forum
One area of the website that I thought had the most potential to be an asset for the IONM community was the neuromonitoring forum. But it has been several months now and it is still a complete ghost town. I’m honestly not too depressed about it since I would have to spend a bunch of extra time moderating it, but I think it could have been a great resource if people got engaged on it. You would have been able to ask questions and give answers. Without it, the conversation is limited to whatever I feel like posting about, which may not represent what questions need to be answered.
But because it takes up some of the website’s resources just to have it loaded, and the only thing worse for a website not having a forum is having one that isn’t used, I’m taking it all down. So for now, at least, all conversations on this website will have to be in the comment section.
Joe Hartman
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