Posted by Lou Pilder on April 13, 2003, at 14:24:53
In reply to Re: Lou's respomses, posted by Dr. Bob on April 9, 2003, at 1:02:03
Dr. Bob,
You wrote,[...If a persom wants to be able to post to another person, they should take account of the other poster's feelings...].
I always take account of people's feelings, if they are ligitamate and reasoanable. But I feel that it is unreasonable to take in accout any feelings of another if the post has the potential to be defaming or accusatory or needs to be clarified for identification or for some other good or just cause. I do not feel that a public forum should allow people's {ill}-feelings toward another poster to render them to declare that another poster can not respond to them. I feel that if people's feelings are more important than the purpose of this board, that they should not be posting statements that have the potential to hurt my feelings, or hurt other people's feelings. My suggestion, if {I} was the moderator of a public internet mental -health forum, would be not to favor a person's want to keep anyone from posting to what they posted. Instead, I would requier a poster to answer a request for clarification if their statement had the potential to be defamatory or accusitve, so that any offensive statement is addressed for its potential to defame another poster,[and not left on the board unclarified .]
Lou
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