Posted by crushedout on December 14, 2003, at 12:47:44
In reply to Re: yes » kara lynne, posted by crushedout on December 14, 2003, at 12:40:16
i also for the life of me cannot understand why the poster that offended me (and so many others) was never told to be civil. i think that really makes no sense. especially since he attacked dinah directly, accusing her of "grumbling and obligatory thinking," whatever that means. to make yourself vulnerable on this site and then be criticized directly by someone that doesn't even know you seems like it should violate the rules.right now i'm so mad at dr. bob that i can't bring myself to respond to his email asking me if he was "missing something." hello. yes, he was.
> well, my outrage was toward dr. bob, and although to be perfectly frank, he was very opaque in explaining to me why i was blocked (both online and off), it seems that part wasn't what did it. i think it was my assertion that the poster's posts had been offensive and making inappropriate assumptions about people. now, one question that folks haven't addressed is why *i* was blocked and others weren't, when in a later thread, people kind of let him have it way more than i did (you guys know what i'm talking about? i think the thread started as "mind's eye" or something). perhaps the distinction was that he *asked* for the criticism when they did it.
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> i'm certainly not advocating for those others to *also* be blocked, since i agreed wholeheartedly with what they wrote. i'm just trying to understand why *i* was blocked and they weren't.
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> my previous pbc was for a much more glaring violation, now that i look back at it. but i was new at the time and didn't understand the rules at all.
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> here it is, if you must see it (i'm a little embarrassed by it, because i may have been overreacting, but also please remember i was new):
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20031011/msgs/268926.html
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> (i can't believe i'm laying out my crime history for all to see! i hope this can't be used against me in a court of law.)
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> > No need to be embarrassed, it gets confusing sometimes. Yes, I saw that post. While I don't think it was block-worthy it seems to be a typical example of a post that will inevitably get blocked: a reasonable reaction to feeling insulted, eg. But what had you said before that that warranted your pbc? Because in that post I still don't understand the specific crime--that you found something 'outrageous and offensive'?
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> > I'm just wondering what rule was violated.
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