Posted by Atticus on January 11, 2005, at 22:27:15
In reply to Re: Ignore feature, posted by Dr. Bob on January 11, 2005, at 19:59:07
I have to agree with Alexandra's statement that a lot of people would feel hurt and/or put down if they suspected that others were xxxxing out their posts, even temporarily. Would the poster who is being xxxxed for a week or however long be made aware of the fact? That would truly be cruel. On the other hand, having observed the dynamics of PB and the sensitivity of many of the posters, would the suspicion, founded or unfounded, that other people were zapping their posts lead to upset as well. To my way of thinking, this idea just doesn't pass the smell test. I imagine a lot of very sensitive posters treading with fear here, believing that people don't like them and are xxxxxing their posts. Self-loathing is a major feature of depression as it is. Are you risking adding an ingredient to the pot that could trigger this further? I'd also like to add that every time a new gizmo is added or rule devised, it seems to me to be designed to further curtail freedom of expression -- whether it's that stupid f*cking auto-asterisking system or something else. I've written on Social how I'm coming to terms with the fact that a whole lot of people who didn't know I was bipolar do now. I've written how I feared being stigmatized if my "secret" came out. But by not allowing us to express ourselves as adults on Psycho-Babble, aren't you engaging a kind of stimatizaton yourself? You're treating us -- people with mental illness -- like children by increasingly limiting our forms of expression. It's as if you believe the mentally ill don't possess the werewithal to communicate like the adults we are. Your rules just continue to make me feel more and more infantile in your eyes. And for that, all I can say is, shame on you, Bob. Atticus
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