Posted by alexandra_k on February 20, 2005, at 21:05:31
In reply to LOL - I guess I should have re-read my post . . . » alexandra_k, posted by TamaraJ on February 20, 2005, at 20:18:08
> before I hit "submit".
Oh no, I saw the sense in your post. I was just being slightly tongue in cheek. Trying to be funny or mildly amusing or something...
>If someone gets a PBC once in a year or even twice in a year, and apologizes and/or acknowledges the error of their ways (as most do I think), then is it really a true pattern of uncivil behaviour?
I hear you and I guess I agree, though I also think there could be exceptions. For example I have been warned (PBC'd) about posting to posters who have requested me not to post to them. This seems simple enough. I fully understand that I shouldn't have done that and I fully expect I'll get blocked should I do it again. Whether it happens today, tomorrow, or in two years I still expect I'd get a blocking.
Same for swearing with the civility checker off.
Those issues seem fairly cut and dried (to me anyway). But if you get maybe 2 or 4 PBC's in a year for getting slightly carried away then I would hope that they are not stored up. If they are then I would like to know if there may be a magic number.
And what it is.
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