Posted by Minnie-Haha on May 21, 2005, at 22:00:46
In reply to Re: Dr Bob: question about being blocked or PBC'd? » Minnie-Haha, posted by Gabbi-x-2 on May 21, 2005, at 17:08:06
> > Yeah! I'd like to know the answer to this too. I got blocked after ONE PBC. I got my second block after my first block, with no more PBCs in between. So I Figured you get one warning (PBC) and from then on out, you start getting blocked and you never get a PBC again. But that can't be true, can it? (It doesn't seem that's how other PBCs/blocks work. I never felt any of my transgressions were as outrageous as some I've seen here, so I was suprised that retribution was so swift and sharp. Then I wondered if I just hadn't been a member long enough to have any cred.)
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> > Minnie
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> I don't think that was it. In your case I'm pretty sure it was because the post you were P.B.C'd on was personal, and so was the second, though the second was disguised.
> If you are negative toward a particular poster you are more likely to be blocked after your first P.B.C.
> You can also get a quick block if you are P.B.C'd on a thread and then continue being uncivil on the same thread...I appreciate, Gabbi, your trying to explain this to me. I really do. (I was trying to accept that my question was going to go unanswered.) But I got PBCd only once -- in February. I got blocked 2 months later (with no PBC/warning). I didn't like it, but I conceded that I'd messed up. Then I was blocked a second time for trying to discuss whether or not a certain kind of behavior (that makes me and others feel put-down) is civil, using completely hypothetical examples *and* with good intentions, which seemed to be very important to a lot of folks on that thread. (It really hurts that even though I declared my intentions *in the very first paragraph* of that thread, I'm accused of not really having that intention at all, but rather of making a covert personal attack.)
I won't argue the first PBC, or the first block (though it seems from my observations that unless people are rabid and cursing, they usually collect a few PBCs before they're blocked). But the second block, IMO, was completely uncalled for.
Finally, does anyone have any idea how the behavior we were talking about *can* be discussed without the person bringing it up getting PBCd/blocked?
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