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question to Dr. Bob about other boards research?

Posted by Jen Star on July 22, 2005, at 19:33:14

hi Dr. Bob and everyone here,
I had a question about other mental health boards. I recently found and posted on a forum called Psych Central, just to see what it was like.

Dr. Bob, do you, as a moderator, ever check out boards similar to this one to see how they are running, or to compare group dynamics and how they change over time? And to posters - do you post on other boards? If you do, what are the major differences that you see from this one?

My hypothesis is this, and I'd be interested to see if it's correct: Dr. Bob puts more of an emphasis on civility, so over time the people who migrate and stay at Babble tend to be the sorts who uphold the civility and are generally more supportive of the community as a whole than is seen at other places.

However, because the civility rules are stricter than other places, there also tends to be a much smaller but very vocal population of people here who love testing the rules, and some who are mad about a block and come back again and again to cause trouble.

So overall, if there was a bell curve drawn of people who come to babble, based on the factor of civility, babble would get larger "tails" (extreme left being very uncivil) and extreme right being very nice/civil) than other sites.

I'm not posting this with any weird intent to cause trouble. I really love Babble, and I plan to stay here! I'm just curious about the world "out there" and what experiences people have had. Within the bounds of appropriate civility and your own comfort level, would anyone be comforable sharing any experiences with me? Do you think my assessment is in any way correct?

I know some other boards don't condone publishable research (I think it's cool, personally), but naturally we can all form our own opinions about how things work, and try to understand where differences come from.

Thanks for reading, and thanks to any who feel comfortable responding.

thanks!
JenStar

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