Posted by alexandra_k on August 29, 2005, at 0:40:15
In reply to Re: does it really? » alexandra_k, posted by gardenergirl on August 28, 2005, at 22:31:58
> Hi alexandra
Hello gg :-)
> I appreciate that you are thinking deeply about this issue and trying to understand and perhaps explain.
Trying... But I think everybody knows I talk a lot of sh*t.
> Still...
> I feel the need to say that I absolutely own my reactions to posts which upset me. Posts do not "make me" feel anything.Okay...
> But me owning my reactions and feelings to posts does not absolve posters of any consequence for posting something which may be inappropriate or not within the site's guidelines.Indeed. I never meant to imply that it did. I said (somewhere) that I didn't know whether there would be admin action or not...
>The content is there regardless of my reaction or non-reaction to it.
Right.
> Examining what lies behind my own reactions to posts is an exercise which benefits only me
Well... I think it can also benefit the posters who read your subsequent posts.
>and does not change the nature of a post.
Right. And there are consequences for posting certain kinds of things.
> And frankly, I don't think that anyone here can "get someone blocked".I guess I was thinking that blockings / PBC's tend to come out when a situation is escalating. If a situation is all sorted out then there is the possibility that it might get by. So our responses aren't completely irrelevant with respect to whether people get PBC'd / blocked or not.
>If a person who is blocked had followed site guidelines, they couldn't be blocked, could they?
No. But if people are upset and somebody posts something ambiguous then it is more likely to be interpreted negatively.
>Aren't posters responsible for the consequences of what they post?
Yes.
And I think PBC's / blockings are consequences.
And saying how one feels in response.
(In a civil way)
Sure.
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