Posted by zazenduck on June 11, 2006, at 16:47:46
In reply to Posting while blocked » Larry Hoover, posted by Dinah on June 5, 2006, at 11:29:42
But the problem as I suspect you are aware is that Bob can't really tell when the poster is blocked if he is using Earthlink or AOL or other big providers because they have thousands of ISP numbers and the users get a different one each time they go online.And a fairly large percentage of a board this big may be using the same service. So he's really just guessing ......or someone may notice similiarity in vocabulary and make accusations....but that's just accusing someone and accusations without proof are not in the service of a healthy community. And people can end up being blocked for something they didn't do. Personally I would volunteer to serve time for most of the people given long blocks but it would be nice to volunteer rather than be blocked because of someone else's unsupported suspicions. I think it's less than optimally open and honest to let it be thought that Bob actually KNOWS when someone is posting from the same computer much less is the same person. :)
I think honesty and openness promotes civility.
> I don't see the not posting while blocked rule as preventing civility. It seems perfectly common sense to me.
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