Posted by Toph on November 22, 2007, at 14:32:02 [reposted on November 22, 2007, at 17:39:07 | original URL]
In reply to Blocked for two weeks » Squiggles, posted by Deputy Dinah on November 21, 2007, at 21:42:03
> > It's also very irresponsible, to leave your family so you can get together with strangers from the net. Better to go your local community support centre - we have lots here and i am sure every city does.
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> Please don't post anything that could lead others to feel accused or put down.I don't know Squiggles as you evidently do Dinah, so perhaps her comment is as uncivil as you assume her motives to be, but I found her post to be supportive, caring - good advice in any context. If only she had prefaced her comment with, "It can also be irresponsible to leave..." (an irrefutable fact). This is harsh punishment for a well-intentioned admonition, IMHO.
Anyway, I think that all of the Babble face-to-face encounters of which I have had the pleasure to have been apart were well planned and prudent public meetings. Babblers, I find, appear to be even more interesting, sensitive, and may I dare say, civil in real life.
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