Posted by Toph on March 17, 2008, at 20:10:00
In reply to Let me try again, posted by Dinah on March 16, 2008, at 10:17:21
> In the future, Dr. Bob would like the posters themselves, the community of Babble, to provide the immediate level of framework, with deputies providing an intermediate framework, and Dr. Bob providing an overarching support...
>I have a couple reactions to this, although I think people are pretty sick of what I have to say by now.
I like the idea. It's radical - self policing. It's far less rigid than every detected infraction receiving a punishment based on some crazy formula. If nobody's offended (or nobody cares) - no harm, no foul. If there's uneven justice - then it's like American jurisprudence where any number of factors mitigate the sanction including character witnesses, juries identifying with the accused, judges biases, plea barganing, hell I'm no lawyer but 10 people commiting the same crime can get ten different legal reactions.
The peoplem is it may not work for whatever reason. Bob has recinded rules, I think, or let them lapse, or dropped boards. Evolution can go forward and back.
Again, my problem is that a change of this magnitude should at the very least involve public discourse. After the cat got out of the bag and everyone freaked, if he was at all invested in these changes, as "the overarching support" that you claim Bob is, why the hell didn't he come explain and support the concept? Or is this his way of sabbotaging the plan before its even instituted?
I'm sorry to keep ranting about Bob, but the over arching support that was the foundation of this nice building looks pretty feeble to me right now.
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