Posted by Sigismund on April 6, 2009, at 23:26:14
In reply to Re: an opportunity » Dr. Bob, posted by zenhussy on April 6, 2009, at 22:42:20
I'd hazard a guess that Bob feels somewhat badly about the decline in attendance at Babble and that was part of why the blocking system changed for the better (with the exception of Zazenducke).
I also think he has benign intentions.
He's just a bloke with a website who gets his ideas about social control from places not terribly familiar to me, maybe the US justice system, or some Uni of Chicago paradigm.
I think it would have been better for Babble as a whole if the question of blocks had not become an issue, which might have been achievable with blocks of around a month, maximum.
But we shall never know.I don't think we should make demons of each other.
Bob may have used a couple of phrases infelicitously.
Jade and Verne became angry.
No one is going to apologise freely if they are grabbed by the scruff of the neck and told to do so.
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