Posted by twinleaf on July 1, 2009, at 3:11:45
In reply to Re: block avoidance, posted by Dr. Bob on June 30, 2009, at 10:07:10
I am talking about a VERY RARE thing- a poster who comes on to a site with the sole purpose of tearing everyone down. This happened recently to a birdwatching site I belong to and the person was blocked permanently- but this is very very unusual.
Bob, do you ever consider eliminating long and/or escalating blocks? A number of people, from painful personal experience, have pointed out the harmful aspects of them, and a number of therapists have expressed intense concern about them also, Unless I missed it, no-one has ever written in favor of them- except YOU. But, alarmingly, you do not ever give the reasons why you want to give them- other than that they are in the rules which you wrote, and that you have the power to do it.
We all know this, because you have said it over and over. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THAT LONG BLOCKS ARE UNIVERSALLY CONSIDERED HARMFUL IN THIS COMMUNITY, would you consider changing your rules so that long blocks are no longer given?
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