Posted by alexandra_k on August 18, 2009, at 11:21:15
In reply to Idealizing, posted by Dinah on August 18, 2009, at 9:25:47
> He put in autoasterisking, and he modified the block formula.
But he didn't apologize to Zen or Muffled. He didn't take what he did to them back.
>Those issues are in the past,
I don't think they are. There isn't a system that doesn't allow a poster to post more than three posts in a row - and his enforcement of that rule is just as arbitrary and intermittent as his enforcement of the swearing without an asterisk rule. Which is to say sometimes he chooses to enforce (and sanction blocks of up to one year) whereas otherwise he does not.
> and whether or not we agree with him on those decisions, the important thing is that he's put policies in place to see they don't happen again.
Not with the three post rule.
>He can't change the past, he did change the future.
But the 'past' is the 'present' when people are presently blocked for his decisions that were made in the past.
> He changed the rules because we said things that changed his views on the topic.
When he appreciates that he can no longer sustain the support of the community without changing... He changes. I don't think it is about 'reason' so much as 'popular opinion', however. And not only that... The 'popular opinion' of those who he has chosen not to block. A self selected 'opinion' if ever there was one...
> I don't think incivility to him would cause him to change his views. Persuasive arguments presented logically are more likely to succeed.
That isn't my experience at all. Rational arguments are responded to with questions that attempt to throw everything back on the person asking the question. I haven't seen Bob give a straight answer to a straight question in... All my time here... I really don't know why anyone would think that...
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