Posted by Dr. Bob on November 6, 2010, at 3:23:08
In reply to Bless you guys...., posted by muffled on October 5, 2010, at 18:53:35
> I'd like to think of PB as a family because we share things here we can't anywhere else. The only people I know who understand what mental illness is like and what taking psychiatric medication is like are here. Therefore it saddens me greatly when people leave this site for one reason or another. Where will they go? Who will they turn to for answers and advice and empathy?
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> I've been lurking on-and-off here since 1999 and it seems to me that 'administrative' issue are starting to consume the boards much more than they used to. I don't really know why this is - maybe it's just the natural evolution of an organic community.It saddens me, too. But you got me thinking, maybe part of it is that we have in fact become like a family, and like in a family, both love and hurt can have deep roots.
> I think resetting the blocks for everyone would have a massively positive effect on the community, for a number of reasons. Every legislative system, even the town library, recognizes the need for however rare amnesty as a way of putting the 'family' back together, opening the gate and asking all the poor stray sheep to please come back in...
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> Also I'd like propose that all Babblers who have grievances against Dr.Bob and other posters just forgive each other and move on.
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> Could we all just reset our relationships with each other? Just put away the knives and forget about who's right and who's wrong and just go back to what PB used to be about?It might be nice to be able to "reboot" one's family. :-)
I'd rather the sheep didn't stray in the first place, but how about this: If all of Babble can stay civil for a month, then I'll cut all blocks in half.
> Maybe it's a sign that we need some new legislative action and structures.
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> Maybe we need some kind of Elders Council which would be posters recognized by Dr. Bob as having the best interests of the community at heart and would have more oomph, so to speak, when making recommendations and rendering judgments on policy issues. ... The necessity of a group of representatives for the citizenry irregardless of the type of governmental system involved has been recognized for ages.
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> hyperfocusI've actually been thinking about something like that myself. How exactly would you see it working?
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> he has his own personal ever changing agenda, and that what is important and real to him. What people here want doesn't seem to matter.
That's kind of black-and-white. But maybe that shouldn't be surprising, lots of politics is black-and-white these days.
> Many wonderful, coherant, caring, intelligent people were once here, and they warned Bob they would leave, they begged him to change some things, or not do some things, but he didn't listen and showed no remorse at the loss of these many posters who had once made Babble the special place it was.
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> muffledBegging doesn't always get people what they want. I regret losing posters. I'm not perfect, but I've done my best to consider all sides and viewpoints and do the best thing for everybody involved.
I think the current posters make this a special place, too. :-)
Bob
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