Posted by Solstice on January 6, 2011, at 0:32:54
In reply to Re: True meaning, posted by Willful on January 6, 2011, at 0:01:02
I, for one, appreciate your direct and skillful confrontation of this stuff, Willful. The judgment has bothered me, too. And further, I second your sentiment about Phillipa. She is a long-term valued member of the community that has valuable contributions to make. I think everyone genuinely wants everybody to play in the sandbox nicely - but in order to do that - community accountability is important.
Solstice
> To ou812: I've having trouble evaluating the basis for your statements about this board, a place where you seem not to have posted before, but where you say you have been "lurking for years" and about which you are now --also after having visited many other forums--thinking of writing an article on cyber-bullying. First of all, you don't give any basis in fact-- which ask for from others--for your claims of lurking, your familiarity with many other boards, or your expertise in cyber-bullying.
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> Your analysis of this board as having "Borderline/ Paranoid /Passive-Aggressive" qualities isn't very meaningful either as this board is not a person and doesn't have a psychology such as what you could ascribe to individuals. At least you would need some sort of discussion to show that that was a valid type of analysis before trying to offering it as some sort of independent view.
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> I don't see any evidence for your statements-- yet you seem to know quite a bit about individuals here. Why have you chosen suddenly after presumably noting other incidents of this type for years without being moved to post,, to post in this thread and to make the judgments about us that you've made?
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> I wanted to point out that Dr. Bob does not have a Phd, but is a medical doctor, a fact which you would know if you were doing careful research of any kind, and which is stated on virtually every main page of this forum.
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> It has been said in this thread that we shouldn't trust people that we don't know or know well, and I want to reiterate that we should recognize that none of us really do know one another, and we must therefore make our own judgments of what is or is not true or important here.
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> I also would like to say to everyone that I certainly am thinking of Phillipa as a human being. I'm not suggesting that she's a bad person. I don't consider myself to be bullying her or wish for her to be lynched, stoned, driven from our community or destroyed. I want that to be very very clear. And I don't believe that anyone here feels that way, or is treating her with inhumanity.
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