Posted by Dr. Bob on March 27, 2014, at 3:00:08
In reply to Re: Refuge board and 'blinders', posted by doxogenic boy on March 25, 2014, at 13:34:57
> > 2. Believing false apologies might not be the most effective way to support "trolls".
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> No, it isn't, but I find it difficult to find an effective way to support trolls, except for ignoring their posts.What about reflecting on times you've done, or wanted to do, something like that yourself? Or wondering what mental state (desires, needs, feelings, reasons, beliefs, etc) their action was based on?
http://www.menningerclinic.com/education/clinical-resources/mentalizing
> > It seems to me it would be easy for a "troll" to answer "making new friends".
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> Good point. But couldn't this also be the problem when diagnosing personality disorders? That the patient understands what questions will result in a antisocial personality disorder-diagnosis?Yes.
> aren't those with an antisocial personality disorder often morally denounced, and sometimes also psychiatrists denounce them on the basis of this diagnosis? Are these psychiatrist wrong, and do they misunderstand what antisocial personality disorder is?
I'm not sure it helps to denounce the denouncers. Reasonable people can disagree.
> > > If the Refuge board works successfully, could you make all the boards into Refuge boards?
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> > I could -- that was the old Babble -- but what about people who prefer the city to the woods?
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> It seems to me like most of the posters here on Psycho-Babble Administration prefer the woods. If this is correct, could you do some forestation for us? Or maybe we can do it together?Posters who prefer the woods may be over-represented here on Admin. If the forest got too crowded, sure, it might make sense to expand it.
> could a no-troll policy be a supplement (and not a substitute) to the civility rules, when a single post may not be uncivil, but more posts seen together are disruptive and trollish?
I guess so. But Galileo was disruptive, would you block him? And how would you operationalize "trollish"?
Bob
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