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Posted by BayLeaf on September 15, 2009, at 20:53:38
How do you think Babble is improved by losing Alex for 37 weeks?
Do you just forget her for that time? Is she off your radar? hoping she has some other form of support? what if she doesn't??
bob
Posted by Dr. Bob on September 29, 2009, at 8:55:12
In reply to Hey Bob, posted by BayLeaf on September 15, 2009, at 20:53:38
> How do you think Babble is improved by losing Alex for 37 weeks?
>
> Do you just forget her for that time? Is she off your radar? hoping she has some other form of support? what if she doesn't??I think Babble is improved by civility. I feel sad about losing Alex, though. I wish this community could've helped her avoid this block. She may be out of sight, but she's not out of mind. I do hope she has other forms of support. There's always that listing compiled by a poster of helpful web pages on coping with crisis:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psycho-babble-tips/links/Coping_with_crisis_001012507973
Bob
Posted by BayLeaf on September 30, 2009, at 18:19:44
In reply to Re: losing Alex, posted by Dr. Bob on September 29, 2009, at 8:55:12
YOU wrote the rules
she broke one of YOUR rules
YOU blocked her for 37 weeks!!
YOU
Posted by Sigismund on October 2, 2009, at 2:48:05
In reply to Stop blaming the community for YOUR actions » Dr. Bob, posted by BayLeaf on September 30, 2009, at 18:19:44
The formula has an interesting impersonal psychology.
It's not like you are being punished.
It's as if you have fallen (out of grace?) into a state of incivility at which point, because the aim of the site is to maintain it, the formula must therefore be employed.
It might be a little like the lie detector? It gives that reassuring feeling of impartial dealing, and relies on the technological fix.
It's entertaining (I suppose), and revealing of the cultural biases to which we are all prone.
Posted by BayLeaf on October 2, 2009, at 20:55:39
In reply to Re: Stop blaming the community for YOUR actions, posted by Sigismund on October 2, 2009, at 2:48:05
When I am banished - it feels personal. It FEELS like a punishment for misbehavior. It IS in fact just that.
Do you think Alex feels "reassured" during 37 weeks of banishment?
I don't find any of this entertaining. Do you? Do you think Dr Bob does?
Bay
Posted by Sigismund on October 3, 2009, at 1:57:24
In reply to Re: Stop blaming the community for YOUR actions » Sigismund, posted by BayLeaf on October 2, 2009, at 20:55:39
>I don't find any of this entertaining. Do you?
What is this?
Posted by 10derHeart on October 3, 2009, at 11:24:01
In reply to Re: Stop blaming the community for YOUR actions, posted by Sigismund on October 3, 2009, at 1:57:24
I thought perhaps BL was trying to figure out what this part of your post meant:
>It's entertaining (I suppose), and ....
That's how I read it, anyway.
No doubt I could be utterly wrong.
Posted by Sigismund on October 3, 2009, at 16:15:49
In reply to Re: Stop blaming the community for YOUR actions » Sigismund, posted by 10derHeart on October 3, 2009, at 11:24:01
The civility rules prevented me from saying what I thought of the formula, although I note that Orwellian has escaped censure.
There *is* the whole context of my post.
(I suppose I'm tired of babble and Babble is tired of me. Sometimes things don't work out. Mostly they don't. You have a community, they come to hate each other. C'est la vie, FWIW. My friends went years ago. I don't know what I'm doing here.)
For the record, so as not to encourage ambiguity, I am in favour of blocks for some things, but not in excess of 1 month at most and mainly less. Certainly blocks prevented discussion on the Politics Board.
This is the end of the thread.
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