Posted by ST on March 4, 2002, at 2:22:01
In reply to Deleting my post was double-plus ungood, posted by Shar on March 3, 2002, at 21:58:19
Shar,
I'm pretty surprised. It stops being an experiment or research and becomes steered in a contrived direction. Very weird indeed. No offense, Dr. Bob. I would imagine that a truly insightful and honest research project would go untampered. (Blocking people for civility issues aside)
Sarah> Wow, I am very, very surprised that you deleted a post because things had been 'stirred up enough' on the thread. Hmmm. That is really crossing the boundary between being a watchdog and determining the direction or outcome you want in a situation.
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> When you start deleting posts based on content that you speculate might 'stir things up' even more, it isn't too far a reach to think about you deleting posts for other seemingly innocuous reasons, or even because you don't like the opinion expressed--or the opiner!
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> And, if you are deleting posts, this board is no longer spontaneous, and you'd need to talk about that if you publish any more research based on the Babbles.
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> My feathers have gotten ruffled over this but I speculate I'll live. Still think it is a bad idea to do that.
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> Shar
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