Posted by spoc on June 19, 2004, at 17:01:30
In reply to My pcb, posted by partlycloudy on June 19, 2004, at 10:30:42
> Dr. Bob, I guess I don't understand that I am not supposed to respond when someone else posts something that i find offensive or upsetting? And wasn't that poster blocked?
<<<<< Hi,
I hope you'll feel better through coming to see this particular pbc as nothing personal or confusing, because it really looks like an example of the pure technicality type. I can be very sensitive, but this type of pbc I think I could "process," as it falls under the heading of ways we just can't refer to people, no matter what. The aim is for that to be a constant regardless of what happened. I think discussing it when someone can't reply is kind of an informal addendum, opposite of what may feel more appropriate due to presumed consensus.
Really just dry technicalities based on one of the basic rules, rather than one of those more ambiguous cases that end up being decided by the more negative of the possible interpretations. Does that difference help?
> I thought this was a place where I could say how I feel, but I guess that according to the rules, that's not the case.
>
> So I just won't bother posting. Sorry to trouble you.<<<<<< Maybe that wouldn't be something you'd actually like, all things considered. It might help you feel better to think of the times that you've said you were upset by the existence of a debate or conflict of some type going on on the board, even though you weren't involved in it. I think you meant that you again felt that way in this case, although that particular poster stood out most to you. So, maybe having people express what bothers them here, and/or what bothers them about others, isn't actually one of the more comforting liberties to you?
I hope that helps somehow, gives a different perspective to try putting it into. :- )
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