Posted by pseudoname on December 27, 2005, at 21:18:56
In reply to Re: Toronto publicity issues » pseudoname, posted by thuso on December 27, 2005, at 19:31:02
> There are a million "what if's" [...]
I'm guessing you haven't seen Bob's web critics that I've seen. The intensity of very personal, enduring hostility in some of that writing about Bob & other Babblers should give anyone pause.
I'm stuck somewhat because for several reasons I can't quote it or link to it. For one thing, I don't want to allege that someone who publishes a strongly worded, extremely critical article about Babbler X* is likely to do anything else to embarrass X. He/she may just want to write vitriolically about X and leave it at that. But at the very least, X should be alerted to the writing, and other people should be aware that such energetic hostility toward Babblers is out there before they expose themselves at APA.
> And I would probably hesitate posting something that could cause undue anxiety on those who are planning to go.
Maybe we can agree to disagree about whether this information is "due". Surely the people who are going are adults and can evaluate the issue for themselves, in part by reading your responses. That's a core principle of Babble, right? For a while, a few had this info and no one else did; now it's in the open. I'm not in a paternalistic position of judging what other Babblers don't need to know.
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*Babbler X = a prominent Babbler
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