Posted by special_k on April 14, 2006, at 23:15:13
In reply to Re:, posted by special_k on April 14, 2006, at 23:01:36
and i'll get blocked for something no doubt...
and the message will get lost...
but there is a distinction
(there are many distinctions)
there is an important distinction
(there are many important distinctions)
of course you *can* take whatever you like personally... and the boards *can* (and do on politics especially) seem to warn / block on the assumption that people are *entitled* to take things personally. and of course you are entitled. you can go around taking things personally if you like. i think you will suffer more because of it but it is your perogative i guess.
i wonder if people can hear the distinction but they ignore it because they know the rules ignore it.
i think there is danger in considering there to be 'civility rules' on the boards.
there is a danger because people lose the distinction between what civility means in the dictionary (and of course that sense of civility is a terrific idea) and bob's notion of civility / what he judges to merit a PBC / PBS / blocking.
and the latter... well... that is dr bob's idiosyncratic notion. experts disagree. they don't think the latter is the best way to achieve the former.
that is up for debate.
but IMHO what is happening... is that people are seeing the rules as arbitrary again... seeing it as burying ones head in the sand because it fails to capture a distinction that is there between
hurting / accusing / attacking / judging another poster
and critiquing something that posters may have come to care about.
the trouble with the latter is that people may well have come to care about a lot of things.
so...how do you decide what things you are going to block for and what things you aren't?
depends who complains?
maybe this place is more similar to psychcentral's way of doing things than i had supposed...
and IMHO it is only going to get worse.
it is.
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