Posted by special_k on April 15, 2006, at 9:48:52
In reply to I must disagree » special_k, posted by Dinah on April 15, 2006, at 9:35:24
> "and someone who has been stiring vs a moderator and potential moderator
> surely i'll get blocked."you aren't a moderator and i'm not a stirrer.
(you weren't thinking i was stirring were you? i might choose to feel offended by taking your silence on that to me a mark of assent...)of course even if i didn't ACTUALLY feel offended by that...
i hope you can see that it is possible that i COULD feel offended by that...
and so my point is to show that it is impossible to rearrange the world to take care of all the things people could *possibly* feel offended to
(even if we are dealing with a very narrow kind of metaphysical possibility)> Which to my reading (and I could be wrong) implies that if there is a difference of opinion between a deputy or a potential deputy and a poster who isn't a deputy or potential deputy, the poster is more likely to get blocked than if there is a difference of opinion between two posters who aren't deputies or potential deputies.
my thought was that if people start getting upset... someone is going to be warned / blocked. and priming / confirmation bias will mean my posts will be scrutinised most closely. it's been noticed before. you don't want me to start hauling up instances of bob passing over incivilitiesBOB from posters who very rarely get warned / blocked where he blocks other posters for a very long time for the exact same thing (because he is reading their posts more carefully one must suppose).
it happens. thats life. do you want references for experiments?
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