Posted by special_k on April 15, 2006, at 10:06:36
In reply to Re: I must disagree » special_k, posted by Dinah on April 15, 2006, at 9:57:20
before automated asterisking...
some people would swear in their posts...
with no comment.
another person would swear in their post...
and get blocked for it.why did the first person not get blocked / warned while the second person did?
and of course it still happens (though not with that 'cause of automated asterisking)
but it still happens.
in fact... sometimes someone gets blocked because bob reads an incivility that isn't even there.
i guess he was expecting him to be uncivil... and so that primes him to look for incivilities
priming...
confirmation bias...there is a literature.
i don't think i'm contradicting what i said before.
maybe i've changed my mind...
or maybe i'm worrying about another class of phenomena...
i'm not worried about the majority of warnings / blockings...
at this point i'm mostly worried about politics.
though i made a suggestion before (about the inconsistent ruling re whether we are responsible to pages linked to a page we cite)
people are welcome to haul up old arguments if they like...
maybe they'll persuade me ;-)
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