Posted by Lindenblüte on October 24, 2006, at 21:13:19
In reply to Re: Three more ideas, posted by Dr. Bob on October 24, 2006, at 20:04:13
> > 3.1)I only stumbled upon the rounding DOWN bias because one babbler had 18 weeks of civil participation, but was only given credit for 10 weeks. This babbler has been a very positive participant in this forum, and has been very supportive to me as well as others. This babbler was blocked without a warning or a PBC.
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> That babbler had never received a warning or a PBC? And that was already at least their second block?The thread begins here
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/poli/20061009/msgs/694101.htmlI'm a sacrificial lamb, linking you to these potentially uncivil posts. You have every justification to PBC me, under your own rules. As you will see, reading through these posts, there is even precedent for blocking me without a PBC.
After you scan through this lively debate, I think you will agree that there was questioning of ethics and of reasoning from most everyone involved, but never an explicit warning "poster X, the following statement is uncivil | may be interpreted as uncivil | please be respectful | etc."
I think in this sort of lively debate it is essential that any warning be made explicitly and that the warning or PBC should come from an administrator.
Perhaps this poster has received the warning in the form of a private communication. If so, I don't know how the rest of us are expected to benefit and learn from the blocking process.
Perhaps this poster has received the warning at some point in psycho-babble history. Given the nature of this thread, which connects very current events with events occuring in more distant history, it is unclear to Lindenblüte how a warning or PBC from weeks or months past can be seen as directly relevant to the debate in this thread. Lindenblüte is left to speculate which warning to which poster should be considered "fair warning".
Lindenblüte is left to speculate which warning to which poster should be considered "fair warning". The more I read this sentence, the more triggered I am. Babble doesn't feel safe to me, because there is potential that I have forgottent to read something- a warning. I can be blocked at any time. I won't even know what rule I broke. I'm getting really freaked out.
I better take those meds and skedaddle, cause I'm thinking less like the clear-headed Lindenblüte, and more like the little kid who never could figure things out like rules, or fair warning, or? but I tried so damn hard, Dr. Bob. That's why I feel so upset when other people are punished by your hand who are trying so damn hard to be civil.
oh my god. my blood is positively boiling. I just figured it out. i better go about to get myself blocked. seriously.
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