Posted by Happyflower on April 21, 2007, at 10:14:46
In reply to Re: I don't know that any have been reviewed » Happyflower, posted by gardenergirl on April 21, 2007, at 9:35:37
> > So are you saying that a thread HAS to be reported by someone in order for a deputy or Dr. Bob to do anything about it?
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> That's not at all what I'm saying. I was talking about a specific thread. I said that I don't know that anyone has reviewed the thread for civility, and I pointed out that no action now does not necessarily equal no action laterIf deputies have responed on that thread is it wrong to assume they have reviewed it?
. If you extrapolate to the general based on one specific data point, you run a higher risk of forming an incorrect heuristic.
This is why I asked you about it, to clarify what you meant.
> > I thought that was just only PART of the system. I believe most deputies have read the posts without it being reported, and nothing happened.
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> On what do you base this belief? You haven't asked me if I've read them, though I'm just one deputy. Have you asked any of the others? I don't know if any of the other deputies have or have not read the thread. Even if any have, none of us ever *have to* act on something. We can always choose to defer the matter to the other deputies and/or Dr. Bob for whatever reason. And we have done so in other situations for a variety of reasons. http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#have-toOkay this tells me a lot. I think the "don't have to" causes a lot esculation in problems because we count on deputies to act on it, if they can choose not to act on it, we don't know the reasons, what if it is because they like the poster, and don't want to hurt them with an action. What if they don't like the poster, and they really want to "stick it to them" because they personally don't like the poster. This "don't have to respond" leaves the actions of deputies open to their subjective views and not based on objective basis. There is especially true when they hold a duel role here.
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> > So based on this, since you are the enforcers of babble , that it IS accepted here, because lack of any action seems to prove that to me.
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> I come to a different conclusion, though my thought process is based on a different data set. Remember, you can't prove a negative. You can always assume one, but that increases your chances for error.
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> Namaste
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> gg
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