Posted by Zeba on September 8, 2008, at 21:43:03
In reply to Re: What is the opinion of the community on this?, posted by Marty on September 7, 2008, at 23:19:49
This will be my last post on this thread.
First of all I think there has been some misunderstanding of my position. So I will delininate them here.
1. I have never been in favor of eliminating posts of persons who say they are about to or are in the process of committing suicide. I think the posts should stay.
2. I believe that the boards are for helping each other. I have never suggested that only Dr. Bob could be of help to anyone.
3. I believe that suicides in process are rare on the boards here, and I do NOT think that babblers should have the only responsibilty for intervening in such cases. If you, Marty, had not known who this person is and how to find her, then I guess we would have had a successful suicide.
I am saying that Dr. Bob bears some reponsibility as it is his site, and he apparently is the only person who has access to someone's true email which then allows for finding the person. Perhaps the deputies should have access to the true emails as well. If someone where to talk about how they are suiciding on this site, then I think it would be more than unfortunate if no one could intervene, and we all had to sit by and let it happen. This is all I am saying.
I am NOT suggesting that Dr. Bob act like a psychiatrist per se. I AM saying this is his site, and as I already said, he does intervene when he thinks a post is uncivil. So, how is this that different??? What would be so awful about him or designees intervening in the situation we just had??? As I said in the previous post, what if you were laid up in the hospital with pneumonia, for example, Marty and did not know this person had even posted. Lets say you were so sick you were in a delerious fever state, what then? How would we have found out where this person is?
Perhaps there does need to be shared responsibility, but that means that there needs to be shared access to who the person might be, and my suggestion is that perhaps the deputies should have access to the real emails and have the capacity to then find the person so that someone can intervene.
Zeba
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