Posted by Racer on September 9, 2008, at 0:19:03
In reply to Re: what??????, posted by 10derHeart on September 8, 2008, at 16:41:28
10derHeart and I disagree on a number of points -- which I consider a strength of the multiple deputy system -- so I'd like to add my voice to this thread.
First our biggest disagreement: I think 10der is a great deputy -- I wish I had anywhere near her ability to convey compassion, even when she's writing a PBC. She works tremendously hard for this community, and I am very grateful to her for her efforts.
Unlike 10der, I'd be willing to take more responsibility regarding suicidal posts -- and I do take a certain amount of behind-the-scenes action on them. We do not have access to email addresses -- and Zeba, I think Dinah was referring to anonymous email accounts, such as Excite or Yahoo, which can't be used to identify the user -- nor to real names nor any other identifying information. I am not in favor of giving me access to information, by the way, due to privacy issues. I think it protects the posters here that we don't have that information.
I'm not comfortable identifying what steps I have taken in these situations, but please be assured that the administration did take action.
Unfortunately, none of us thought to post anything on that thread. I chose not to, because I was afraid that the poster in question would read it and take evasive action of some sort. Nonetheless, it would have been nice if we'd let the rest of the board know that something had been done. When Dr Bob requested that someone post a note on the main thread, he was referring -- as has been mentioned before -- only to the notification on the main thread, NOT to taking direct action for the poster.
I hope that helps ease the fears this situation brought on for everyone here. Even if we don't always communicate it here, we do act to the best of our ability on issues such as this one.
poster:Racer
thread:850103
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20080719/msgs/851113.html