Posted by Nadezda on June 23, 2009, at 11:06:04
In reply to Re: Rules - Recommended Changes » Nadezda, posted by Dinah on June 22, 2009, at 16:33:26
Hi, Dinah.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest in any way (underlined) that the deputies act from favoritism or choose to go after certain people-- or that Bob does.
Selection prosecution (to use a legal metaphor) is inevitable-- just in general-- plus, since the system often relies on posters to notify the deputies- it brings certain posts to their attention.
For entirely inevitable reasons, some people will be sanctioned and others won't, for what seem (to us, or me) to be possibly uncivil posts--- and in a small community like this, where we have close connections-- selective prosecution has a different impact from what it does in large, diffuse groups-- ie if someone in another part of NYC or Chicago is prosecuted, I don't know about it--or if I do, I have no personal connection to it; if someone on the psychology board in a thread that I haven't read gets blocked, I do-- and I probably have interacted and care about that person. So it has a different impact. So a necessary fact-- selective PBCing and blocking--- causes much more turmoil in a large percentage of participants-- which isn't true in life in general.
My point really, though, was only that: good reasons and intentions can create an experience of not understanding in the person who isn't on the inside and doesn't see how careful and considerate the deputies are really being-- doesn't fully know how the process works to lead to certain blocks or PBCs and not others.
It's no one's fault-- at all-- it's just very unfortunate when people are hurt and don't understand.
best, Nadezda
PS I do wonder, though, if people don't sometimes feel that the deputies are immune from PBCs and blocks-- and if this doesn't, whether true or not, also cause some tension.And it may be harder for deputies to know how it feels on the "outside" and I think it's up to posters like me to try to communicate what some of our anxieties and limitations of insight are. ("outside" and "inside" may be charged terms-- but I simply mean that the deputies are inside the process and the posters are outside it, and only see its results-- and often may misinterpret them)
PPS I really will stop soon with all this posting--But that last thing I want to do is to hurt your feelings or in any way be taken to suggest that you or the other deputies have anything other than my respect and thanks for how caringly and responsibly you do your job.
N
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