Posted by Dr. Bob on July 16, 2009, at 8:38:58
In reply to I'm a little befuddled now as well., posted by seldomseen on July 16, 2009, at 6:31:04
> I don't even know what my responsibility is as a poster anymore.
The idea is to be a supportive community. It's more supportive when it's civil. But incivility is inevitable. When there's been incivility, the community can support both the poster who was hurt and the poster who was uncivil.
Another poster can help by supporting one or the other or both. If one isn't receiving any support, support for them would be especially helpful. But just not being uncivil helps, too.
One way of supporting the poster who was uncivil is to help them avoid a block. That way, they would continue to benefit from Babble, Babble would continue to benefit from them, and of course a block would be avoided.
Is that more clear?
Bob
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