Posted by alexandra_k on August 18, 2009, at 18:16:44
In reply to Re: Idealizing » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on August 18, 2009, at 15:04:19
> Many have been blocked protesting Dr. Bob's administration.
Are you sure about that? He doesn't seem to think that that is so.
> Why deprive yourself of a voice on the site in order to protest?
I'm not 'depriving myself' of anything. I don't enforce the rules here - Bob does. He chooses what he will do with his conduct. He chooses whether he will block me or whether he will not.
> Smarter than that how? Smarter than enforcing the guidelines on his own site? How is that not smart? Or in good conscience. By your own account, if he blocks some people for a behavior, he should block others for the same behavior. How is that unconscionable?
The idea is more that... Blocking someone for one year for saying 'sh*t' without an asterisk strikes me as too harsh. I wonder how the majority of people would feel about this if Bob did a survey. I wonder how the majority of psychiatrists would feel about this even. Do people really agree with him that a person who says `sh*t' without an asterisk is 'incivil' or 'indecent' or 'harmful to the community'? Do they really think that that justifies him blocking a person for up to one year? His intermittent enforcement (sometimes he will sometimes he won't) just compounds the problem. The solution isn't to enforce more. Analogy:
Some people might have their hand chopped off for theft. You know, steal something worth 5c - lose a hand. People do 'choose' to lose a hand insofar as they choose to steal - right Bob? Problem: Some people lose a hand, others do not. Maybe it is a little too harsh to remove a persons hand for theft. I know... Lets enforce the rule more consistently - somehow that is supposed to magically make everything okay???
(The point is that inconsistent enforcement compounds the problem. But this isn't to condone the act or to say that the solution is to more widely apply precisely that which is problematic).
But really... All this is... Simply a waste of breath, yeah. Cause really... It will just end up in the archives... Forgotten... LIke all the other complaints. But then... What complaints? Bob doesn't seem to think there are any... I'm just a random raver - right Bob?
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