Posted by jane d on November 10, 2010, at 22:46:22
I was curious reading some of the posts above suggesting that blocking was rampant since those claims didn't match my recollection. So I tried to calculate just how many blocks there really were over the last year. I came up with*
40 blocks total
20 separate posters blocked
5 posters currently blockedThis is a rough count but it sure doesn't look like an epidemic to me.
I also went back and read the original post on many of these and sometimes the entire thread. I didn't see much evidence for the claim that posters are tripped up by rules they don't understand or for innocent slips of the tongue.
jane
*These numbers came from searching for posts by Bob or a deputy with "block" in the subject line on all currently open boards and the associated archives going back one year.
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