Posted by MisterB on August 3, 2000, at 22:18:03
In reply to Posting @ Psychobabble seems slow…, posted by Janice on July 27, 2000, at 23:23:08
There is another reason posting at Pbabble might be down from previous weeks ... maybe Pbabble is not as interesting as it was in recent weeks.
For my part, I did find the registration system to be totally unworkable at first. I repeatedly registered and received no registration number. After I started using several masking techniques such as using a different Internet service provider, and a different e-mail address, I was able to register a handle. Robert Hsuing later told me my other handle should now register, but I haven't lately tried, so I don't know what's up with that.
Far from the supportive community PBabble appears on the surface, I found the board to be inhabited by at least several hostile and derisive individuals who were not prepared to consider points of view that do not match their own. I found some individuals holding others responsible for the individuals' own feelings, and I found a licensed medical doctor telling people that yes, person A is responsible for person B's feelings.
Some acuse me of pushing people's buttons, but my perception is that people loaded with buttons tend to wear chips on their shoulders, waiting for someone to accidentally knock them off. Characterizing others with whom one does not agree as an aggressor is a classic rhetorical technique for defense and for control.
Also discouraging me from posting was the way others were attacked for the content of my posts, and several regular individuals on the board were repeatedly diminished by others who said I was the one creating some of the regulars. Very dehumanizing, to say the least. A classic counterinsurgency tactic is to identify all dissidents as one person, or one group, and then to discredit, threaten, abuse or destroy that one person or group.
I identified my handles as psuedoBBobs, and made it clear that I was not these other people. The continued corruption of mine and others' personal boundaries was certainly discouraging. I consider it civil of people to accept me for who I am - in this case I am a pers
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