Posted by Larry Hoover on August 5, 2003, at 23:00:26
In reply to Re: Bob, please consider a PBC for Larry » wendy b., posted by Ame Sans Vie on August 5, 2003, at 12:39:10
> > > I don't know CAM, but if he was "driven away" because of inappropriate postings resulting in blocks, then he must be a slow learner.
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> > Now, this one I find really offensive. Read the archives, Larry, they're there for a reason. Cam is a guy who generously gave of his time and helped many people with medication questions. As a pharmacist, he spent endless hours looking up citations and posting them, advising about meds, etc., even though he himself was in a terrible amount of emotional pain. So, please, Larry, don't assess someone else's motivations or intellectual capacity (calling him a "slow learner") when you aren't familiar with the person or his posts. This is just simple politeness.
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> Okay, this one I agree was a violation.Unfortunately, you both have misunderstood my intent; the referent to "slow learner" wasn't meant to be Cam, or anyone in particular. In saying I didn't know Cam, I was suggesting that I could not discuss him as an example. I was emphasizing the issue I had been raising repetitively throughout my posts of this a.m., about inappropriate attribution of responsibility. You simply cannot be "driven away" from Babble. Until such time as there is a rule which can lead to a permanent ban, that will remain the case.
Repeated violations of the rules, resulting in increasing times of blockade, *without the poster coming to recognize that it is becoming harder and harder to continue posting solely because of the poster's own behaviour*, would constitute an inability to learn from the pattern. Such a person would be slow to learn that it isn't the rules that are a problem, it isn't Bob, it's the poster's failure to expend the effort to change their own posting behaviour. And, if the poster chooses to move on, that is not being driven away. It's a decision to move on. Nothing more than that.
I'm sorry that my syntax left the impression that I was labelling Cam. That was not my intent.
Lar
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