Posted by Nickengland on August 4, 2005, at 14:08:33
In reply to I think it's ironic, posted by gabbii on August 4, 2005, at 13:12:18
Hi Gabbii..
I hear what you are saying and I know there is an ironic sense to that.
I'm not nessasaraly defending the rules of the site and i'm not opposing them either. I really prefer as much as possible to take a neutral stance where I can on these kind of issues, otherwise i'll be taking sides and thats not what I want to do...
Imagine though, you took away the civility rules of the site. Or even took away all rules. I'm sure you'd agree there would be a high level of anarchy?
At one point or another you would have to introduce some kind of rules, all internet forums have them I imagine. The thing is where do you draw the line so that everyone can get along with the rules..the idea of being 'civil' to one another isn't that bad is it?
I think what really opposes people to these rules is what one persons idea of being civil is, to what another persons idea of being civil is, and in this case its Dr Bob. He is judge, jury and executioner so to speak. If you don't agree on what he thinks is civil or not in some cases then you certainly are going to feel hostile if you get blocked or warned or see anyone else blocked or warned when you dont think they did anything wrong.
The civilty rules I guess are not the only way to administor a forum... I guess you can have a hand full of modorators and administrators etc that are always on hand. Perhaps in those cases though, the site owner isn't a psychiatrist with a vested interested in monitoring behaviour, if you know what I mean.
It swings and roundabouts, perhaps some people simply will not ever get along here because they can't agree with the way the civily rules are run....but they will be very, very happy in another mental health forum with different rules?
And then you know...there are some people who just don't like rules ;-)
Kind regards
Nick
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