Posted by special_k on March 23, 2006, at 22:10:38
In reply to Re: blocking question****Trigger-emotion)****, posted by JahL on March 23, 2006, at 21:50:42
> ....I agree that he appears not to fully appreciate the distress his often unnecessarily long blocks cause. I'm sure Bob is aware that he sometimes comes across as being rather 'detached', but then I guess the running of a board like demands he be that way
I agree that he doesn't seem to fully appreciate too. Maybe it is just because he does (intentionally i guess) come across as being relatively objective and detached... but also... i don't think he understands how much they hurt :-(
but then he has said the odd thing before about how blocks aren't so much about trying to punish the person who is blocked (in which case it would seem appropriate to tihnk about whether the punishment is appropriate to the person, say) as they are about protecting the community from repeat offences. but even then... :-( i don't know that he appreciates how much they can hurt.
i think that if he did appreciate... he wouldn't block people for so long / for such minor infractions. i really don't think he would.
not if he really understood how much they hurt :-(
> I've never been blocked (to my genuine surprise) and it wouldn't bother me if I wasi didn't think it would bother me either... until it happened to me :-( well... for a while i didn't think it would bother me... and i didnt think it would happen to me. and then it did. and it hurt so much. :-(
> - BUT for some people this place is substitute therapy - rightly or wrongly - and to have that taken away so suddenly, and often for so little...I imagine it can be a big deal.
yup.
> Imagine being 'uncivil' to your therapist and she tells you to b*gger off for 6 weeks...yup :-(
but then... bob goes easier on people being uncivil to him... worst blockings for offences against other posters. but still... i think other posters who might be hurting would benefit more from a genuine apology than the knowledge teh person has been blocked (unless they really did go off in the fairly much everyone agrees that that person should be blocked sense)
> Two themes emerge from all of the 'block'-related posts I've read; SENSE OF PROPORTION and APPLICATION OF COMMON SENSE. So blocks aren't the problem, just how they are applied.yep.
> FWIW I don't think blocks of more than 2 weeks serve any purpose.well... hate speech. but i think that is fairly rare...
> I'm not going to name drop, but when certain posters are sent into oblivion for seemingly minor infractions, the board as a whole loses out. This is a more important consideration IMO than the principle of punishment (which is all blocks are).
:-(
yeah. and other peoples on the board get scared. that it will happen to them :-( real scared :-(> If someone is clearly just out to disrupt the board then they should be banned, period, as is the way on most other sites.
yeah... or the current blocking thing could come into play. i have some sympathy for the notion that people who come to a mental healt h site might have... episodes.
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