Posted by Dinah on December 29, 2006, at 9:17:02
In reply to Re: Would it be helpful or even possible/poss *trigger, posted by Fallen4MyT on December 28, 2006, at 22:56:40
Since it was always posters responding, I imagine that it was posters who said call 911, not Dr. Bob.
I've been here 5 1/2 years. Perhaps you've been here longer. But I don't see that things have changed significantly in this regard since I've been here. Posters talk to suicidal posters now more or less as they did before.
People get angry once in a while when they're feeling particularly frustrated, and always have.
Dr. Bob has never blocked people for expressing suicidal intent, and it would appear from his recent post that he's not open to starting now.
And while he *has* been known to report a post to the police (or rather to the poster's ISP), I don't think it could be considered a policy. For one thing, he isn't on board for stretches at a time, and only he has the information to report a post to a posters ISP. So it couldn't possibly be consistently enforced. Relying on him to report a post would be a very bad idea, because he just isn't around consistently enough to do anything regularly on a timely basis.
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