Posted by Fallen4MyT on December 30, 2006, at 0:09:30
In reply to Re: Would it be helpful or even possible/poss *tri » Fallen4MyT, posted by Dinah on December 29, 2006, at 9:17:02
I do feel it has become much worse. There are far too many threats of suicide IF this or that does or does not happen. This was never seen on the site before. If you can post the links to them please do but I only know of 1 poster...minus the one Dr Bob had to contact the ISP WHICH resulted in the cops being sent out....doing this.
I do realize that Dr Bob is not always on..that is why in my post I suggested auto astrick and or blocking for this type of activity...OR other suggestions to stop these suicide threats...ESPECIALLY the ones others have referred to as manipulative.
> Since it was always posters responding, I imagine that it was posters who said call 911, not Dr. Bob.
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> 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.
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> People get angry once in a while when they're feeling particularly frustrated, and always have.
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> 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.
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> 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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