Posted by alexandra_k on May 6, 2009, at 18:19:29
In reply to Re: Subject line change » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on May 6, 2009, at 17:54:45
> If it did happen, I'd likely protest it. But it's more my nature, given my investment on Babble, to stay and protest it with words. With trying to convince Dr. Bob that the punishment didn't fit the crime, and that the rules needed to change.
And after several years of your protest being addressed with one liners alongside no real change then what would you do?
> He put in the autoasterisker, and he blames it if it doesn't catch stuff, unless someone turned it off or clearly went to an effort to get around it. We protested, things changed.
'Clearly went to an effort to get around it'. You mean like making a typo in how you spell a swearword?
Once again the issue becomes other than the arbitrary enforcement of the rules significantly compounded by a one year blocking system that escalates up in a way that nobody seems to understand.
The swearing example provides the clearest case of a one year block for something that didn't hurt anyone (but where the block hurt the poster considerably).
He never did apologize.
During the one year block when he had much time to reconsider...
Did he reconsider at all? Or did he do his usual move of 'I've decided you can come back early' (usually received about one day before the actual block is up)?
There are more... This is just the least controversial tip of the iceburg...
I'm seeing... No real change. And... I can't bring it on myself to change to accept this behavior. And... He can't bring it upon himself to change. So... There it is.
I'm sick of going round and round. We aren't the crazy ones for thinking there is something wrong with the blocking system here. Seems that Bob stopped asking other professionals along to participate because they struggled significantly with what he was doing with his blocking policy (they weren't able to support it).
People have politely pointed all this out to him over years now... And he... Refuses to address the issue. Reverts to 'my way or total chaos and hate speech' or 'my one liners which don't address the issue or I won't post at all' or 'do people really think that people should be allowed to post hate speech to one another?'
Hate speech...
'F*rt' without an asterisk...I'm not really seeing the analogy.
But I'm sick of playing games. I don't want my friends to feel like in order to be my friend they need to emotionally manipulate me into seeing the sense behind / being motivated to tow Bob's line. I don't want my friends to think... That I'm an uncivil or disrespectful person. But I've been blocked so many times now... If incivility and disrespect means what Bob thinks they mean then really I must be an uncivil and disrespectul person to be blocked so... Strangely enough its being blocked even when I was being civil and respectful (according to my understanding of the terms) that resulted in my becoming uncivil and disrespectful (according to my understanding of the terms). Wow. Seems the blocking system has helped me immensely. But its not supposed to be about individuals its supposed to be for the good of the group. So... Blocking me must have been for the good of the group. What else justifies it???
Whatever.
Feeling a little sick now and I want to get off. I'm not prepared to stay here and see others be harmed by Bob. I'm not prepared to stay here and be harmed by Bob myself.
Some people were trained up... So Bob is happy with them. Good for Bob. I'm not so terribly sure... That things are good for them. And there it is.
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