Posted by rskontos on July 1, 2009, at 12:44:52
In reply to Re: block avoidance, posted by Dr. Bob on June 30, 2009, at 10:07:10
>>What I'm trying to shift is power. Or, to be more precise, self-efficacy, since we already share power. As I said before, I wonder if some posters may be attached (not by choice, of course) to feelings of powerlessness. But empathy, communication, reassurance, and checking in give you influence (a form of power). But the flip side of power is responsibility.>>>
Then give us some power. We don't have immunity if we try to help a poster not get blocked and it blows up in our face because you step in and block people right and left.
But I am steamed now. Already the amount of posters and posts etc are so far down and you try to shift the focus on it is because we don't "help" each other avoid blocks. Again, I feel this is a cop out.
Then to try and analyze us that we "want to feel powerless" Please don't assume you know how we feel. When we post how we feel and you read into it your own projections.
The bottom line is we, the posters, feel you, the administrator, are unfairly and to no avail using blocks in a way that hurts us all including the site and its number of daily posts and new threads. Being in part because we are losing those we feel for and miss. But I guess you just don't get that. You want to make us accountable but not yourself.
But again, as this argument goes on and on and on, your views won't change yet you expect us too. So how does that work.
We have no power Dr Bob. If we did the blocking formula would be changed. Period. You have it all.
How can we be part of the change when it is your opinion we are up against?
rsk
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