Posted by Dinah on August 17, 2010, at 21:35:46
In reply to Re: new members » Dr. Bob, posted by sigismund on August 17, 2010, at 17:59:16
Did the twitter/facebook contretemps involve the civility guidelines? I thought it was the concerns about privacy and safety.
I suppose it goes to show that we all remember things a bit differently.
But I'm not sure I'd put a reluctance to have new members on the list.
Hmmm... I think there was some feeling that Dr. Bob cared more about getting new people on Twitter and wasn't as concerned with addressing the needs of older posters.
I suppose that could loosely be considered sibling rivalry. Though I'd consider it more about the perception of whether or not Dr. Bob was respecting us. The possibility of hordes of new members were tangential to the real interpersonal issue. The issue was between Bob and posters, not between posters and potential posters.
Respect. Concern. Responsiveness. Those are things that people need to feel valued. If he had framed it so that older posters felt respected, heard, and valued, Babblers would have felt less resentment to the process. I don't think any resentment was involved towards the actual new posters.
It's between you and the posters, Dr. Bob. Not between current posters and potential posters.
Of course that's aside from the less interpersonal concerns of safety and privacy and the indiscriminate excerpting of our private and personal thoughts.
And of course, that's just how I remember it.
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