Posted by so on June 11, 2005, at 15:22:27
In reply to Re: 3-complaint rule, posted by Dr. Bob on June 11, 2005, at 12:03:08
> Maybe I shouldn't wait for the button.
Why not? Because of the limited time you have budgeted as the sole programmer for the site?>One possibility might be to accept complaints that are "upheld", but to limit those that aren't. What if a 3rd (about a particular other poster's posts) that isn't were considered uncivil?
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> Bob
What happened to "Let's continue trying to work things out"? Has it become "Lets see what we can do to silence those who expose possible inconsistency in Robert Hsiung's administration of a mental health board?"Things that decrease access to bureaucratic remedies tend to increase the likelihood of untoward bureaucratic behavior.
Beyond damaging my ability to ask why people are allowed to write things that encourage me to feel put down, such as calling my laws hypocritical and pathetic, your proposal might contravene ethical guidelines established by yourself and your professional peers. Those ethical guidelines say public mental health forums should include the opporunity for members to report negative experiences and for those reports to be accessible to your peers. Now, ostensibly for the good of a group you have systematiclly selected over several years because of their tolerance for your unique administrative style, you seem to propose eliminating any sustained feedback that could expose to your peers inconsistencies in your administration. You propose that you become the sole arbiter not only of what is civil, but also of what criticisms presented to you about your decisions will be available to your peers and to prospective group members who might want to review your administrative style before deciding whether to participate in a potentially harmful activity.
Perhaps, as has been repeatedly suggested, you need to find another term than "civil" if you plan to continue as a psychiatrist creating arbitrary rules of behavior that define what you call civility, but which widely diverge from community practices on the Internet or from widely accepted definitions of civility. Systematically excluding people from access to administrative remedies is not consistent with what is considered civil in the vast majority of communities, especially among Western democratic populations.
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