Posted by gardenergirl on June 14, 2006, at 13:47:36
In reply to Re: the power to hurt, posted by Dr. Bob on June 14, 2006, at 9:40:02
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> What I hear is that posters feel (1) hurt and angry when their friends are hurt (for example, by being blocked) and (2) powerless when I insist on doing something they're opposed to. Is that close?Thanks for responding to muffled's request for reflecting. I think you've got some of it, but I wanted to add my tweaks, box of salt included.
1) I don't think it's just about when a friend is blocked. I think it can be about any block regardless of whether the person is a friend or not.
2) I think powerless is correct. But also perhaps devalued, because I believe that many do not feel as if their questions are adequately addressed in your replies.And I would add 3) Many are not happy with the blocking policy in general. My interpretation of many recent posts is that they are not so much about estella's block in particular, but about wanting to talk about their feelings about the policy and its implementation in general. Estella's recent block, as many blocks do, stimulated these feelings coming out again.
Muffled or others, please feel free to tweak my reflecting here, as I may be missing something or not presenting it just right.
Questions for Dr. Bob:
-Are even you willing to give serious and thoughtful consideration to making more changes to the blocking policy? Because if you are not, then that would be a very useful piece of information for those who are trying so hard to be heard.
-If you are not willing to make any changes at this time, would you consider spelling out in some detail the purposes, intents, and goals of the blocking policy in enough detail so that Babblers can better understand what the policy is there for?
-If you are willing to consider making changes, how would you like to get posters' input and to discuss changes? Some ideas: we could continue to post to a thread, and perhaps someone could periodically summarize ideas so that none get lost and the conversation has some structure to it. (This might help you in replying if info is summarized into one post now and then. Or, we could put together a "task force" or committee who can formulate ideas and proposals, put out those agreed upon to the group for comment, etc. Or the deputies and you can discuss it, although we have in the past without much consensus.
Any other ideas?
gg
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