Posted by confuzyq on June 18, 2007, at 19:12:55
In reply to Re: blocked for 6 weeks » MCK, posted by Dr. Bob on June 17, 2007, at 17:25:02
This isn't related to these blocks, I haven't even looked at them yet. It's just an observation I've always wanted to make. (Maybe should have put it in its own thread.)
I don't think this line that always appears in the standard blocking formula posting makes sense, or at least in enough cases to leave it in for *every* block:
> clearly didn't understand PBC and made effort to reply: no
...because, it has been affirmed that once a poster has ever received a PBC, at any time -- could have been weeks or months ago or longer -- they can then be instantly blocked with no warning thereafter. It varies greatly as to whether a poster will in fact get a PBC or Please Rephrase before the block at hand.
Many seem to be under the impression that there is *always* a warning first *somewhere* -- on another of the boards if not the one the block occurred on -- very close to the time of any block for a person.
But since it has been confirmed that that is not always the case, I don't think it puts a fair light on things to leave in the block calculation line above, which makes it sound like in that case and every case each person DID have time to "not understand and make effort to reply." And for some people who have received multiple blocks with no more prior warnings, you would have to be forever re-using whatever their original reaction was to their original (or a distant) PBC, to fill in that answer. Just doesn't sit right by my logic...
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