Posted by Dr. Bob on July 16, 2013, at 12:54:04
In reply to Re: The big picture, posted by gardenergirl on July 13, 2013, at 17:58:35
> If Lou can compare your statements in a post to those outrageous, horrible things and instead of being reminded this is (**was** now, obviously) a civil place, you engage in more philosophizing and other ^&%$%, just imagine what Lou will feel free to say to me and other ordinary posters.
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> Pressure? Is it pressure when I ask the police to ticket people driving fast down a densely populated cul-de-sac where many children play, because they may hit someone? Harm, maim, or worse?
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> It is not okay, for me, that you elect abdication.
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> 10derheartYou're not a child. You could elect not to be hit. If you feel hurt reading what someone writes, you could stop reading what they write. What if you and Phillipa tried to help each other do that?
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> > You see, the argument that it {will be} good for the community as a whole is the same argument to justify infanticide...
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> Is it your accusation that because your notifications to the administrator of this tiny website are to be left outstanding, infanticide, genocide, slavery, segregation, and discrimination will result?
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> - ScottThat's a good point. Is there evidence of infanticide, genocide, slavery, segregation, discrimination -- or maiming -- here now? Or anxiety that there will be in the future?
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> You say you are willing to moderate. But not really. Not really.
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> 10derheart> Respectfully, Dr.Bob, if you say you are going to moderate, then our community does expect you to do so, in whatever way currently seems best to you.
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> TwinleafI'm moderating in the sense of "presiding over". When I'm notified of posts, I'm enforcing existing rules and responding either on the board or to the posters who notified me. One exception is that I think right now it may be good for this community as a whole, and for me, to leave some of Lou's notifications outstanding.
I'm also moderating in the sense of "lessening the intensity or extremeness of".
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> Where's the retweet button? I would so retweet this. :)
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> gardenergirlI'm glad you brought that up. :-)
3/4 of the posters on this thread have elected to disable the Facebook and Twitter buttons. I see that as voting to limit the visibility of Babble. Maybe I understand that better now. If Babble is a tiny cul-de-sac, then it may be more like a refuge.
Bob
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