Posted by Lou Pilder on August 3, 2013, at 8:25:24
In reply to Re: a refuge, posted by Dr. Bob on July 16, 2013, at 12:54:04
> > 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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> > 10derheart
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> You'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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> > - Scott
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> That'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
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> > 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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> > Twinleaf
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> I'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.
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> 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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> > gardenergirl
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> I'm glad you brought that up. :-)
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> 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.
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> BobMr Hsiung,
In reading what you have posted here, I see:
A.[...is there evidence of discrimination...?]
This is in the line that starts with,[That's a good point]
B.[...When I am notified of posts I'm enforcing existing rules and responding either on the board or to the posters that notified me...]
C. [... 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...].
This brings up the following concerns that I have in regards to what you have posted here about me. If you could post answers to the following, then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly. In a previous post by you in this thread, you stated that discrimination along with genocide and such is an {abuse of power}.
A. If by you leaving some of my notifications outstanding, does that or does that not constitute discrimination by you in your moderation here? If not, why not?
B. If the leaving of any of my notifications outstanding is discrimination by you here, is that then an abuse of power by you?
C. If you claim that you are doing what will be good for this community as a whole and for yourself to leave some of my notification outstanding, then does that in your thinking override an {abuse of power}, if you agree that by you doing that discrimination results?
D. Then if you agree that you can discriminate, if you agree that by leaving some of my notifications outstanding constitutes discrimination, which you state is an abuse of power, on the basis that the discrimination will be good for this community as a whole and for you, then in your thinking could not a state commit genocide if they claim that by doing so their state will be better, or good for their state as a whole, or even for the leader? And would that also go for infanticide, slavery, segregation and such in your thinking?
E. What "good" will come to this community or to you by you leaving some of my notifications outstanding?
Lou Pilder
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:1046456
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20130702/msgs/1048218.html