Which is, of course, why she does not edit, delete, or ban anyone with whom she disagrees because banning would discourage newcomers and people with different fresh ideas, right? Right. I guess, seeing as what a strong supporter of free thought and the expression of differing points of view she is, it hurts Ophelia more than it does anyone else when she is forced strongly against her will to edit, delete, and ban. Oh, the pain of it all.I really don’t want to divide people into insiders and outsiders here. That’s junior high school stuff, you can’t sit at our lunch table stuff. I want new people – aka “outsiders†– to read and enjoy and join the discussion.
And, of course, Ophelia never, ever allows her favoured commenters to pile on and group-bully any of those welcome outsiders, right? Right. Free from thought in action. Or should that be free thought inaction?Now…some of that insider v outsider happens anyway, or as it were “naturally†– i.e. without anyone spelling out that that’s what we’re doing. But if that is what we’re doing…well we shouldn’t be.
And, of course, if Ohelia is anything, it's nice, right? Right.But I don’t want us pouncing on anyone who’s new here as if this were a club with a secret code ...that’s just a barrier to new people. Plus…well, it ain’t nice.
Same as it ever was. Butterlies and Chinese Whispers. She is so completely full of shit. Ophelia, shit-for-brains, we're scolding the whole lot of you. How selective is that?On the other hand the goons themselves help to elicit it, by being so goonish, by trolling, by being so selective in whom they scold – so that’s part of why we get so defensive. But let’s not. Let’s try to assume people have good intentions unless they make it obvious that they don’t.
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