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Susan, could you consider not doing what you just did with Mister Disco's post? It's a bit painful to read.
Otherwise, questions:
Am I the only person that it didn't really bother at all?
Probably not - have a look at this thread. A fair few people appear to have expressed a lack of botheration.
There’s an element of bridling at the injustice here, isn’t there?
I doubt it; I doubt that any male-identifying poster of significant prominence has not had some flirtatious approach from Kali at some point. I would be surprised if it hasn't happened to Flyboy. In the main, I think members have recognised that this is not a paradigm that would necessarily benefit either one of them, and maintained distance.
Being offtopic is explicitly tolerated in the Conversation/ And I don’t think it’s about going off topic because it wasn’t even off-topic.
The first of these observations is not as fully mapped out as you'd think. Have a look at recent developments in the Moderation Requests thread, where posts were being moved for deletion from the Conversation, one argument for which was that they were offtopic, although not _only_ that they were offtopic. It is, however, worth noting in this case that the introduction of putting the rat up the sexy drainpipe, to use Our Lady's truly horrifying phrase, was put into the Barbe-crush thread - that is, it was filling a thread on liking people for their contributions to Barbelith with offtopic posts about liking people because they have emailed you pics and you fancy them and would like to make the sex. We kind of have the photos thread for that, which has a far better pedigree of earcock.
I agree that this is probably not a Policy issue, anyway, unless we're prepared to argue that attention-seeking displays of needy het flirting are a form of harassment. I think that this particular piece is egregious, and its egregious because it's saddening, but people have the right to depress me on Barbelith as long as they don't do it in a way actively harmful to the board. If we move it to the Policy it might also siphon off the posts about this currently rotting "Your watch".
Incidentally, wankstaingate has been discussed at length, and is being discussed, in various other threads, most recently the most recent thread on "bullying". I suggest you take it up there, if you think it would be useful. |
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