Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (37227)	11/17/2001 10:10:00 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Looks like you and I are in agreement. No. We are not. "I suggested several ways for someone who doesn't want to read my posts to avoid doing so." She wasn't suggesting you stop reading her posts--or her, your posts. She simply did not want to engage with you--face to face , as it were...for personal reasons. So, I think we are in agreement. The only rationale for you ignoring this sincere request is intrapsychic confusion or shame. Who knows, which??

To: The Philosopher who wrote (37227)	11/17/2001 10:47:01 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Christopher, the Ignore feature isn't any good. Try it, you'll see its many shortcomings. In my eyes, insisting on posting to someone who has begged you not to makes you look like a bully. All it says is that you have had the power with your law degree to make protecting one of their members too costly to SI, and thus to be able to force your posts on a woman who finds you frightening and distasteful. You posted to Poet so viciously that reading that post caused me to end an underlying friendship with you that you and I had managed to maintain, in spite of differences, for, literally, years. (Others disapproved, too, and the post was removed.) All you have to do to be a gentleman, or a gentleperson, a considerate person, a non-bully, is to continue to express every view you want to express-- but merely not address them to Poet, or refer to her personally. Isn't it enough of a victory that your threat to sue SI worked? Can't you rest with that, and not intrude on someone who is deeply disturbed by any attentions at all from you? Knowing that it upsets her, why would you nonetheless insist on thrusting your posts into Poet's inbox?