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

To: one_less who wrote (47317)	5/14/2002 5:24:34 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Most of the people here are not engaged in a screw job just out of some sort of pack mentality. Surely you have seen the efforts to encourage a positive outcome. I would be fascinated to have an objective observer comment on this. If you want a positive outcome, it is still waiting on the table to be picked up. But as I have posted, that no longer seems to be the concern.

To: one_less who wrote (47317)	5/14/2002 5:30:47 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Based on the communications I have had with Chris, I don't see any way to reach a resolution that doesn't involve legal authority. sorry to say. Not sure why you say that. You yourself laid out the definition of to-or-about agreements as they are understood on SI. I said I would agree to accept such an agreement with Poet, on your own terms, if the posting restrictions placed on me as a consequence of my posting relationship with Poet were removed. That offer still stands. It requires no legal authority. So I don't understand your statement.

To: one_less who wrote (47317)	5/14/2002 5:35:37 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Chris created many of his own problems. I said that in my initial post on this yesterday. I think he actually thinks that Poet is being spiteful, will cool off and let him off the hook. After all, people vow to leave a thread, or SI, all the time, then come back. Friends fall out, enemies become chummy. I have seen many rounds of social interaction. It is like the fruit fly experiments, to show genetic variation. The life cycle is accelerated, so the fruit fly lends itself to demonstrating Mendel's theorems. Similarly with the threads. Interaction is so intense that it is an accelerated model of social relations. Anyway, he may be deluded, or, in any case, making himself look bad, but suppose that he feels bad about his part of it, but doesn't think he deserves such harsh treatment. Wanting the other party to relent is not unusual. Thus, in his mind, this is between him and Poet, and the rest is uninformed interference. Sometimes he has tolerated it better than others, but he mainly dislikes being on the spot about it, and like a teenager, is loathe to give straight answers to questions he resents. Like the average parent, people are taking his behavior as a sort of proof of guilt. It is not. All it proves is that he does not like being questioned and "handled", regardless of the reason. Finally, whether there is a legal resolution possible is dubious. What is he going to be charged with? Addressing himself to someone who can put him on ignore?