Well we did have that one other individual who was attacking the entire enterprise of psychology. Remember, he was "found out" because of his well-publicized attacks elsewhere and "moved on" pretty quickly. But that's all I can remember in the past 15 years.
On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:20 PM, ku...@plymouth.edu wrote: > > True true. I have been on for about that long too. thanks beth for > giving me somerthing more to ponder..... > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular > From: Beth Benoit <beth.ben...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:06:51 -0400 > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > (TIPS)<tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS > > > John, > > I appreciate your Zen wisdom, and can appreciate the > next-year-it-may-be-someone-else concept, but since 1993 (my first > year on TIPS), no one on TIPS has ever made the suggestion that > someone be removed. I think that's a pretty good record of tolerance. > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > Plymouth State University > New Hampshire > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, John Kulig <ku...@mail.plymouth.edu> > wrote: >> >> Claudia .. thanks, you inspired me to throw in $.02 >> >> I'm only an amateur when it comes to social psychology, but I am >> pretty sure scapegoating always happens in groups sooner or later. >> When you study scapegoating (e.g. the French anthropologist Rene >> Girard) you realize scapegoats usually bring it on themselves (more >> or less), they are never randomly drawn from the population ... so >> the group is also a participant. >> >> While I understand the desire to "vote" on whether one person should >> be excluded, I will not do it. It feels too ugly to me. ALL groups >> end up with someone who we think deserves to be kicked out, but I >> would rather try to buck Girard-like "human nature" and fill posts >> with other threads. I think it's a signal-to-noise ratio issue. I do >> not want to start a tradition of voting on exclusion. I think it is a >> bad road to start down. Also, the internet is inherently open and >> that will not change unless TIPs becomes a gated community which I >> would oppose. That being said, most posters on ANY group will tick >> others off sooner or later, and some people will routinely tick off >> most everyone. It's the nature of the medium. >> >> FINALLY, let's take advantage of social diffusion. An email stares >> at YOU in the face, but it is actually directed at no one person in >> particular, it is - electronically - diffused across all members of >> the group. Remember the old zen habit of visualizing a person's >> comments as an arrow that may be aimed at you, but then flies past >> you. One more finally: maybe there is something in human nature that >> always itches for a fight. I am (half) mystified why people cannot >> resisting responding to posts they want extinguished. If one person >> is voted on, there may be another next year and that's not a >> tradition I want to see started. >> >> >> -------------------------- >> John W. Kulig >> Professor of Psychology >> Plymouth State University >> Plymouth NH 03264 >> -------------------------- >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Claudia Stanny" <csta...@uwf.edu> >> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" >> <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:58:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada >> Eastern >> Subject: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I am violating my policy of refusing to respond to any post >> initiated in response to an inappropriate off-topic post or posts >> that use offensive language. >> >> >> >> I am saddened that TIPS has devolved into a sandbox of abusive and >> semi-abusive posts. >> >> I am offended by the posts that initiate these threads. >> >> I am ashamed of the manner in which some members respond to these >> threads. >> >> I have been ashamed of some of my own responses to these threads. >> >> I may yet regret this response. >> >> >> >> However, if it serves to assist Bill in his efforts to restore >> civility and purpose to the culture of this list, I will take this >> risk. >> >> >> >> Thanks, Bill, for all you have done to create this community. It has >> been a beneficial component of my scholarly community over the years. >> If I can help contribute to sustaining that community, I will do what >> I can. >> >> >> >> At present, I’ve adopted silence as my strategy, but I realize that >> this strategy also creates some unpleasant unintended consequences. >> >> >> >> Claudia J. 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