Snapshot of the block lists

[izzybeans]

I was interested in all the discussion about the ins and outs and dos and don'ts of the block list. So I took a snapshot of one page at a moment in time in GD and counted all the block-lists, the number of OPs (each poster counted once) and the number of posters on their block list.

Rather than a DU divided I found that out of 69 posters starting a thread on page one, only five had a block list. This added up to a grand total of nine total blocked from participating in the thread. One of these posters had expressed that there was a miscommunication on his blocking and was going to remove it when the time frame expired. I have one person on my list, so I suppose you can interchange my blockee with this mistaken one and assume that very few people are getting blocked. I am in the minority.

This is only a snapshot and in no way reflects a representative sample of DU, but it was telling of a given moment on DU. I'm sure the admins could publish the true number with it all broken down. I think that would answer some of the concerns of those who feel that DU has somehow been torn apart by this minor change.

Anyway Merry Fitzmas...this is still a good day.

P.S. this took about five minutes.

[seabeyond]

1. telling ya though

i am bad. i am having a little bit of fun seeing who blocks, who does not. and who they blocked. hm... interesting work up. i wet thru a handful of threads to see what the list button looked like, and took me about 6, 7, 8 threads to find someone who had used block. i felt good. and not many names one the few lists i have seen. actually all 3 or 4 i have seen only one name on each

[izzybeans]

2. I feel the same way (bad, naughty?) but I think the admins are right about

it providing some incentive to civility in the long run. We'll see...

Anyway I think I broke a rule starting this thread so it may get locked in a moment. I alerted on myself. :)

[EarlG]

3. Locking

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