Maha, I have returned here to try to address some of the concerns that might have led to you asking me a question that I don’t feel able to answer because I am watching a conversation play out in the Facebook group where it seems to me that misunderstandings are being reinforced. Anyway back to your question. You asked “Is there something I should have done differently that would have resulted in no one getting hurt?” We can’t always know when we have unwittingly made a mistake and knowing about it relies on communication, preferably directly between affected parties. Here is an example of a mistake that I made and worked with another to try to put it right https://francesbell.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/open-access-and-social-media-networking-around-a-scholarly-article-shadymooc/#comment-1514 The misunderstanding stemmed from me lacking the context to understand a post that someone had made to the Facebook group. Interestingly, a different location from the Facebook group or my blog was chosen to reveal this and it was quite by chance that I discovered it.
I understand your desire to know if you personally did or said something that might have hurt someone but I can’t even imagine how such personal and detailed information would appear in our data or why we would reveal that even if it did and our privacy agreement allowed it. I am pleased that we are having some productive engagement with ideas in the paper across the blogs and I hope that continues in weeks to come.
The second part of your question refers to no-one getting hurt – in the last para of my long comment on Keith’s blog I explain some of my ideas about how ethical principles can be used even when they are potentially in conflict with each other. I hope that and my example above makes clear why I don’t think we can guarantee no hurt.
I do hope that the first and any subsequent papers we have published can contribute to discussions on effective communication in learning online. I suspect that any group trying to reflect on a past experience would by looking at ‘tricky’ incidents would get much more traction out of thinking about how things might be different in future than trying to apportion blame.
So back to the current FB group conversation that I am observing. It seems likely to me that many of the people engaging there think that I am claiming that I was attacked in recent discussion threads. I haven’t claimed that in my blog or any of the blog discussions in which I have engaged. I am not blaming any individual for that but I can tell you it seems unfair to me.
A simple solution might seem to be for to me make this point in the Facebook group but I don’t think that would make any difference.