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Simple Question.
Is the Blog for us to share opinions on many things as friends or just related to TG topics?
Most postings seem to be the former and I guess we all feel like sounding off sometimes when something happens that annoys us. But what are the guidelines?
I'm not so intereseted to restrict my comments to safe subjects so would rather not post. But I do understand if there is a risk to the persons responsible for the site.
So what is the opinion and the guideline please?
My posting about The Missing Girls appears to have been removed without explanation unless I missed it. This was a hot topic outside USA that has dominated the World News so I suppose it is sensitive.
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Guidelines on Blogs
Blogs can be about pretty much anything but political and religious blogs are likely to be demoted off the front page. Also blogs where the discussion descends into rants and calls for outrageous action or retaliation against someone are likely to get demoted.
That's what happened to your blog about the Missing Girls, some of the people responding wanted to vent their anger and frustration. The discussion was deteriorating, so I demoted it from the front page. If you click the link to your own blog, it is easily found. It wasn't the content of your post that got it demoted but the trend of the discussion. I could have deleted comments that were over the line but I chose instead to demote the blog and leave the comments alone since some of them had reasoned and thoughtful responses.
I seldom remove a blog entirely unless the original posting was pretty much a rant or something. The masthead says, "A Friendly Place," and I endeavor to keep it that way. There are plenty of other places to post more edgy stuff and I can offer anyone who wants i their own page to run as they see fit. Just ask. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Just read the latest
Comment on your previous blog, and I can see why Erin did what she did. Shame things go that way. :-(
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Sorry, Jules, I think that was my fault...
I'm a pretty emotional person as some here know. Sometimes my emotion and empathy for victims overrides my calm commonsense. I apologize with full contrition to those I offended... I should have expressed my disgust in a calmer manner.
As more comes out it become apparent that it was really a house of horrors: Hard to be calm in the face of such evil.
Your friend,
Ole
We are each exactly as God made us. God does not make mistakes!
Gender rights are the new civil rights!
Just be careful what the blog
is about as some blogs have caused problems from the way that some comment. Just follow Erin's advice about the site.
May Your Light Forever Shine
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because Erin was clear enough. The comments weren't so bad compared to the press accounts we are reading overseas.But even the press need to be controlled.
Emotion has to come out even if it is relegated to the back page that I fully understand.
The problem is now for USA again. How to punish the crime.
Nothing can turn back the clock and we can only imagine the horrors that went on.
How can such people walk around without somebody suspecting their abnormal or strange behaviour and making a complaint?
What would you feel if you were a criminal judge or sitting on a jury. Moreso a parent involved. How to be calm.
In China where I am just now there is no such crime reported. The authorities deal with the situation much better than we do in the West.
Yet they get such bad press that is not deserved.