Thursday, November 8, 2007
The violation I reported fell into this category
"As in real life, activities such as verbal assault, name-calling, and harassment -- including racial, religious and sexual harassment -- carry penalties. For example, it is not acceptable to use profanity, vulgarity or hate speech against another member. Penalties may include account suspension or termination, and a report to the proper authorities if warranted. To learn more about verbal abuse and its impact on others, please see the
Verbal/Emotional Abuse page on Suite 101 and the
psychological abuse directory on Google."
If you're going to delete my post
- a sample of negativity be written in here - then at the very least please respond to my complaint which I
did submit initially in the proper manner (to you). As I did not receive a sufficient reply beyond "we will investigate", I posted it in here to bring it to your attention again.
A reminder
Since we have received a couple of emails expressing confusion on this issue, we would like to assure everyone that in the rare case in which we have to suspend an account, but the owner is unable to copy their blog entries in the allotted time before their blogs are deleted, we provide them to the owner via email as mentioned here.
The last thing we want is for anyone to lose their work. Of course, it's always a good idea to back up your work on your computer.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
A few people have ruined it for everyone!
.dave. was the first person on this site to read my blog, and he was both encouraging and polite. The fact that my first bloggit encouter was so positive kept me coming back.
His blogs were sometimes humerous, sometimes insightful, sometimes mystifying; but always entertaining. If you've decided to ban him, how long before other well-read and entertaining blogs are shut down for some silly and unjustified reason?
I am seriously affronted by your decision. It's unwarranted cenorship, and it should not be tolerated. Just because you don't understand the content or humor in a blog doesn't make it agaist the rules.
Given the number of people that have expressed similar opinions, I'm shocked that .dave. hasn't been reinstated. I can only assume that you have no idea what the loss of our cherished .dave. has done. Are you unconcerned or simply unaware of the consequences your actions will surely have?
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
It has been brought to my attention that...
Zena, Brian, and KaHae have all been either banned or suspended. Is this true, and if so, why does it not indicate this on their profiles??? Curious and a little miffed by the progress of this whole fiasco...
Monday, November 5, 2007
BLOGIT HAD A CHOICE???
Please, oh please, oh PLEASE read this post!
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/blackcat/500921
WHERE ARE THE BLOGIT POLICE?
How can one fathom a conduct policy that bans a highly respected member like Dave, while tolerating the disgusting rant below this comment.
I refer to that which is so typical of Soul_ Builder's blog. It is insulting, arrogant, dismissive and grossly discouteous to his fellow bloggers. It must surely be in totally in breach of the conduct policy.
But apparently this conduct which should not be permitted in any public forum is aceptable to the Blogit staff. Or is it that we are only policed when it suits our staff, in which case, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
If anyone can deduce any sort of reason for this bizarre discrepancy, I would love to hear of it.
You have yet to respond to my inquiry
If your position is that Dave's post were "unacceptable" and/or violated one of your rules or guildines, I would still like to know why you find a post, such as the following, accepting "writing" within your site....
[BlogitStaff: this reposted blog entry has been deleted since it is someone else's -- please email potential policy violations to us so we can handle it following procedure]
Preparations for McCarthyism At It's Finest
Since anyone of us can be expelled at any time for alleged infractions reported by secret accusers after being given warnings not to do what we were alleged to do but no opportunity to refute the secret charges, it behooves us to save all of our work and be prepared for our eventual ouster.
Reading through Blogit's policy on handling banning members, I am struck by the wisdom of the Magna Carta and the legal tradition it spawned whereby charges are openly brought forth and no punishment is inflicted except by the judgment of one's peers.
So where is the King John of Blogit? The Barons and I have a matter to discuss with him...
A final note on .Dave.
.Dave.'s account is closed. It will remain closed.
In the typical scenario, we only suspend members after multiple warnings and repeated occurrences of policy infractions. This is not something we do lightly, and we do what is in the best interest of everyone -- not just one group.
For more information, please see the Common Policy Questions page, which has answers to many questions.
Please don't be disruptive on Blogit; there are other people trying to write here.
[Edit: As we have mentioned many times, we are happy to discuss improvements to general procedures, but we cannot talk about a particular case. To make sure this is clear in this entry, the phrase "in the typical scenario" has been added to the beginning of the second paragraph.]
