http://pacificapocalypse.com/pacificapocalypse/2008/07/boing-boingxeniredaction-partwhat-part-are-we-on-again/ Standing on the beach, staring at the sea. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:45:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://pacificapocalypse.com/pacificapocalypse/2008/07/boing-boingxeniredaction-partwhat-part-are-we-on-again/#comment-14 Doctor Popular Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:40:58 +0000 http://pacificapocalypse.com/pacificapocalypse/?p=51#comment-14 I don't know how I missed this before, but it sums up my thoughts pretty well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLjfJgrqIU I don’t know how I missed this before, but it sums up my thoughts pretty well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLjfJgrqIU

]]> http://pacificapocalypse.com/pacificapocalypse/2008/07/boing-boingxeniredaction-partwhat-part-are-we-on-again/#comment-13 Doctor Popular Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:07:11 +0000 http://pacificapocalypse.com/pacificapocalypse/?p=51#comment-13 I think that I would have been happier if Xeni had just not posted this "apology" because I was starting to forget about it. Sure they have a right to censor their own blog, and yes they reacted slowly and condescendingly, but the apology really doesn't address the mudslinging that BB staff took part in. <a href="http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/07/the-accretion-of-little-things.html" rel="nofollow">In this article</a>, Violet shows that she handled the whole scenario with grace and humor. She writes "In one instance, Xeni compared posts with me in them to “piles of shit on the floor” (after the day passed, her comment was non-transparently edited to remove this). Hayden called me “a strain[s] of evil” and there was more from both women." The truly ironic part of the whole debacle is that if Hayden would have followed <a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009339.html" rel="nofollow">her own editorial advice</a>, the ENTIRE thing could have been avoided. What BB doesn't understand is that it's not really the censorship that was the problem, it was the way they handled it. I think that I would have been happier if Xeni had just not posted this “apology” because I was starting to forget about it. Sure they have a right to censor their own blog, and yes they reacted slowly and condescendingly, but the apology really doesn’t address the mudslinging that BB staff took part in. In this article, Violet shows that she handled the whole scenario with grace and humor.
She writes “In one instance, Xeni compared posts with me in them to “piles of shit on the floor” (after the day passed, her comment was non-transparently edited to remove this). Hayden called me “a strain[s] of evil” and there was more from both women.”
The truly ironic part of the whole debacle is that if Hayden would have followed her own editorial advice, the ENTIRE thing could have been avoided. What BB doesn’t understand is that it’s not really the censorship that was the problem, it was the way they handled it.

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