do i detect hubris, or is this just plain pride?

Yeah I pretty much ignored the blog your talking of. It was apparent that it was suppose to be a comment response not a new blog. Do not be afraid to post long comments...its okay. It looks like cheating for more points when you make a post on a blog when it should be a comment.

Do not be dis heartened.

One question, Why do you never capitalize?
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all truths are easy to understand once discovered; the point is to discover them ~galileo

what i am doing here, is invoking my american right of boycott, i am boycotting the fact that one of my blogs was removed from my blog entries. i circumvented that by posting it as a comment, which i guess it was, but i feel a certain lack of respect, both on my part and on theirs, but i view respect as something that is earned, not given.

Let me get this straight.... you posted a blog to tell the world that you're boycotting this place because they removed a blog of yours.

Now, I don't mean this to cut too deeply, but that's kind of dumb. If you're boycotting, you tell the admins, then you just stop posting. Putting up a blog to post your boycott of a blog serves no purpose but to garner attention.

It is akin, in my mind, to people who write blogs about how everything we say is regulated and we have no freedoms left, or people who protest the President saying that he's taking away our first amendment rights.....

Posting a comment as a blog, given that Progressiveu is currently holding the BFP scholarship contest, is simply unfair. If everyone posted their replies to other users as new blogs instead of as comments... how fair would that be when read counts and comments count and how much discussion would that generate? When you move that comment to a new blog, you effectively remove half of those that were (or would be) in the discussion simply because they never find that new blog. It's also cheating in the sense that you're now getting one point for every single person that reads the blog that should have been a comment.

It's censorship to say that you can't say this or that... it isn't censorship to say that you can say whatever you want to say so long as you do so in the correct spot. You agreed to all Terms of Service and other policies when you opted to create an account here. Griping that you are being censored when the item in question can (or has) been posted where it should have been posted in the first place is a tad ridiculous.

On another note, you can appeal decisions made by moderators, as you should already be aware. Post your complaint to the forums where it belongs, email it to the entire moderation team at info@progressiveu.org or take it up with the moderator who took the action in the first place. Writing a blog to complain about a decision is as unfair to the spirit of competition as is sliding in free read points by making your comment a blog.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't- A. France
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One of those people I'd probably adore. You've got a lot going on in your head, and I'd love to hear all of it. I agree about the censorship. It reminds me of a debate I had in my history class where I was the only one that believed in absolute freedom of speech, no matter what a person is saying, or who they are saying it to, or what it is about. This is progressive, rather its supposed to be. So, we should be saying what can only provide progress. And if you are anything like me, change drives progress, so we need people who don't have the same conventions as everyone else, vulgar and explicit or not. But who are we to comment words anyhow? Words can be manipulated, which is why all writers of any kind, are naturally manipulative. Leading to the point that, writing/speaking is an important part of changing or progressing, no matter what they may be.

the object here is not to pick a battle so big you can't complete it, the object is to pick a battle really small, that it almost seemed like nothing to overcome it, but in turn this battle actually turns out to be bigger, and deeper, than the first battl

There is a reason why flagged blogs are brought up for review to the entire Faculty; that is because many of us disagree on certain interpretations.

Personally, I don't see posting a rather long comment, as a reply to someone else's blog, as a major deal. However, the blog you are referring to made little sense and was done in poor fashion.

A) - the author's name should not have been in the title
B) - there should have been links to the original blog, to help the readers have an idea of what was going on
C) it should have in some way offered new information on the given subject that would be better read as a new blog rather than as a comment

So, for example, if I posted a blog about how clothing builds character, and cite whatever references and give my viewpoint, and you are able to take it a step further, citing new examples and a fresh perspective - that could go as a blog (provided you also link back to the original), but if you're just responding with an "I agree" or an "I disagree" - then it's best left as a comment.

Additionally, there is a reason we unpublish blog entries first before simply deleting them - that's to give you the chance to reword/rewrite them to make them suitable for publishing. Of course, you can opt not to do this, at which time the blog entry does get deleted and any points earned for it are forfeit. And, as Fallon stated, if you question any decision regarding a blog entry that has been unpublished, you can email the admin directly or PM any of the active faculty volunteers for clarification.

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Fanaile Essence

I kind of agree with Different Voice. You should be able to write whatever you want just as long as it makes since. But people like to inforce their own rules on things. I remember when I wrote : My Hands Around your Neck Will Make you Run Out of Breath, but you Still have to love me. A lot of people liked how I depicted abuse against the woman except one person. They felt that I should have used something else to make my blog better. On their point I could not agree with because I felt the way I did it help people understand the view point of abuse from the abuser and abusee. Plus the story is true but I did play it up to catch some people's interest. Whole point was to progress out of a abusive relationship. Well someone suggested that I put it on the creative writing side. I did. But someone flagged it. I don't understand why, but they did. Now on progressive, no one flagged it though.Keep your head up.

Dang? Can you say comment overload! :-!! Everyone sure has commented a lot on this one. Some serious, others hilarious. Well they could have at least told you they were going to tkae the blog off if you can't re-write it or have some other better solution. I get why you would want to boycott. Hey , heres something that will cheer you up a bit.

Doh!

Well hope it did!