Comments on: digital notes and errata

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:17:26 +0000

What did violet DO (whether right or wrong) to piss off those people? I also used to be a regular boingboing reader but in the last year I’ve found the tone increasingly self-satisfied and the posts increasingly boring. The series of scans from Popular Mechanics? Yikes. And Xeni’s travel pictures? Mediocre photography at best. Sorry, I feel bad saying it, but it’s true.

By: Thor

Thor — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:05:38 +0000

Don’t worry too much about Cory. I hear they’re working on a piece about a steampunk Disney Makezine award for reading “Little Brother,” shortly after which the entire blog will implode under its own weight into a massive, self-referential singularity.

By: Ms. Single Mama

Ms. Single Mama — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:42:01 +0000

I’ve had a bit of blogging drama myself lately … good luck with that! And I love your vlogs! Just discovered your blog, very glad I did.

By: ah the ego

ah the ego — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:32:18 +0000

But you can bet that Cory’s endless “Read my excellent new prose” posts and “I’m so clever I won another reward” adverts, errr, posts, will remain.

By: mikl-em

mikl-em — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:55:49 +0000

aw shux, thanks! appreciate the plug. is fun throwing kindling on Scott’s fire, and I have a few more cool (I think) ideas in the worx. I’m also posting a bit more at http://miklem.com/ which has been largely dormant for ages.

distressed about the 2xboing stuff. that’s bad juice man. I am hoping that the pattern we think we see is just misleading, that it’s some other pattern of which yr posts are a subset. But frankly, I’m not seeing it. I see posts that are older. I see posts that seem likely to be more explicit or potentially offensive (Cup-’o-Pussys! Vintage Christian Sex! Shitting Pope! Chimp Sex! Squid Sex!). I haven’t seen any other posts with the same page not found behavior of your posts.

UNTIL! I just did. I don’t know what it means, but there are three boingboingboing podcast links that are similarly broken…
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/boingboingboing-15-w.html

Only one of those mentions you as a guest in the description. So the question is: what do you, Q Burns Abstract Message, and “game developer Jane McGonigal” have in common? unless of course you were also in those episodes (#12-13)??

btw, as you probably noticed, your name does appear in comments on numerous pages, like…
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/15/girl-cant-help-it-a.html

Whatever this is it’s annoying and unsettling. The term “you bastards!!!” comes to mind. Hope there is a reasonable explanation, but right now it’s bugging me too, sister!

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:57 +0000

@violet – Sometimes when I’ve had comments on people’s blogs disappear, and I’m pretty sure it’s an error rather than deliberate, I email the person saying something like “You seem to have a bug in your blog anti-spam software, my comment got deleted, I’m sure that was just an error rather than intentional, so you might want to check your settings”. Again, though, that’s not me being cute, it’s when I think that’s what really happened.

Generally, when a mass-delete like that happens for deliberate reasons, the delete-ee has an inkling of why it happened. Perhaps “I didn’t think they’d take it so far”, but still not a total unknown.

It’s POSSIBLE, just conjecture, that this is an anti-spam cleanup run amuck. But in that case I’d think the Boingers would just say so, and so lack of response from them is odd. It’s all very puzzling.

Anyway, I read about it on valleyway.com (not the most reliable of sources), someone submitted it to digg.com and it’s climbing,

By: violet

violet — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:31:21 +0000

@ Seth — I agree. when I made this post I’d been emailed about it over the weekend and wasn’t sure what to do. asking why they’d taken the posts down seemed accusatory, so I figured I’d make a statement calling attention to it — at the very least — rather than being silent while still trying to figure out how to address something so bizarre. I figured that was the most open and accountable way for me to address the questions and rumors, while still not knowing what the hell is going on (and being not sure what the right thing to do is in a situation like this). I mean, I’ve never seen a well-known blog take down so many posts in a mass deletion without a peep — let alone that it seems to be about me. plus, I thought I was friends with Boing Boing, so it feels incredibly awkward.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:09:51 +0000

Wow … You have indeed been put down the memory-hole.

But regarding “How do you even ask someone about something like that?” – Oh, maybe “There’s some silly stuff in the press about a feud, people are writing to me about it, and let’s quash the rumors, so what’s up?” – would that work? Note I’m bad at politics.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:51:01 +0000

Agree with @bryanf

By: bryanf

bryanf — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:12:55 +0000

I stopped trying to keep up with boingboing several months ago, the signal to noise ratio exceeded my tolerances. Weird indeed though that they’d remove old posts without a word.

By: Yann

Yann — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:14:33 +0000

Ack, nevermind

By: Yann

Yann — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:09:20 +0000

I don’t think boingboing deleted any articles. They did upgrade their whole blog a few months ago, so some links may have changed.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=site:boingboing.net+violet+blue&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8