QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Sun 28th May 2006, 4:24am)
I did not edit my post. Yesterday I read where someone on this forum said they had searched for the BoingBoing quote and couldn't find it. I knew they were referring to my quote, but until then I wasn't aware that it wasn't turning up in a search. Sure enough, it was gone. I then found it on
MSN cache.
Good grief, let's be upfront. Someone deleted some stuff once the Sandifer thing became a big story.
It wasn't me.I don't object to this. On the contrary, I believe the forum owners/admins have the right to clean up a thread once it becomes clear that it is being unfairly exploited by enemies of the forum. But at least let's admit that this is policy, and it might happen again, and if you don't like it then go find what you want on some search engine's cache copy.
Why keep this a secret? It just feeds the controversy.
I agree. We should be open about it. This kind of thing has happened before here, which was why we developed the trash can and so forth. Presumably this was done by Selina, so hopefully this can just be admitted and let's move on from there. Its better just to say the truth. There's nothing wrong with doing it. Its just a problem with when we do it then pretend we didn't.
And that was obviously not a fake screen shot too. It looked very real to me, and when I typed in the entry that appeared in the screen shot, I got the exact same result. So why call it fake?