Comments on: More Nerdy Stuff About BoingBoing

By: Today’s John & Rielle Fix at Deceiver.com

Today’s John & Rielle Fix at Deceiver.com — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:43:34 +0000

[...] went through the archives of the group blog where she posts and deleted — or as she insists, “unpublished” — every single post that so much as mentioned a particular person she didn’t like [...]

By: RPFTI

RPFTI — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:58:48 +0000

Those books were not burned, they were “unprinted”.

I think we can get a lot of mileage out of this new language of obfuscation.

By: OmeWise

OmeWise — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:21:10 +0000

SailorAlphaCentauri –

Jardin took *her own material* off-line, not Violet’s. Her material included links to Violet’s material. Please process that information, and re-think.

It looks to me like this was the Internet equivalent of packing the old girl-friend out and sending her shoes after her. Immature? Yep. Censorship? Nup.

I do remember a next-door neighbor, in his front yard in the middle of the night, yelling “Honey? Please just throw out my shoes!”

By: SailorAlphaCentauri

SailorAlphaCentauri — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:02:33 +0000

@Hi Heels — Taking someone else’s material off-line is not doing them a favor; it’s censorship. If Violet put that stuff out there, it’s her business on whether or not she wants people to read it. It is not the right of anyone else to make that decision. It is not compassion to censor someone for private reasons, especially since it doesn’t seem like everything taken off-line had anything to do with the kind of materials that you feel shouldn’t have seen the light of day.

Hell, I’ve put things out on the web that you would probably feel should be taken down because I allow personal things from my childhood to be displayed, but you know what? You don’t get to make that decision. And when you become a licensed psychologist who knows how healthy or unhealthy it is to talk about sex a lot, give me a call. Until then….

By: Simon Scowl

Simon Scowl — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:29:03 +0000

Jardin did Violet a favor, some of that writing should not have seen the light of day.

Now there’s a new one…

By: Hi Heels Lo Life

Hi Heels Lo Life — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:34:09 +0000

Violet has been very frank about the fact that she has issues stemming from a very rough youth. The newpaper and online editors who exploit her, pushing her on to write more and more salacious stuff, didn’t help. Believe it or not it’s not all that healthy to be obsessed with sex and pushing the envelope all the time. Jardin did Violet a favor, some of that writing should not have seen the light of day. Maybe one day some of you will develop a little compassion to mix in with your knee jerk righteous first amendment reactionism. Things are more complicated than than they may seem at first glance.

By: Aleric

Aleric — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:40:11 +0000

Never heard of them, don’t care what the fight was about but Jardin should have just stated that it’s her site, she was mad at Violet and removed all her content. End of story. But no she had to try and make it seem like she did it for other reasons, her choice now she has to live with it.

By: Pastafarian

Pastafarian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:01:30 +0000

Thanks I’ll be here all week. Try the veal!

By: Nanners

Nanners — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:07:37 +0000

Whether it’s celeb hypocrisy or self-righteous blogger hypocrisy it’s all good to me. Never read BoingBoing, never will.

Keep it up!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:39:49 +0000

Thanks Pasta for starting my day with a laugh …. and now to clean the coffee off the computer screen (not the first time you’ve made me laugh like that). Nerdy Jessica Simpson boob stories- heh heh