Name/Alias: Jeff
Journal name: ioldanach
Location(optional): Blooming Grove, NY
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I am appalled to hear about your mass-deletion of communities and journals with what you deemed as 'triggering' interests. So far, out of all the dozens of groups deleted, I've heard of only one group that was actually aimed at aiding and discussing illegal and abusive acts.
There are many reasons to list an 'interest'. Survivors of various acts list them as interests because they've shaped their lives and the interest link aids in networking with other survivors. To delete someone's account without warning because their profile contains a particular keyword is insulting, to delete a group of survivors is cruel. Years of networking destroyed in an instant because someone thought the presence of a particular keyword meant something different. Years of progress learning to communicate about one's past halted because someone decided that here we can't talk about that.
Other interests revolve around fiction. Stories involving what would be illegal in the real world are entirely legal as fiction. An interest might relate to roleplay, where consenting adults play the part of a minor, or perhaps a rapist, within the context of a sexual, entirely adult relationship.
In other cases, accounts and groups were deleted because a word in the interests list has more than one meaning, and they were using an entirely different meaning. I know of at least one book club deleted because the book they discussed has the title of an 'objectionable' interest.
In fact, people opening up in these groups has even led to such crimes and abuse as those mentioned in the objectionable interests being prevented, as the groups that use the topics as fodder for discussion or fiction are in an excellent position to see the signs of someone actually intending to commit the crime. By deleting these groups an abuse that might have been prevented by astute readers is allowed to proceed unhindered.
Put back the groups, put back the users. If you want to police them then that's up to you, but only delete groups that actually stand for that which is truly objectionable.
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Journal name: ioldanach
Location(optional): Blooming Grove, NY
Comment(optional):
I am appalled to hear about your mass-deletion of communities and journals with what you deemed as 'triggering' interests. So far, out of all the dozens of groups deleted, I've heard of only one group that was actually aimed at aiding and discussing illegal and abusive acts.
There are many reasons to list an 'interest'. Survivors of various acts list them as interests because they've shaped their lives and the interest link aids in networking with other survivors. To delete someone's account without warning because their profile contains a particular keyword is insulting, to delete a group of survivors is cruel. Years of networking destroyed in an instant because someone thought the presence of a particular keyword meant something different. Years of progress learning to communicate about one's past halted because someone decided that here we can't talk about that.
Other interests revolve around fiction. Stories involving what would be illegal in the real world are entirely legal as fiction. An interest might relate to roleplay, where consenting adults play the part of a minor, or perhaps a rapist, within the context of a sexual, entirely adult relationship.
In other cases, accounts and groups were deleted because a word in the interests list has more than one meaning, and they were using an entirely different meaning. I know of at least one book club deleted because the book they discussed has the title of an 'objectionable' interest.
In fact, people opening up in these groups has even led to such crimes and abuse as those mentioned in the objectionable interests being prevented, as the groups that use the topics as fodder for discussion or fiction are in an excellent position to see the signs of someone actually intending to commit the crime. By deleting these groups an abuse that might have been prevented by astute readers is allowed to proceed unhindered.
Put back the groups, put back the users. If you want to police them then that's up to you, but only delete groups that actually stand for that which is truly objectionable.