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I'm really pleased with how my decision to moderate my journal has gone. The day or so after I did it I was still getting drawn into some threads I really didn't want to deal with, but after I started sticking to my guns they just dried up. People stopped bothering. Since then, there have been a couple comments I didn't let through because I didn't necessarily want the reactions I thought they might provoke and one that I deleted without reading because it was obviously an angry rant about the moderation policy.
Just one. Much better than I expected... I have a tendency to expect the worst reaction to everything I do, whichsometimes paralyzes me.
I only had to glance at the deleted comment to know that it was something that I didn't need to read, but of course, in doing so, I read a bit of it. Just so everybody's clear, the whole I Control The Conversation In My Journal thing? It's not because I'm Alexandra Erin, Super Genius. It's not because I'm Alexandra Erin, The Greatest Author Who Ever Lived. It's not because I think the world is waiting breathlessly for my thoughts on yaoi.
It's because this is my journal. The emphasis on the possessive personal pronoun there is intended to emphasize the possession, not the person. I'm not asserting any unique or special property to this journal based on who owns it, because there is nothing special about it. There is nothing special about the space beneath my posts, no reason anybody needs to stake them out or feel that something has been taken away from them if they don't have absolute unrestricted access to write in them.
You've got a Livejournal yourself. If not, you could have one. And you could do whatever you wanted with it, within the scope of Livejournal's fairly broad acceptable use policies. You could post your own thoughts. You could solicit the thoughts of others. You could do both. It's yours. This is mine. Mine might be a bit more widely read than it would be if I wasn't Internet Famous for other things, which is among the reasons that I feel obliged to soapbox with it instead of just talking about nerdery all the time... but it's still my journal. The fact that I stand on my soapbox does not oblige me to give anybody else a soapbox, especially if their viewpoint is based on a fundamental disagreement in premises (i.e., racism only exists when one person actively and overtly hates another person based entirely on race and no other factors) or a viewpoint I find abhorrent and damaging (i.e., rape apologia).
Not that I could stop people from expressing those viewpoints... free speech is not a commodity I have exclusive custody of, and I'm also not the one guarding the cupboard where the spare Livejournals are kept.
Conversations We Won't Be Having Here: But racism really can't exist without intent, how naive it is to think that I can write something in public view and have it be immune to commentary/criticism... seriously, folks, I am not hoarding the Livejournals and there is plenty of space on the internet.
Just one. Much better than I expected... I have a tendency to expect the worst reaction to everything I do, which
I only had to glance at the deleted comment to know that it was something that I didn't need to read, but of course, in doing so, I read a bit of it. Just so everybody's clear, the whole I Control The Conversation In My Journal thing? It's not because I'm Alexandra Erin, Super Genius. It's not because I'm Alexandra Erin, The Greatest Author Who Ever Lived. It's not because I think the world is waiting breathlessly for my thoughts on yaoi.
It's because this is my journal. The emphasis on the possessive personal pronoun there is intended to emphasize the possession, not the person. I'm not asserting any unique or special property to this journal based on who owns it, because there is nothing special about it. There is nothing special about the space beneath my posts, no reason anybody needs to stake them out or feel that something has been taken away from them if they don't have absolute unrestricted access to write in them.
You've got a Livejournal yourself. If not, you could have one. And you could do whatever you wanted with it, within the scope of Livejournal's fairly broad acceptable use policies. You could post your own thoughts. You could solicit the thoughts of others. You could do both. It's yours. This is mine. Mine might be a bit more widely read than it would be if I wasn't Internet Famous for other things, which is among the reasons that I feel obliged to soapbox with it instead of just talking about nerdery all the time... but it's still my journal. The fact that I stand on my soapbox does not oblige me to give anybody else a soapbox, especially if their viewpoint is based on a fundamental disagreement in premises (i.e., racism only exists when one person actively and overtly hates another person based entirely on race and no other factors) or a viewpoint I find abhorrent and damaging (i.e., rape apologia).
Not that I could stop people from expressing those viewpoints... free speech is not a commodity I have exclusive custody of, and I'm also not the one guarding the cupboard where the spare Livejournals are kept.
Conversations We Won't Be Having Here: But racism really can't exist without intent, how naive it is to think that I can write something in public view and have it be immune to commentary/criticism... seriously, folks, I am not hoarding the Livejournals and there is plenty of space on the internet.
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