@ Antinous #891:
I said that I used the word "violence" in a qualified sense. If those readers had actually read what I actually wrote, they probably would not have seen fit to misrepresent it later, like you continue to do.

Aren't you going to answer my other remarks?

@ Antinous #878:
First of all, the BB comment policy does not in its present form (I admit it's been a few hours since I last looked) require commenters to write about other topics before they can comment on a controversial one.

Secondly, I qualified my use of the word "violence". Some people chose not to try and understand that, but that's not my fault.

Thirdly, I certainly did not "beg" to "be allowed" to do anything. I merely said I'd like to somehow 'unread' five years of BB.

Fourthly, some people apparently did take what I wrote seriously. Xeni, for one (her comment #877).

Will you post this comment? That would be really nice. Because the bottom line is: you had no good reason to censor some of my earlier comments to begin with.

Xeni Jardin said (#865):

So: yeah, the fact that the post didn't point to the changed policy was a screwup. Honestly. There was no coordinated decision to hide or downplay that change, I swear.

I would like to believe you. But if that's so, then why was my comment that pointed out, before Cavalier did, that the BB 'unpublishing' policy is less then a week old, deleted three times?

Why should any well-formed, relevant, and politely phrased comment ever be deleted?

I wrote a politely worded, relevant-to-the-thread comment, that answered a question asked by another commenter, and it was not shown. I entered the same comment a second time, and it still is not shown.

Why is that?

@ Eustace, 768: what would, in your view, constitute a violent act, on-line, if not, for instance, the stealthy removal of every mention of someone's name from a widely read web publication? Do you consider the retouching of photographs by dictatorships as violent acts, or as mere unpleasantries?

Or is it perhaps impossible for you to conceive of any other kind of violence than the fists, bullets and bombs kind?

Remember primary school? The cabal of ten year olds deciding that Jimmy was now persona non grata, and that no-one could say his name out loud anymore? Is that not violence?

Trying to figure out a way to 'unread' five years or so of Boing Boing.

'Unpublishing' someone is disappearing him or her, exactly to the extent that lies within your power as an online publisher.

It's an unkind, even violent thing to do.