Let's get real here my friend. You told us you wanted a place to figure out how to Frog March the liars in the White House out and I believe to also help stop the war and make sure the votes were legally counted. Things like homes for the homeless and jobs for the jobless and healthcare for 40 million people without flippin insurance. To get progressives elected. What happened to all of that. The only time the traffic goes way up is if there is a flamewar between two posters or usually it involves a Dkos diary. Look what you one paragraph diary on Mariscat did last night!

Nope, not what I originally came over here from Dkos for. Not by a long shot.

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.

These are people who have contributed in a very real and tangible way to your success, and to furthering the causes that we all profess to hold dear (as alohaleezy so eloquently put it in her reply to this comment). Spiderleaf has shared many of her most personal thoughts and experiences in the time she's been here.

I expect you or someone else will bring out the strawman of 'outing' people, or exposing their personal information. Let me explain why that's a strawman argument: when anyone posts something on the internet, it's there for all to see, and anyone can do just about anything with that information. Nobody can save Armando from the fact that he advertises his new identity over on another blog in his profile. Nobody but Maneegee can take down the photos that he uploaded, showing you and CG in a very affectionate pose. And he did. But, we who have seen it have seen it, and that can't be changed. Want me to stop mentioning it any further? Sure, just ask nicely. Want me to change google's search results? No can do. It didn't take a private detective to figure this stuff out. Only an average IQ and an internet connection. There were no breaches of confidentiality.

Now, I've asked you on spidey's behalf if you would delete the content she's contributed to your site. And you replied with a contrite "no". That's your choice, and no one else's.  We know at the time we hit 'submit' that we're turning this power over to you. Did we misjudge the compassion you would show if we later decided that those personal thoughts shouldn't be up on the site? Remember, I'm not talking about what's in google's cache, or what anyone else is free to think or say: I'm talking about the power that you have to show respect and compassion, or ignore the request, for whatever reason.

So, it's your site and your choice to do as you see fit, for whatever reasons you decide are important. I'm not challenging your decision to ban spiderleaf, but I think you owe the community a little explanation of how this fits in with what you're saying should be so obvious, because it isn't so obvious to some. I am asking you to reconsider her request to delete what she's posted. There are one or two items in particular which, even if you want to keep the rest, would be worth considering deleting. If you are willing to discuss this offline, you have both of our email addresses from our private profiles, and our word that what's discussed in the confidence of email will remain confidential.

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