Am I Famous Now…

I’m the first one to admit I make errors and sometimes fire to quickly. Lately it has happened more than once, that I blogged and fired, only to censor myself few hours later. But most of times damage had already been done, your target already read your salvo. Only thing you can do is own up to it.

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There was some controversy over at Wisdump last weekend. Editorial, censorship and owner intervention, apology. The result is a highly damaged blog and image.
Where the owner and I thought it was a good move to disclose, admit the error and own up to it in a public apology, soon we were called down to earth.
Disclosure is important in the world of problogging, most of time highly appreciated even. But more had happened: the owner’s apology was edited by former editor.

After some days of ‘train wreck watching’, I took over the editorship of Wisdump and decided to edit the public apology back to it’s original state (read: without the edit of the former editor) and closed and deleted all comments for that entry.

I am aware that people might take this as a new case of censorship, but I will stand up and defend this decision, my decision. I think SplashPress took the right decision and there was no need for a collection of unsubscribe comments. I wonder how people would have reacted if the apology were Scriv’s.

Now, I’m looking forward to the challenge Wisdump and am sure we’ll soon be able to introduce some new authors and create a kicking team.
And with this, I close the ‘ping-o-matic train wreck’ mentally.