Recently I registered to blog on Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's official websites. After signing up, I posted four blogs (Billary Express rolls on - thanks ABC!, Huckabee uses C-word and refuses to apologize, 41 is still the man!, and Roughed up but still ready) on both Hillary's and Obama's websites. I received comments back immediately on Hillary's website and was just about to reply, when all of my posts were deleted.
After re-posting all four articles, I was stunned to find out that they were all deleted again shortly after I had just re-posted them. Now, I was beginning to get somewhat frustrated, so decided to re-read the "Terms of Service" (TOS). After the second pass through the TOS's, I still believed that I had not done anything wrong, as far as I could tell. But, maybe, just possibly, the embedded links in the articles were triggering immediate deletion, or a reference to this blog's URL (http://billaryclinton.blogspot.com) - I had no idea what it was - and to this day still don't know why these posts were being deleted.
I sent an email to the Website Administrator requesting their knowledge regarding the issue and an explanation as to what may be the reason causing the deletions. The next morning I looked for their response but did not receive an email response back. So, I took the initiative and removed all the links from each article, and then again re-loaded the all four blog articles, but this time without any external links or URL references.
And wouldn't you know it, once again the Administrator took exception, but this time only 3 of the 4 articles were deleted - the sole article that was not deleted was "Huckabee uses C-word and refuses to apologize". Totally confused by the series of events, I sent another email requesting an explanation as to why the articles were being deleted.
I got up this morning and checked to see if I had received an email response from the Website Administrator, I still have not received an email back from Hillary's Website Administration team. So, I decided that I would post another blog to the community to see if anyone else had experienced what I was going through, or something similar to it. The response I received was enlightening and at the same time troubling - I thought you all would enjoy seeing it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. Please note that I did take the liberty to edit the final comment response to sanitize it from the original obscenities, as you will see clearly below. CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO ENLARGE THE PRINT IF NECESSARY:
By the way, I did not have any of the posts deleted or censored on Barack Obama's website.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
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Wow...interesting experiment there! I have seen others on the Obama blog say that many comments made get immediately deleted even if not they were civil and not demeaning. We once had a troll who just ranted about getting posts deleted on our blog, but it was clear they were just saying that, because many of their sometimes offensive posts were left along in the name of free speech, I guess. Usually, if a post was deleted by the admin, record still appeared and noted that it had been deleted due to offensive language or whatnot. Although, that may not be the case anymore since the race heat was stepped up. There have been a few times when someone's posted really hateful racist stuff and eventually it gets deleted...I think those people get their accounts blocked. However, for those who are just arguing for another candidate, I usually see those posts left alone.
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