Comments on: The Problem With Blind Items http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Elektra http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/comment-page-1/#comment-86123 Elektra Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:41:35 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/#comment-86123 I’m missing the part where anyone condemned Valerie for anything, but I’m getting the part where Valerie comes across as defensive, and not in a good way.

People wrote a post where blind items can help…and they can hurt. Isn’t that true in Jim Mclaoughlin’s case?

“Colleen writes something like this about ME…” I didn’t really see how the post was about YOU, but how the post was about the effect of blind items. Not about YOU.

Good job, Johanna, Great post with lots of important things to think about.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/comment-page-1/#comment-85533 Johanna Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:12:48 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/#comment-85533 So, Valerie, why not name names in your post?

Tina: I suspect you’re right, but I’m working on being more optimistic.

]]> By: Tina http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/comment-page-1/#comment-85490 Tina Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:18:29 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/#comment-85490 Maybe the best avenue is to focus on the positive and avoid the personalities.

That’s impossible to do in small publishing.

]]> By: Val http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/comment-page-1/#comment-85485 Val Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:55:41 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/12/the-problem-with-blind-items/#comment-85485 You know, when I read this I think about all the time I’ve spent protecting the identities of people who completely don’t deserve the protection. They are protected by one person after another, leaving them to make the same mistakes over and over, taking down person after person in their wake like a runaway train. Nobody does a post publicly condemning their actions, but Colleen does a post condemning my actions in trying to find some outlet to express these awful things that happen. Not angry at you, Johanna, I’m just struck by the irony that Colleen writes something like this about me when she was attacked on the Internet several years ago for something similar; and that it was reading about those attacks and also her own words that convinced me to stand up for myself in my own situation. Her own “blind items” actually helped me.

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