The creators of What'd yOU Expect? would like to announce a special thank you to The Post, not only for the publicity, but for bringing to our attention a letter of concern from a fellow reader of our blog. This letter brought amazing comic relief and we would like to address Ms. Purcell directly to clear a few things up.
Ms. Purcell, please allow me to educate you about our site and how it works, since there's clearly some discrepancy. You are correct that this blog is "under-edited," but that would simply be because these posts are written BY readers. I know it may be hard for you to understand, but when our readers are goofing off on our site, they enjoy typing with the AP style handcuffs off. It's a bit more comfortable and informal. The creators do not go back and edit comments because it's the reader's story to tell however they'd like. With that said, the comments on our site DO NOT reflect the beliefs of the creators. The creators encourage the freedom of speech to all readers, regardless of sex, content of their story, etc. To edit, eliminate or discourage comments is an act of censorship, which is exactly what our site rejects. While we understand your concern, we would like to say that you, along with everyone reading this message, chose to go through a site content warning, come to this site, read the content and then participate in the gossip of the site. Therefore, thank you once again for visiting What'd yOU Expect? and we look forward to your future participation on our site.
Sincerely,
What'd yOU Expect?
P.S. To those who commented on the letter Ms. Purcell wrote, this Web site DID NOT make Ohio University a top-ranked party school on The Princeton Review. Ohio University gained that reputation years ago because of the fests, the epic Halloween block party and the 20 bars in walking distance from campus. The stigma is not going anywhere and if you were worried about that reflecting onto your future job applications, then you should have thought about that before you paid that huge wad of cash to our poorly budgeted school. The creators are providing an outlet for students to discuss their experiences WITHOUT censorship to bring to light the candid experiences of OU students. This is a site run by the readers and for the readers. If what you're seeing posted isn't how you view OU, then write your own candid stories to show the other side. We're welcoming anyone to show OU's true colors.
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cOUld you at least stop typing O and U in capital letters every time they appear next to each other? That gets kind of annoying to read, other than that this site is great.
ReplyDeletehaha point taken. will do! it was getting to be an annoying hassle anyway. Thanks for your comment :)
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i agree very annoying, glad you're quitting that pooch! lol
ReplyDeleteMy god are you folks moronic. This site is atrocious, and no one even knows what you're talking about in your "open" letter to Ms. Purcell, unless of course they had read her letter in the Post. Why would you even post that to your site? It just makes you look bad.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tutorial, Pooch, but I’m aware of your submission policy.
ReplyDeleteI realize that you don’t want to lose the “voice” in these charming little posts. The authors, though, aren’t stellar story-tellers. It isn’t difficult to spell check a document or re-write a few sentences for clarity. Censorship and formatting are completely different concepts. Claiming one trumps the other is a cop-out, and an excuse for lackadaisical “editing.”
The “Freedom of Speech” argument is getting old. The site propagates malicious and hedonistic material. I didn’t notice any comments claiming “YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH SUCH CONTENT.” Some people just don’t dig it.
And I never claimed that this site GAVE the school its rep, only REINFORCES it. Different verbs.
I do write my own stories! You can read them at acrn.com!
No one cares about your opinion. If you'd like to discuss this any further, come find me to discuss it after our class instead of hiding behind your computer. I'm not too hard to find. The site's not coming down, so you might as well give up. If you don't like the blog, then get the fuck off. End of discussion.
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It's great how you're standing up for free speech, authors of this blog, by running it for like a month and then apparently abandoning it once the novelty wears off and you are no longer the center of attention.
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