Green Room - Week 22 - Day 3 & 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Hello.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Dude, I get that we're all adults here, and that you try to keep your hands off this process as much as possible and that the drama helps to make this just like a real reality show! And, of course, I get why you screened that comment.

However, since the comment is screened, people who missed it don't know how serious this mess has become. And I think you need to say something, and I think it needs to be said up front and center, not buried at the end of a green room where people probably won't notice it.

I'm just a bit ticked off with the usual bullshit, and ultimately, that's not very important. But this _is_ a writing contest and it _is_ about community. What it's not is about people gleefully eating each other alive and people actually experiencing harm.

Words have real consequences. The content of our entries bear that out as surely as the ramifications of our social interactions.

And while I don't necessarily think it will do a damn bit of good, you need to say something.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I screened it because after talking to the only person who actually knows the situation, because she is living it, I was asked to do so.

Which means I also know how much the "cause" cited is an accurate depiction of how the person feels, and how much is just from someone who cares about her making leaps into areas where she might disagree.

Apparently this is something that is going to be discussed between the two of them, and I respect that. That is where it probably should have stayed given all the circumstances in play. Which is why I screened the comment but kept up yours.

I thought the reminder that every single user name here is attached to a real life person is something that everyone should keep in mind. Not just here but wherever they might go.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm not disagreeing with you screening the comment.

I am, however, saying that once we reach the point that someone could even think that interpersonal viciousness in LJ idol could lead someone to engage in self-harm it would be reasonable for you to make a general statement about whatever standards for sportsmanship you have for this thing.

Just my opinion and I'm not running the show. But I worked in public relations for ten years, and am quite certainly not talking out of my ass, either.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Noted.

A general "Just f-ing behave yourselves" is always in order.

Because you are dealing with other people, and when you lose sight of that, you lose in general.

[brightflashes.livejournal.com]

::nods:: I definitely agree.

[brightflashes.livejournal.com]

Yes - being discussed now. Thank you very much for taking the time to call and talk to me about this and screen the comment that I asked you to.