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Some things on my mind: 1) Someone asked, "If Valerie said she is leaving, why is she still posting here?" The answer to that is that I said I was leaving before this kangaroo court trial of my own integrity started. I DON'T want to be here now, and I do intend to go far, far, away after this is over. 2) Jp2 may well be in this for revenge on me, because I locked his account in December after he sent out 909 e-mail messages. Cyklone and others who participated in the baby diary parody (iggy, cross, seldon, and others) may be arguing so vehemently because I deleted the baby diary as a reaction to the parody of it. If they can convince people that deleting the baby diary was wrong, it de-legitimatizes my reaction to the parody. That is, they may be looking for someone to tell them that parodying the baby diary was okay, and getting people to vote against the deletion is a way of defending their participation in the parody. 3) I still firmly believe that I acted ethically, to the highest moral standards, when I deleted the baby diary. The fair witnesses of the two conferences were not easily available to be found (even now I've only managed to locate 4 of the 5, and for some of them it took weeks). I believe that most, quite possibly all, of the fair witnesses of those conferences would have deleted the baby diaries when I asked. Time was critical for getting the baby diaries deleted before parodiers made copies, and the 4-5 weeks it has taken to locate some (but not all) of the fair witnesses would have been way too long. It *is* the role of staff to help out users who have time-critical problems like this one, where the fair witnesses are not readily available to fill their roles. Another example of staff filling a fair witness's role when the fair witness was not available: Nobody asked Katie, the fair witness of Agora, who logs in only rarely, to delete the gaggle of copies of Plato's Republic that polytarp posted there recently. A staffer went in and just did it. And deleting those items wasn't even time-critical, yet it is okay that a staffer deleted someone else's postings. 4) Iggy argues that since people warned me not to post personal information and I did it anyway, people should vote to undelete the baby diaries to make me live with the consequences of my actions and teach me a lesson. I find this argument weird, since so far the only bad consequence of posting personal information in the baby diaries is that Iggy and other people parodied it. If you warned me not to post it, and I did it anyway, isn't the best solution to delete it, rather than "teaching me a lesson" by putting the items back on-line? 5) Even if you do think I should be "taught a lesson," please think of my children. This is THEIR personal information that we are talking about putting back online. Even if I "ought to be punished" for my stupidity in posting this stuff on-line, my children are innocent. For their sake, if for no other reason, I urge you to vote to leave the baby diaries deleted.
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