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	<description>The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing.</description>
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		<title>By: belledame2222</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-62739</link>
		<dc:creator>belledame2222</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>haven't commented in a while, but i'm still around.

and yeah, in general, there does seem to be a certain law of diminishing returns wrt size of blog/# of commenters.  dunno exactly where that hits--I suspect it varies--but I do know that there's a reason I tend to avoid most of the Big Important Blogs.  especially the very top echelon, where you get thousands of comments like FRIST!ELEVEN and totally tangential discussions and "open threads."  might as well just go...well, anywhere, really.</description>
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<p>haven&#8217;t commented in a while, but i&#8217;m still around.</p>
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<p>and yeah, in general, there does seem to be a certain law of diminishing returns wrt size of blog/# of commenters.  dunno exactly where that hits&#8211;I suspect it varies&#8211;but I do know that there&#8217;s a reason I tend to avoid most of the Big Important Blogs.  especially the very top echelon, where you get thousands of comments like FRIST!ELEVEN and totally tangential discussions and &#8220;open threads.&#8221;  might as well just go&#8230;well, anywhere, really.
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		<title>By: j95</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-62647</link>
		<dc:creator>j95</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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The people who used to comment here before are silent yet my hits have quadrupled. I preferred the smaller, quieter but more active community I had here before. I miss it. I miss you.
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Me too. I mean, I liked it much better when I was the only reader of my blog. But I guess blogs are not very different from people: once they grow up, they become less cute. :)</description>
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The people who used to comment here before are silent yet my hits have quadrupled. I preferred the smaller, quieter but more active community I had here before. I miss it. I miss you.
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<p>Me too. I mean, I liked it much better when I was the only reader of my blog. But I guess blogs are not very different from people: once they grow up, they become less cute. <img src='http://deviousdiva.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: bollybutton</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-58770</link>
		<dc:creator>bollybutton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those people are like a turd that won't flush. They just hang around stinking up the place. Tsk tsk!</description>
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<p>Those people are like a turd that won&#8217;t flush. They just hang around stinking up the place. Tsk tsk!
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		<title>By: Kat</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-58293</link>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I've accepted that people only contribute when they feel they have something to say, and silence can be golden. Everyone has their own reasons for not commenting and/or spurting negative junk at you, which often has everything to do with themselves. I have a fair amount of things in the background as my site grows also, but it's not about validating my existence and I'd quit if it really bothered me that much. That's life. 

I haven't seen you comment on my site since July, but I don't take that personally even if I've seen you comment regularly in places we both frequent, and I still find time between two jobs and my own site to comment occasionally here. That's life.

Cheers!</description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve accepted that people only contribute when they feel they have something to say, and silence can be golden. Everyone has their own reasons for not commenting and/or spurting negative junk at you, which often has everything to do with themselves. I have a fair amount of things in the background as my site grows also, but it&#8217;s not about validating my existence and I&#8217;d quit if it really bothered me that much. That&#8217;s life. </p>
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<p>I haven&#8217;t seen you comment on my site since July, but I don&#8217;t take that personally even if I&#8217;ve seen you comment regularly in places we both frequent, and I still find time between two jobs and my own site to comment occasionally here. That&#8217;s life.</p>
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<p>Cheers!
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		<title>By: Georgia</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57867</link>
		<dc:creator>Georgia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Keep up the good work DD. We need people like you.</description>
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<p>Keep up the good work DD. We need people like you.
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		<title>By: blue cave</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57853</link>
		<dc:creator>blue cave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>just recently discovered your site and loved it...been here ever since almost in a daily basis but i have commented only once...
As long as i m totally against any kind of censorship i understand your views on verbal abuse, being myself a victim many times, and their consequences. And so i say go for it. Protecting your place and your friends is self-explanatory.

But plz plz plz keep on the great job</description>
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<p>just recently discovered your site and loved it&#8230;been here ever since almost in a daily basis but i have commented only once&#8230;<br />
As long as i m totally against any kind of censorship i understand your views on verbal abuse, being myself a victim many times, and their consequences. And so i say go for it. Protecting your place and your friends is self-explanatory.</p>
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<p>But plz plz plz keep on the great job
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		<title>By: Blackamazon</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57825</link>
		<dc:creator>Blackamazon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*with much love*

I will try becauseyou deserve and are amazing.
( and also because anyone who gives my the phrase " bles smy sweet curly head which I have coopted as  " bless my sweet nappy head") is awesome</description>
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<p>*with much love*</p>
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<p>I will try becauseyou deserve and are amazing.<br />
( and also because anyone who gives my the phrase &#8221; bles smy sweet curly head which I have coopted as  &#8221; bless my sweet nappy head&#8221;) is awesome
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		<title>By: zardoz</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57686</link>
		<dc:creator>zardoz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if i sent a letter to a newspaper 
the Times ,

 lets say ...........

calling them shitMCdoodles and bunderheads of yesteryear

and derailed them
by sending a letter 
every day ,

(and the times publish it)

trying to throw a cog into their rails

by writing mean things , and crying for my right to be published

do i participate in something creative

or just air my meaness and problematic behavior 

without even paying for the psychotherapy of participating


wont the EDITOR start freaking out at some point 



stop freaking out , 
fuck my  few fellow greeks of idiotic content,
if i want to read their gibberish 
ill go to their 
soapbox and read their rubbish .



they have no rights in their own country (greece)

why do you  have to create a democracy 

for them which they have not bled to have it.! 

protect yourself and respect  your true readers

and your future with them. =Z=  ..YOURS TRULY =Zjr.=</description>
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<p>if i sent a letter to a newspaper<br />
the Times ,</p>
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<p> lets say &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
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<p>calling them shitMCdoodles and bunderheads of yesteryear</p>
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<p>and derailed them<br />
by sending a letter<br />
every day ,</p>
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<p>(and the times publish it)</p>
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<p>trying to throw a cog into their rails</p>
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<p>by writing mean things , and crying for my right to be published</p>
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<p>do i participate in something creative</p>
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<p>or just air my meaness and problematic behavior </p>
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<p>without even paying for the psychotherapy of participating</p>
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<p>wont the EDITOR start freaking out at some point </p>
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<p>stop freaking out ,<br />
fuck my  few fellow greeks of idiotic content,<br />
if i want to read their gibberish<br />
ill go to their<br />
soapbox and read their rubbish .</p>
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<p>they have no rights in their own country (greece)</p>
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<p>why do you  have to create a democracy </p>
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<p>for them which they have not bled to have it.! </p>
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<p>protect yourself and respect  your true readers</p>
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<p>and your future with them. =Z=  ..YOURS TRULY =Zjr.=
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		<title>By: Sudy</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57623</link>
		<dc:creator>Sudy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just stopping to leave bits and pieces of love in you home...just listening and reading quietly...

XO
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<p>Just stopping to leave bits and pieces of love in you home&#8230;just listening and reading quietly&#8230;</p>
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<p>XO<br />
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		<title>By: brownfemipower</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57318</link>
		<dc:creator>brownfemipower</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bless my curly little head!!! hahaha!!!</description>
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<p>bless my curly little head!!! hahaha!!!
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		<title>By: brownfemipower</title>
		<link>http://deviousdiva.com/2008/01/24/1112/#comment-57317</link>
		<dc:creator>brownfemipower</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and I am working my butt off trying to leave comments where ever I can, cuz I know that places that are chronically left with nasty commenters really could use the support!!!  

But I forget where I leave comments--I try to do those comment tracker things, but I forget to press the little thingy saying "monitor this conversation"--and next thing you know, i have left comments in twenty different places and only remember where I left about four or five of them.

I'm like a freaking squirrel or something--buring my little nuts all over the yard, and then spending the entire spring digging up the yard because I have no clue where I buried them to begin with.

:-)</description>
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<p>and I am working my butt off trying to leave comments where ever I can, cuz I know that places that are chronically left with nasty commenters really could use the support!!!  </p>
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<p>But I forget where I leave comments&#8211;I try to do those comment tracker things, but I forget to press the little thingy saying &#8220;monitor this conversation&#8221;&#8211;and next thing you know, i have left comments in twenty different places and only remember where I left about four or five of them.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m like a freaking squirrel or something&#8211;buring my little nuts all over the yard, and then spending the entire spring digging up the yard because I have no clue where I buried them to begin with.</p>
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<p> <img src='http://deviousdiva.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: deviousdiva</title>
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		<dc:creator>deviousdiva</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you. 

I am struggling under a deluge of the "negatives" and the backlash that they were bound to bring following my latest post (and actions)

Again, this is not about disagreement. It is about derailment.</description>
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<p>Thank you. </p>
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<p>I am struggling under a deluge of the &#8220;negatives&#8221; and the backlash that they were bound to bring following my latest post (and actions)</p>
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<p>Again, this is not about disagreement. It is about derailment.
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		<title>By: sly civilian</title>
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		<dc:creator>sly civilian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>still reading...

I've just been a rut for a while...i've kept up, but i've stopped writing.

one of these days, i think i'll be back at my own place and comments elsewhere...i hope things work out here.</description>
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<p>still reading&#8230;</p>
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<p>I&#8217;ve just been a rut for a while&#8230;i&#8217;ve kept up, but i&#8217;ve stopped writing.</p>
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<p>one of these days, i think i&#8217;ll be back at my own place and comments elsewhere&#8230;i hope things work out here.
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		<title>By: Martin Baldwin-Edwards</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martin Baldwin-Edwards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DD: there are people who do not deserve a hearing; that is why every organised country limits the freedom of expression. Some of the scum who comment here are beneath contempt, and it is appropriate that you "censor" the blog. Good luck with your continued struggle for informed debate on racial issues.</description>
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<p>DD: there are people who do not deserve a hearing; that is why every organised country limits the freedom of expression. Some of the scum who comment here are beneath contempt, and it is appropriate that you &#8220;censor&#8221; the blog. Good luck with your continued struggle for informed debate on racial issues.
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		<title>By: Just saying&#8230; at THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY</title>
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		<dc:creator>Just saying&#8230; at THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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