One of the benefits of Neighborhood Square is that it allows you to follow specific neighborhoods and post your own stories. Naturally, I started posting stories from East Village Today in the East Village neighborhood. At the time, I was the only one doing so, apart from the people at DNAInfo.
Fast forward to last week. I posted a couple of stories, and later I noticed they were gone. At first, I thought it was a server glitch on their side, so I waited until the following morning to see if the stories reappeared. They hadn't, so I reposted them.
Then, on Monday, the same thing happened: two of my stories disappeared. Again, I waited a day and reposted — this time they disappeared again!
I wrote to the people at Neighborhood Square:
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| My comment. |
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| Their reply. |
"Posts from neighbors," as if East Village Today is not a neighbor!
I wrote back:
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| My (abridged) response. |
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| Their reply again. |
I think Donna (The D in DNAInfo) thought I was concerned with my stories not being in their newsletter. The funny thing is, I didn't know they weren't in the newsletter — I don't subscribe to it!
So, this is how it stands. I, East Village Today, who brought Neighborhood Square to life with my postings, am now subject to arbitrary deletions.
I never suspected, when I started this blog almost three years ago, the antipathy that exists to the promotion of East Village coolness!
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