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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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Zo Offline
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A few anti-school sites which I greatly enjoyed have suddenly disappeared. I was wondering if anybody knew what happened:

--Student Liberation Project redirects to a BlueHost page.

--Eqi, a site about emotional intelligence with some pages about schools, had its main page replaced with this. Some of its other pages are still accessible, though.

--Screenstorming's forums are active, but the rest of the site is filled with dummy text.

However, I did just find this site. It just got published and most of it appears incomplete, but it could be promising.
08-20-2014 04:16 AM
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This kind of thing happens all the time, unfortunately. We've lost so many "allies", as Soul calls them, to bad hosting, inactivity, and the like.

As for Screenstorming, it's a work in progress, and it may or may not be replaced by SSN. You'll have to check with xcrit about that.

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08-20-2014 04:23 AM
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A lot of the allies (or whatever they're called) need to be updated. Student Voice for example can be called an ally yet I don't think they're listed...

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Here's another index type thing for EQI that links to useful things:
http://core.eqi.org/index.htm

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Haven't certain schools taken down these types of sites by "putting spies in"? (school staff secretly registering on the site and stuff)

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I doubt it, though I'm very aware of schools monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks (going as far as to be able to read Facebook messages).

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IIRC a court case ruled that unless it threatens to kill or harm any staff members or students, then they can't do shit about it...

Pretty Much my only signature...I'm mainly a lurker....you can find me on the IRC (or on DnE and their IRC).

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Ban dem trolls.

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Check out Student Voice, which has an upcoming live event in NYC on Sept. 20, and Connected Learning Alliance, which has ongoing Google Hangouts and a proposed SXSW Edu panel in Spring, 2015: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/40224 -- Make an account there and vote for it to increase its chances.

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https://web.archive.org/web/201407041335...ation.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/201407050345...w.eqi.org/ Looks bad ...
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(08-25-2014 07:36 AM)Missile Wrote:  Haven't certain schools taken down these types of sites by "putting spies in"? (school staff secretly registering on the site and stuff)

Argh, I hate it when schools do that. I believe SS had an article about a someone's homework cheat ring being spied on by school officials posing as student users.

However, these sites couldn't have been logged into--they didn't have forums as School Survival and Resist Conformity do. They could have been blocked by school filters; this wouldn't have stopped students from visiting at home, though.
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