snoutpout primitive getting paranoid

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=437x3159

Oh my.

Snoutport  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-08-11 01:01 AM
Original message
 
Dear Skinner,

I don't know if you have read many of my posts but I have been pretty vocal about some issues at my school. Really terrible food mostly but some other posts that could probably get me in a little bit of hot water.

A few weeks ago, in a meeting, my supervisor brought up one of my DU posts. I think she was had googled a news article and my post came up and that is how she found the article. But, I know I have shared enough information that if they continue to try to look at my posts they will be able to identify me.

Over the past weeks I have been in a quandry what to do. My general attitude is that I have every right to share my story with people but I have been critical in ways that would get me called out and the pressure of that hanging over me is causing me some emotional distress.

I have tried to keep writing posts about my education experiences but every time I do not I begin to worry that I am digging my own grave. I also have to consider that if I get myself fired or transferred to a new school, my class and staff will be hurt as will my family.

Is it possible to have my profile and past writings deleted? I hate to do it, I am very proud of some of my posts, but I think I have no choice.

I will rejoin DU with a new name and continue to write but have decided that I need to be much less candid about my job and where I work.

I hope this is possible. I have a pretty stressful job as it is and the worry that I may have gone to far on DU has been making the stress worse.

I look forward to your response and, while I have your ear, I love your website. I feel greatly empowered and more knowledgeable since I have found it. DU is where I know go for news and for conversation.

Thank you! Snoutport

Skinner ADMIN  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-08-11 01:15 PM
Response to Original message

1. There is no way to mass-delete a bunch of posts.

If there is a small number, you can email me a list of links and I can manually delete them.

You can hide your profile in the DU options page.

Now, this is stupid, really stupid.

If the snoutpout primitive were confident in all that he wrote, he wouldn't even worry about it.

If the snoutpout primitive were honest in all that he wrote, he wouldn't even worry about it.

Now, if the snoutpout primitive were to be lying or slandering or exaggerating, which franksolich (and possibly others) personally believes the snoutpout primitive is doing, then he should worry about it, and therefore strive to be confident and honest in what he writes.

Yeah, sure, once in a while someone says something off-the-cuff and later regrets it.

franksolich has said a great many stupid or ridiculous things he later regretted saying, but franksolich has never asked that such comments be deleted or hidden.  franksolich shows, warts and all.

I kindly suggest the snoutpout primitive emulate franksolich's confidence and honesty. 

[Ballygrl]

If he's so upset than why did he do a long post the other day about getting beaten up by 1 of his students?

[franksolich]

If he's so upset than why did he do a long post the other day about getting beaten up by 1 of his students?

You know, madam, if the snoutpout primitive'd been confident and honest in writing that post, he wouldn't be worrying about it now.

Of course, it goes without saying that if he'd been confident and honest in writing that post, he would've told the truth.

[Karin]

Wonder if he read our thread here, and us commenting on the fact that he didn't seem competent to do such a job.  Took him an hour and a half to get anything under control, and he still came out of it battered and bleeding.  A real risk to the other students. 

A few weeks ago, in a meeting, my supervisor brought up one of my DU posts

I burst out laughing. 

[formerlurker]

Snoutpout --  if your school board ever read any of your posts at DU and connected them to you, you would be fired in a second.   So would your "boss" (who in the teaching world refers to their principal as their "boss?") for knowing about it and not stopping it (and firing your ass, which makes me believe this conversation never happened).  God forbid if the families of the students you monitor (as teach is far too generous a term) see them.   You personally have violated their rights to privacy, especially if you linked an article to your post.  You are liable.   You better pray none of your dear friends at the DU drops a dime on you.

I think I don't need to state any further how much you disgust me.  

However, I must comment on this:

I have tried to keep writing posts about my education experiences but every time I do not I begin to worry that I am digging my own grave. I also have to consider that if I get myself fired or transferred to a new school, my class and staff will be hurt as will my family.

I will try to be as clear as possible here,  the staff you work with are not  yours.   The only person in your building who can refer to them as such is your principal.  At $40K a year, I would venture to guess you aren't even tenured (i.e. have professional status).    Get the hell over yourself.  

Your gross incompetence makes you a danger to your students.   Find another profession.  

[thundley4]

I think she was had googled a news article and my post came up and that is how she found the article.

That sounds a little confusing.

[franksolich]

That sounds a little confusing.

It's confusing because it's a lie.

The snoutpout primitive is worried that decent and civilized people from the DUmpster will get him into trouble, but of course given my fellow alum Skins's iron-clad rule about not mentioning this place, the snoutpout primitive can't say that, and so made up the source of his concern.

I've oftentimes wondered if any primitive's ever noticed that primitives who are being straightforward and honest and confident in their comments, are primitives always absent from commentary in the DUmpster.

[USA4ME]

... decent and civilized people from the DUmpster ...

I'm still waiting to see one of those.

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[franksolich]

I'm still waiting to see one of those.

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From here, the DUmpster, not from Skins's island, sir.

[USA4ME]

From here, the DUmpster, not from Skins's island, sir.

Ah.... my Ooops.

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[Tucker]

snoutpout senses a storm coming. He's crossed some line somewhere in his little world. He's running scared.

[GOBUCKS]

Well, I think snotspout is afraid his "husband" will find his history at the DUmp, and here.
The recent physical rebuke he received from an outraged United States Marine in a public restroom may be part of his problem.

Does this lunatic really think he would not be instantly recognized under a new name?
When he's as nutty as Pam Dawson?

[BattleHymn]

Through the magic of Google, Snoutport, your posts will never be lost.  Deal with it.  Conservative Cave is result #5, #6, and #7 on Google now, when searching "Snoutport". 

[franksolich]

Through the magic of Google, Snoutport, your posts will never be lost.  Deal with it.  Conservative Cave is result #5, #6, and #7 on Google now, when searching "Snoutport". 

Thank you for pointing that out, sir.