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Providing access, blocking access

Dirk Gently (in Douglas Adams’ books) spoke of “the fundamental interconnectedness of all things” … MMutR spoke of “cascading”, e.g. engineering failures. Every action of each of us affects the others to a greater or lesser degree.

Hypothetical … let’s say we have a regular called Amelioration (henceforth Ame) … she posts not just descriptions but actual footage of baddies doing things, either droning on about … or the actual misdeeds.

My X account is littered with blocked accounts right now and all had vile things I blocked … now here’s the thing … the vast majority are “right” wing or conservative accounts, just a few are genuine globopsycho or wokeleft trolls.

Why so? It’s because the overzealousness of the enthusiast did not take into account the whole scene, the overview. There are bots and letter agency gremlins constantly looking out for just such things, which is the worst scenario … through to best scenario such as obnoxious footage of Starmer apologising, something I flatly refuse to have up … there was one of Chas at NOWP of late and the thumbnail was vile. However, it was a youtube from one of our regulars, plus it had info we needed.

Which brings me to the unwritten contract I have with our regulars … my prime directive as I see it is to provide at least a pointer in order to pursue the topic … afap. I consider HQ comments, which are usually prominent in the sidebar for that day as another page, just as NOWP, UHC-HQ, Jstack and OoL are. Let alone X.

But sometimes I need to provide more, such as now at 0342, Sat 7 Feb (I just read that top left of screen) … thus it’s how I write it up. Sometimes, a comment or drop is clear enough in its text, e.g. Steve’s current comment, but the link is to either X or an MSM source. Still, it fulfils my obligation to the regulars plus the readers … you can find the Starmer speech if you’re obsessed enough … join X or go to the Beeb itself. Voila.

However, not all are on X for their own reasons and that’s fine. At HQ, X does not expand in comments. Also, for a YT to expand, only NOWP does that job in our complex. Clearly, I need to provide a bit more though and thus I run a standalone page at HQ called “Longer pieces at HQ”.

From 0352 to 1052 today (near elevenses), I’ll provide the url HERE and then take it down.

As for Anne H … url is HERE … that is up now until 7 a.m.

Why these “games”? Security, as simple as that. What I’m expecting is that if you’re interested in a topic, then you’ll bookmark that url … you can then go to it at any time … it’s not intended though for stumble-upons, just for regulars.

Back to Steve’s comment (item 3 on the Longer pieces at HQ page), it provides some explanatory text from X but as warned, not the footage. It gives the Beeb url and they have the footage there at their place if you want it. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Also, sometime today, I’ll put an index at the top of the Longer pieces at HQ … you’d still need to scroll down to the required item … we’re not all that sophisticated on a 2012, pre-responsive-era template.