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So far the comments I have received on the redesign of my website, http://dreamhart.org, have been mostly positive. And even those few which have not been positive have been informative, mostly since their content has given me a rather interesting view into who exactly among my friends has never read my website in any of its various incarnations. Still, I feel compelled to present the following time-line for the edification of anyone else who feels compelled to comment on the "recent" inclusion of certain obviously sensitive information on my website.
I first created a Reiki section of my website on January 9th, 2005. I created a link to it from the main portion of my website on January 10th, 2005. This is easily verifiable from archive.org copies of my website's changelog from 2005. Of particular note in this timeline is the original content and dedication of the WanderingPaths Reiki Annex. As well as the original content of the section on Imara Reiki, the original content of the section on Channeled Reiki Symbols, and the original content of the section of Reiki Links.
Three years pass. It is now 2008. I purchased a new domain, and moved from http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org to http://dreamhart.org. It was announced in my livejournal on June 18th, 2008. At this time the old version of my website was moved to http://wanderingpaths.dreamhart.org The last update to that version of my website was made on June 21st, 2008 when I added a reiki symbol that I had channeled as part of a working on March 27th, 2007 and had never added to the Annex.
Another eight months pass. It is now February, 2009. I finally get off my ass and update the website, creating a new theme for it that had been in the works for a while and moving over to wordpress as a content management system rather than coding the site manually. The completed redesign of the site and the move of all old content onto the new version went live and was announced publicly on Thursday, February 19 2009 at 03:26 pm.
On Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 10:19 PM I receive an email asking me to remove the aforementioned clearly sensitive information.
On Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 11:54 PM I check my email and respond to the initial request to remove the information.
On Friday, February 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM I send a second email confirming that I have gone through both the new version of my site, and the still-extant archive of the old version of my site, and have removed the information requested.
Total time the information has been on my site: 4 years, 1 month, and 9 days.
Total time the information was on my site after the email was sent requesting its removal: 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Total time the information was on my site after I read the email requesting its removal: 13 minutes, which included hunting down all mention of it on the old version of the site and manually removing it from the html code.
So, given this time-line of events, can anyone tell me why it is that two days later, on Saturday February 21st I go to a party with friends and some of the comments I am receiving on the redesign of the website are not about any of the newly added content or the new look for the site, but are instead about the incredibly confidential information I "recently" added and how I shouldn't have gone and done that?
Like I said, it's certainly given me a good idea of who has never read my site before, but all in all it seems pretty damned silly to be stirring up drama over.
I first created a Reiki section of my website on January 9th, 2005. I created a link to it from the main portion of my website on January 10th, 2005. This is easily verifiable from archive.org copies of my website's changelog from 2005. Of particular note in this timeline is the original content and dedication of the WanderingPaths Reiki Annex. As well as the original content of the section on Imara Reiki, the original content of the section on Channeled Reiki Symbols, and the original content of the section of Reiki Links.
Three years pass. It is now 2008. I purchased a new domain, and moved from http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org to http://dreamhart.org. It was announced in my livejournal on June 18th, 2008. At this time the old version of my website was moved to http://wanderingpaths.dreamhart.org The last update to that version of my website was made on June 21st, 2008 when I added a reiki symbol that I had channeled as part of a working on March 27th, 2007 and had never added to the Annex.
Another eight months pass. It is now February, 2009. I finally get off my ass and update the website, creating a new theme for it that had been in the works for a while and moving over to wordpress as a content management system rather than coding the site manually. The completed redesign of the site and the move of all old content onto the new version went live and was announced publicly on Thursday, February 19 2009 at 03:26 pm.
On Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 10:19 PM I receive an email asking me to remove the aforementioned clearly sensitive information.
On Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 11:54 PM I check my email and respond to the initial request to remove the information.
On Friday, February 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM I send a second email confirming that I have gone through both the new version of my site, and the still-extant archive of the old version of my site, and have removed the information requested.
Total time the information has been on my site: 4 years, 1 month, and 9 days.
Total time the information was on my site after the email was sent requesting its removal: 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Total time the information was on my site after I read the email requesting its removal: 13 minutes, which included hunting down all mention of it on the old version of the site and manually removing it from the html code.
So, given this time-line of events, can anyone tell me why it is that two days later, on Saturday February 21st I go to a party with friends and some of the comments I am receiving on the redesign of the website are not about any of the newly added content or the new look for the site, but are instead about the incredibly confidential information I "recently" added and how I shouldn't have gone and done that?
Like I said, it's certainly given me a good idea of who has never read my site before, but all in all it seems pretty damned silly to be stirring up drama over.
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And that's why I don't offer comments on anyone's website unless there are problems with the site itself (as in unreadable colors or broken links). I don't want to make myself look like an idiot, especially when it has nothing to do with me.
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We've been aware that legal names were on your old site, and are still on our site and on the internet worldwide. I'm not sure what people at the party were assuming (most people haven't gone through either site thoroughly), but the original objection was that the new site displayed the names much more prominently in a potentially more unfriendly environment, not that it was a breach of confidentiality.
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Nor was it how I took Rialian's email to me, which said simply: "===I have no issue with you referring to my work or my brother's work in terms of Reiki...but please remove our legal names. That was rather rude, especially as we are the only ones that you decided to do that to." This also gives the impression that the names themselves were something new and different on my site, and that they had been added to somehow target Rialian and Eyovah.
I would also suggest that the revamp of my site did not make the names all that much more prominent in the long run. The latest posts widget displays only the most recent ten posts. As of right now, two more posts will knock them entirely off the main page, at which point readers will need to navigate through the site on their own to find them, just as they did on the old site. Not that it matters anymore, since I've already removed the legal names from my site in every instance where they occurred.
But really, I don't believe that was the issue. These are names that both Rialian and Eyovah use quite freely on their own sites, and which have been used quite freely on the sites of others in both the past and present. Rialian is very clearly not concerned with the names being connected where they are posted elsewhere:
What it really comes down to is that Rialian is no longer comfortable with me using them, because of the arguments we had this past summer. And that's fine, he asked me to remove them and I was happy to do so. And I would have let it go at that, if it hadn't become apparent that this was no longer a matter just between him and I (and anyone else sharing his surname) but uninvolved third-parties were being brought into it as well.
When someone's introduction to my website, having never read it themselves, is someone telling them that I modified my site in such a way that it made his personal information publicly available it very clearly creates some negative and false impressions about me. I didn't feel like leaving those impressions stand unanswered, and I couldn't individually try to find every third-party who may have been told this and speak to them on an individual level to make sure that they understood my site has always had Rialian and Eyovah credited that way for the past four years. This post was my best option to prevent the spread of any further misconceptions, whether those misconceptions were spread intentionally or not.
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> were something new that I added during this revamp of my site, not that
> they were there all along.
I'm not sure why. Your name wasn't even mentioned and the use-of-legal-names being something new that you added was not something that was ever said. That would have been ludicrous, since a simple search yields about 30 instances of the names on our own site and myriad other sites. The problem obviously stemmed from something else. I suspect the people who saw the site derived these conclusions on their own.
> What it really comes down to is that Rialian is no longer comfortable
> with me using them, because of the arguments we had this past summer.
This is accurate. It a potentially more unfriendly environment right now since people have gotten a bit annoyed with each other.
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> suspect the people who saw the site derived these
> conclusions on their own.
I don't believe so. Rialian even presented the use of the legal names in his letter to me as if it was something new I had just done, and said it was rude of me to have used them at all when I had not done so for anyone other than him and Eyovah. If this is the same way he presented it to others, with them not knowing the history of the website themselves, they justifiably concluded that I had just added the names in this revision, not simply changed the layout of the site around. And I would have to say that this seems to have been the impression intended, since there was literally no other reason to bring it up to others at all.
> This is accurate. It a potentially more unfriendly
> environment right now since people have gotten a bit
> annoyed with each other.
*shrugs* Strange that it wasn't an issue before now, then. We didn't just suddenly start getting annoyed at each other when I revamped my site, that happened months back and no request was made between then and now for me to remove his or Eyovah's legal names from my website until the revamp. Nor did I make any drastic changes in how I was presenting his name or his material on my site during this revamp, other than basic layout. The only real changes in existing content were twofold: the dedication of the Reiki Annex to Rialian and Eyovah is no longer there, simply because there is no longer a separate Reiki Annex anymore, and in the Otherkin Links section I described Ri as "a very interesting person who I am glad to have known even if we don’t always see eye to eye" rather than "a very good friend" as it said in the old version because I thought it would be rather deceitful to refer to him with such familiarity when we are not presently speaking.
If potential hostility is the concern, fine. I have no issue with that. In fact, I really don't care what his ultimate reasons were for asking me to remove the names. I was happy to do so and did so with all possible haste once I received the request from him. I would have left it at that and considered the matter entirely settled by my two email responses to him. This only became an issue I felt I needed to take public when I learned that other uninvolved individuals were being informed about the revamp of my site in negative terms having to do with the inclusion of Rialian's legal name.
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If you want more details, email me personally. This is all I feel comfortable saying in public, and I have no wishes to interact with public communities at all any further or to be a representative of any group politically in the future or present.
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The text is decidedly difficult for me to read unless I'm in a completely darkened room. Have you considered lightening it a bit, or am I the only one with this problem? Font sizes are rather small in places as well, but still readable as long as the text is highlighted so there's some color contrast.
Also, you might want to double-check your links. I found at least one going to http://dreamhart.org/?page_id=101#unacceptable which should have gone to
http://dreamhart.org/wordpress/?page_id=101#unacceptable
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Could you give me some examples of the places you have found font-sizes to be too small? That would help in eventually creating an alternative style.
As for the page links, the problem seems to have been that Wordpress tried to insert a full URL where I just wanted an anchor on some copied material. Fixing it right now.
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It was MY opinion that using someone's rl name if one didn't have permission (and I thought maybe you didn't initially due to my impression of things, which again, could have been wrong) was not cool. That was all. Period.
So, I am sorry if I inadvertently started up drama for EITHER of you. That was not my intention. And I am not going to mention either of you to the other in the future.
Again, my apologies if my opinion overstepped my bounds in anyway for either of you.
Caveat: Lyssa is writing this on little sleep. Lys was ALSO inebriated at said party around the time she made that comment and not really thinking beyond "What do I think of the site", which equaled "Pretty! Great job! But not cool on one thing."
I count you both as friends and I am staying out of this.
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