129 comments this diary received - all negative (nearly all of the ridicule, sarcasm, flame, rant variety) objected to this personal diary page and my statement on why I don't choose to use it/Kos as a public venue for my work) The most frequent complaints seemed to be about "spam", "self advertising" or my personal objection to paying to not have someone else's commercial advertising piggyback itself on one's work. So be it.
About spam: I'm removing the list of titles of work that anyone might request to look at should they have interest. I take it no one thinks papers or proposals say, for a 'national monument for the victims of lynching' or a '99% safe method for preventing deep-sea oil drilling catastrophes' is of any interest. Fine. I've no problem with that. You're not interested, you not interested (though I note several that several who dismissed the offered work out of hand with the aforementioned sarcasm, had not read any of them.) No matter. The list is removed. If anyone should want to see it, they can let me know privately and I'll be glad to provide it.
Self Promotion: Also removing the links to The Sacramento Z Newspaper, though I'm not certain when putting a link to one's own, non-commercial, free, community-based project became "spam". But again, removing that too. Anyone who wants to see it can look it up or again message me and I'll be glad to provide the links. And again, there were some who condemned The Z outright and said they would never "click it". Ok too. Interesting method of critiquing something. But ok, the link will be removed.
About my Intro: why I'm not posting writing for public view on Kos, will remain here as it is, whether anyone likes it or not. It's my opinion on the matter. If no one likes it or no one agrees with it, fine. I don't offer opinions (or write) with the view that anyone has to like them. That's not the point of having an opinion. I don't think Kos operates that way. I certainly don't.
(original) Intro
I generally make my work freely available to any who may have interest in it. I am also fully sympathetic with Kos' need to find ways to support itself and I have, in the past, made donations within my means to help it do that. However, I do not permit my own work to be commodified, nor to have it serve as a vehicle for advertising and promotion under the terms that I must agree to pay to have it remain ad free. For me, that is the equivalent to holding my work hostage to intrusive commercialization.
This not only violates my personal principles about compelling payment to have freely contributed materials remain free from commercial exploitation, but also violates the spirit and content of much of my work. For that reason, my diaries -- what I choose to park here at Kos -- will remain unpublished until/unless Kos decides to change its policies about diary publication.
[ps. responding to a single comment (by by Cinnamon on Mon Feb 23, 2015 at 11:21:19 AM PST) who seems to think the number of posts, or number of years one is on a site is somehow related to evaluating the content of posts). This poster thought they might add something to the matter by discussing a totally unrelated issue of my being blocked on facebook by facebook. Things Cinnamon didn't bother to mention in their rant, or find out before making his ad hominem attack:
-- Cinnamon didn't bother to mention that facebook's blocking was arbitrary and capricious (as it often is) and that my "hissy fit" (as Cinnamon called it) forced FB to recant and rescind the block;
-- Cinnamon didn't bother to mention that there is no way to pay your way out of ads on facebook;
-- Cinnamon didn't bother to mention that I invested for nearly a decade on building a good reputation on FB among many friends, and fought the matter as I did to keep from having to throw all that away and start over;
-- Cinnamon didn't bother to mention that the FB block was abrupt, unannounced and prevented me from accessing any personal materials, so it was essential to fight them just to recover things I had there.
-- Cinnamon didn't bother to mention that FB provides no way to remove ads from their pages. Nor did they bother to mention that my personal profile on FB has the statement "SCREW THE ADS ON THIS PAGE, I DIDN'T ASK FOR THEM".
-- Nor could Cinnamon know, had FB made a rule that forced me to pay to have them remove ads from their pages, I might have seriously considered closing my account, after recovering and downloading my materials.
-- Had Cinnamon bothered to even read the details of the matter, they would have known that I didn't regard the FB block as simply a personal matter, but believe users should have certain 'civil rights' with respect to our use of public online venues, no different than we do on real-world use of public commons and conveyances (regardless of whether they are privately owned or not. (to that end I have put up a petition to that effect, though I provide no link here to avoid specious "spam" or "promotion" charges. )
So much for Cinnamon and their nonsense and personal problem with my diary, whatever that may be. As for the rest, suit yourselves. The comments that might have been interesting, comments on actual works or of articles in The Z, was entirely absent. I leave the comments here, Instructive, perhaps for saying more about those who commented than they do about my actual diary or its content.]