Is it okay to take a post down?
I took a post down the other day
but no one noticed,
said anything.
Look, it had its chance.
But no one came up and asked it
to dance.
It slumped, sad and neglected on the page,
loudly weeping.
You can’t have that on a public forum.
It’s like that Philip Hodgkins poem, ‘Shooting the Dogs’.
I had to take it down to the basement,
put it out of its misery.
I just hope no one was watching.
John Malone 
I notice every time John. I get an email alert when you post a blog, and sometimes by the time I check, it’s already disappeared.
To answer your question: Yes, it’s OK to take down a post, and it shows your high standards for your work. I figure that whatever you ultimately choose to publish is then the best you have to offer.
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thanks, Eden, for that comment; yes, the work I took down was from the archive; I had no new material to put up so I prowled the archive; but the poem I found was awkward: the language a little dated, the rhythm not right; but this one, I got it in two takes 🙂
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if a post falls down in the middle of a day and no one hears it, was it real? )
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very witty, I like that 🙂
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Of course you are the pilot – put it up take it down, slap a bit more paint on it, change it around and then just bin it if is still not behaving itself. Same thing happens to me sometimes John.
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🙂 thanks; I enjoyed this comment 🙂
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I’m glad!
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I rarely take them down. Just let them flop around like fish on the river bank staring at a wide expanse of water. This might be more brutal, though. If there’s a bang in the basement and no one is around to hear it, does it really take place-sorta question. Your words lead us down that stairwell of thinking.
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I love that floundering metaphor; I’ve seen fish flopping like that on the jetty: an unnerving sight; my post, Anita + Heydon was mercifully and quietly dispatched; I think few noticed 🙂
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Anita and Heydon. Nice names too. Pity…….
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Some take their entire site downstairs, so why not a single post? Less messy that way.
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I did that, Chel, just over 3 years ago called ‘The Wallah of Whimsy’; missed blogging after awhile so began a new one, the one you’re reading now; it’s like cigarette smoking: blogging is an addiction. with no harmful consequences far as we know 🙂
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This makes me feel less aberrant to be considering the option.
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be aware though you lose all your posts, so keep them on file; and have a new one up your sleeve ‘coz once the blogging bug has you in its grip ,,,,,
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It annoys me when I get a comment and go to reply to and it says site no exist. Sorry Don……
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fair enough , Don; but it is very infrequent
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Yes tis infrequent……
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My links are bad because I dropped a URL. It’s annoying all over the place!
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Yes tis annoying Chel…….
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‘I had no new material to put up’…..
What’s going on John? Your muse gone on holiday?….😜
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we’re all different, Don; I manage one post a day MAX and I give it my best shot; sometimes I go three days without posting; that’s okay too; it works for me; everyone works to their own rhythm
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A moment of silence, please.
I loved that poem.
🙂
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so did Don; I’m re-posting it this morning; we’ll see if it gets any traffic 🙂
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I take posts down all the time. Sometimes I can go back, after some time, and fix them up and hopefully give them a second chance.
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that’s reassuring, Bob; I’m going to give ‘Anita + Heydon’ post a second chance; hopefuly it’ll get a few takers 🙂
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I think it’s alright to consider, act, and then reconsider. And the ending made me laugh but it was a nervous one. I hope that basement doesn’t have stories of its own to tell. Spooky…
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a lot of bad things happen there, Terveen 🙂 I’m getting feedback that I should give that trashed post a fair run —
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Some of us don’t know because we have so many different posts on our main page; not, necessary that we don’t care.
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I’m just humble 1 visitor per day chum, but please do whatever you think is right. The world needs more real people, not people who put on a show for others. If removing content, changing your writing style, changing platforms, etc. brings you relief, then do it. Maybe more people will start making content, whether it’s blogging, vlogging or live streaming, if people started acting more like themselves and stopped following trends, putting on facades and acting like perfect demi-gods(not accusing you of any of this). Sorry if it sounds like in ranting; I’m just bored.
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you’re very eloquent when you’re bored, Cameron; you make sense —
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Wow great blog John , very thought provoking to say the least
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thanks muchly 🙂
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Good
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What is it, I wonder, that motivates us to send a literary offspring out into cyberspace alone, defenseless, clueless as to why …
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I just like to do it, Jeff; a few I hesitate on, like are they too revealing ?
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