Dropsite isn’t banned because of credibility, it’s banned because we don’t allow blogs. Full stop.

You could be the most award winning journalist in the world on Twitter or Facebook, you’re still getting removed because we don’t allow Twitter or Facebook.

Guardian isn’t “Questionable”.

“MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY”

We’d allow that.

No, I’m tired of dealing with all the bullshit here so I’m just fucking with you now.

We don’t link to blogs, they’re a substack blog. Deal with it. Don’t like it? Fuck off.

Just curious, what flaws?

Remember!

We don’t allow Facebook or Twitter pages either. :)

The rules are simple, no social media bullshit. Blogsites are a subsection of social media.

No Twitter/Facebook/Youtube/Reddit, but also no Substack/Blogger/Wordpress/Blogspot.

Similarly, no self posts, no videos, no image posts, no shit posts, no memes.

All of this is clearly stated. Don’t like it? Door is over there… ->

Again, see bottom of page:

Nope! See bottom of page:

No, but melting polar caps doesn’t directly kill black people. Well, not yet, give it another 10 years.

All I’m saying is, if your mission statement is “Black Lives Matter” then it has to be ALL black lives. Not just the ones that fit your agenda.

Flip it around, ACAB - yeah, pretty much true across the board.

Wordpress sites are obviously real websites, but they aren’t news articles.

If you don’t like it, feel free to fire up your own community and enjoy all the blogspam that gets posted. (There’s a lot!)

Then they’re welcome to pony up for a domain registration and detach themselves from a host that also has un-vetted material.

Look, it’s really simple:

There are legit journalists on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube too… we don’t allow links to those sites EITHER.

This is NO DIFFERENT. We aren’t going through an entire platform, account by account, picking and choosing.

Dropsite is hosted on a blogging platform that fails to differentiate personal commentary from anything else and as such, yes, we block that entire blogging platform.

If they aren’t going to differentiate, then we aren’t either.

“But, but, real journalists on Twitter…”

Don’t care. Twitter isn’t a source either.

Or you just admit you’re supporting an acknowledged hate site. I’m not engaging in your sea lioning. If you want it, go find it yourself. I’m not digging through hate material for you.

If they don’t want to be associated with blogs, they’re free to register a domain and go fully independent.

If it’s hosted on a blog hosting site, by definition, it’s a blog. It doesn’t matter if it’s substack, blogger, medium, wordpress, what have you. We don’t send traffic to blogs.

And, again, we don’t differentiate because we aren’t going to be drawn into the argument of “but what about this one, but what about that one…”

NO BLOGS!

And rapidly became more than that… See the disruption of Bernie Sanders speech in Seattle back in the day.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/11/9127653/bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter

Once they start writing for a reputable source again, we’ll be happy to link to them. We aren’t linking to blog sites.

Again, because we aren’t going to be drawn into the debate of “Why did you allow THAT Blogger site but not MY bullshit blogspam site?”

We aren’t going to manually vet 10,000 blog sites, twitter accounts, facebook pages, reddit posts, Instagrams, etc. etc.

The only FAIR way to do it is what we’re doing now: “No, not a valid source. Find a legitimate source.”

Blog, we don’t allow blogs.

No, I’m saying we aren’t going to link to a hate site, and any site depicting Jews as spiders, cockroaches, or octopus is a hate site. Mondoweiss is a hate site. MBFC has it right, if you think they’re wrong, then you might have your own bias issue to confront.

You act like there is not an established definition:

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/weblog

“A blog, short for weblog, is a frequently updated web page used for personal commentary or business content.”

The key point there, for me, is “personal commentary”. That’s not news, that’s not journalism. It’s uniquely distinguished from actual reporting.