I took 2/3ds of posts here, offline
I am taking most posts offline and leaving a set of the original posts on topics like “Denmark is the world’s happiest country” and similar long form posts made over the years.
As of 14 December 2024, approximately 500 posts have reverted to “Draft” status and just over 1400 posts have been moved to “Private” status and are no longer publicly available. Total visible posts,, from 11 years of blog posts, have gone from over 3,000 to less than 1,000.
Posts have been removed because:
- They were outdated
- They were no longer relevant
- They covered topics that were “off topic” for this blog
- They were duplicate posts (created inadvertently when the blog was migrated between servers)
- They were duplicate content (e.g. a dozen posts on Twitter shadow banning when only one is needed)
- A few hundred had never been published and remain in “Draft” mode
- Some were not as well written as they needed to be and could have been confusing
- Some posts needed to be edited and/or updated with new content to remain relevant
- It is risky to leave old posts online – someone will comb through old content, years from now – or may be next week – and selectively interpret them out of context or critique them under the new rules du jour in vogue in the future. Thus, why leave old posts that are outdated or no longer relevant, online?
The goal is to have quality posts on topics related to propaganda and persuasion of people, social media and media, including debunking some social media memes, and calling out some significant media errors. Less content, well written and targeted, is more effective at communicating the issues related to online propaganda – than thousands of posts on too many topics.