December 03, 2003

Tried and True Ways to Hide Embarrassing Posts

I feel a bit squeamish about that last post - it seems puerile and juvenile. Following the "out of sight, out of mind" cliche, I'll share ways you too can use banish embarrassing posts. Out, out damn spot!

1) Simply add posts. If you post too much, people aren't going to page all the way to the bottom of the stack and read everything (unless you're me and you're reading Disputations). Most just glance over the top couple posts and click away.

2) Add distracting graphics. Maybe a picture or two. Pictures grab our attention; text cannot compete.



3) Link to a story of religious misdeeds. For some reason, people are fascinated by stories of clerics doing wrong.

4) Abruptly change the subject to an analysis of where Kant and Hegel went wrong.

5) Uh, hey, I just thought: I could just delete the post or not write it in the first place. Hmm....

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