An unassuming taxi driver and part-time cartoonist named Bob Frank receives a soap operatic postcard from an estranged ex-girlfriend -- "My life is anAn unassuming taxi driver and part-time cartoonist named Bob Frank receives a soap operatic postcard from an estranged ex-girlfriend -- "My life is an UNHOLY MESS ...... I'M SENDING OUR KID ...... Her name is Casey"; and over the next 120+ pages, Bob and Casey get to know each other in a series of quiet scenes that accrete into a bond that is familiar if not familial. Joel Orff's scratchy, uncertain line embodies both Casey's anxiety and Bob's tentativeness in a way that a cleaner stroke would miss. This moment describing Casey's second night in the apartment cuts to the heart of the cartooning miracle -- that a set of lines can both symbolize "face" ~and~ describe a specific face of a specific person in time, and that that face can, if th elements align so, reveal an ✨interior event� [image]...more
From: ŷ To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [#85956] Flagged Review
Hi there,
Your review of Tom Strong, Book 1 From: ŷ To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [#85956] Flagged Review
Hi there,
Your review of Tom Strong, Book 1 was recently flagged by several ŷ members. It appears that this section of your review could be read as racially offensive:
He's got a pretty black wife and a pretty half-breed daughter
We strive to maintain a safe and comfortable environment at ŷ, and we try to stay away from using potentially hurtful terms. Given this, would you mind rephrasing this part of your review or removing it entirely? If this hasn't been replaced in three business days, we will unfortunately have to remove the review.
has a ŷ employee examined my review, or is this an automated message ? Do what you want, it's your site, but it'd be to everyone's advantage to have a human review complaints before deleting user reviews
regards, MZA
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From: ŷ To: mizzahh@.*** Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [#85956] Flagged Review
Hi MZA,
We carefully examined your review before sending out this message. As a clarification, the review will only be removed in three business days if you do not remove the part that we highlighted in our previous message.
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Re: [#85956] Flagged Review From: Booboo To: ŷ
hello ŷ,
I don't have questions. You have been clear, and as I acknowledged before, it's your site, not mine, you do as you please. But since I am talking to a human, you might as well know that what you're asking me to do is change th way I write because someone else didn't like it. What kind of person would submit to such pressure from a web site and "several" sensitive flaggers? That's right, a coward. Think on it: what if th same standards were applied to books on Amazon or books in th library -- as a company that celebrates writing in all of its manifestations -- bad writing, good writing, great writing, uplifting writing, miserable writing, evil writing, confusing writing, divine writing -- you can see th irony in deleting writing that doesn't mimic a political orthodoxy or whose humor might be impenetrable.
It's not that I don't like your site. But if it's true that you prefer to cultivate users of a certain political stripe and exclude th ideological riff-raff, it'd probably be more efficient to delete ALL my reviews. "He's got a pretty black wife and a pretty half-breed daughter" is in th bottom-third percentile of most offensive things I've ever written.
regards MZA
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Re: [#85956] Flagged Review From: ŷ To: mizzahh@.***
Hi MZA,
Thank you for your feedback. While we do appreciate your position, this particular comment violates our Terms of Service. Sorry about that.
Sincerely, The ŷ Team
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Re: [#85956] Flagged Review From: Booboo To: ŷ
hello ŷ, well I'm not deleting it and don't plan on altering my style or word choice in any future communications, so this heroic deletion of thoughtcrime's on you
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