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Please properly check your sources before making an article about a suicide game.
And please dont forget that theres actually a lot of kids here too. A viewer discretion wont stop childrens natural curiosity.

I think this time it was a guest writer (?), but keep this in mind before publishing stuff like that...

Edit: It seems like the article is taken down, which is good.

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not just that, but i think there needs to be an internal investigation to see just who approved the story for publication (i've written a guest article before and that + the fact that there was a cutesy graphic made just for this story means that i'm 100% certain it couldn't have "accidentally" been published)

i have my suspicions, and if i'm correct then they've gotten in trouble for something similar before

and in case anybody missed the story and is confused, they posted this article (with a list of the challenges, which is. smart move vp)

*edit* in case anybody is unaware of what the blue whale challenge is, here's an in-depth explaination

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Wheatley wrote:
not just that, but i think there needs to be an internal investigation to see just who approved the story for publication (i've written a guest article before and that + the fact that there was a cutesy graphic made just for this story means that i'm 100% certain it couldn't have "accidentally" been published)

i have my suspicions, and if i'm correct then they've gotten in trouble for something similar before

and in case anybody missed the story and is confused, they posted this article (with a list of the challenges, which is. smart move vp)

*edit* in case anybody is unaware of what the blue whale challenge is, here's an in-depth explaination

Fiskarna
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Fiskarna wrote:
I'm the one who published the article that was sent in to us by a guest writer. I'm very sorry. I did not think about the consequences of what I did. It was irresponsible of me. When I noticed the reaction people had to it, I took it down and replaced it by another article. It had been up for about 47 minutes at that point. I was torn between "people need to be aware of stuff like this" and "is it inappropriate for VP?" I hope no impressionable user saw the article.

I will think twice next time I publish something.

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Fiskarna wrote:
I'm the one who published the article that was sent in to us by a guest writer. I'm very sorry. I did not think about the consequences of what I did. It was irresponsible of me. When I noticed the reaction people had to it, I took it down and replaced it by another article. It had been up for about 47 minutes at that point. I was torn between "people need to be aware of stuff like this" and "is it inappropriate for VP?" I hope no impressionable user saw the article.

I will think twice next time I publish something.

this is a rly good response thank u for acknowledging wht happened x

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Limited wrote:
omg i hate that game
its insane - think If someone would join that game (someone could do that)

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Fiskarna wrote:
I'm the one who published the article that was sent in to us by a guest writer. I'm very sorry. I did not think about the consequences of what I did. It was irresponsible of me. When I noticed the reaction people had to it, I took it down and replaced it by another article. It had been up for about 47 minutes at that point. I was torn between "people need to be aware of stuff like this" and "is it inappropriate for VP?" I hope no impressionable user saw the article.

I will think twice next time I publish something.

Thank you for acknowledging it.

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Fiskarna wrote:
I'm the one who published the article that was sent in to us by a guest writer. I'm very sorry. I did not think about the consequences of what I did. It was irresponsible of me. When I noticed the reaction people had to it, I took it down and replaced it by another article. It had been up for about 47 minutes at that point. I was torn between "people need to be aware of stuff like this" and "is it inappropriate for VP?" I hope no impressionable user saw the article.

I will think twice next time I publish something.

normally i'd be more sympathetic, but (like i said earlier) there was a thread made before where at least two users already said that they'd happily play the blue whale game, not to mention that one of the main things brought up in the TOS is promoting suicide (something that, even if there's a link to suicide hotlines at the bottom, sharing a list of ways to hurt yourself is promoting)

i appreciate your apology, but at the same time i feel like it should have been incredibly obvious that this was something that should not be shared on vp.

Fiskarna
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Fiskarna wrote:

Wheatley wrote:

Fiskarna wrote:
I'm the one who published the article that was sent in to us by a guest writer. I'm very sorry. I did not think about the consequences of what I did. It was irresponsible of me. When I noticed the reaction people had to it, I took it down and replaced it by another article. It had been up for about 47 minutes at that point. I was torn between "people need to be aware of stuff like this" and "is it inappropriate for VP?" I hope no impressionable user saw the article.

I will think twice next time I publish something.

normally i'd be more sympathetic, but (like i said earlier) there was a thread made before where at least two users already said that they'd happily play the blue whale game, not to mention that one of the main things brought up in the TOS is promoting suicide (something that, even if there's a link to suicide hotlines at the bottom, sharing a list of ways to hurt yourself is promoting)

i appreciate your apology, but at the same time i feel like it should have been incredibly obvious that this was something that should not be shared on vp.

I was not aware of any such threads at that time. I believe I've done everything I can, so I'll leave it to the mods to decide if they want to give me a TO.

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Fiskarna wrote:

Wheatley wrote:

Fiskarna wrote:
I'm the one who published the article that was sent in to us by a guest writer. I'm very sorry. I did not think about the consequences of what I did. It was irresponsible of me. When I noticed the reaction people had to it, I took it down and replaced it by another article. It had been up for about 47 minutes at that point. I was torn between "people need to be aware of stuff like this" and "is it inappropriate for VP?" I hope no impressionable user saw the article.

I will think twice next time I publish something.

normally i'd be more sympathetic, but (like i said earlier) there was a thread made before where at least two users already said that they'd happily play the blue whale game, not to mention that one of the main things brought up in the TOS is promoting suicide (something that, even if there's a link to suicide hotlines at the bottom, sharing a list of ways to hurt yourself is promoting)

i appreciate your apology, but at the same time i feel like it should have been incredibly obvious that this was something that should not be shared on vp.

I was not awarw of any such threads at that time. I've done everything I can, so I'll leave it to the mods to decide if they want to give me a TO or something.

Bear (bare?) with me here, I'm exhausted and frankly a little hung over lol.
I do not think a to will be necessary. While it is a touchie subject, it's not entirely your fault (admittedly I take some blame as well as I'm the one responsible for collecting the articles, and for that I sincerely apologize). It was taken down, apologies were made, and we will learn from our mistakes to make sure nothing like that will happen again.

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Photosynthesis wrote:

Fiskarna wrote:

Wheatley wrote:

normally i'd be more sympathetic, but (like i said earlier) there was a thread made before where at least two users already said that they'd happily play the blue whale game, not to mention that one of the main things brought up in the TOS is promoting suicide (something that, even if there's a link to suicide hotlines at the bottom, sharing a list of ways to hurt yourself is promoting)

i appreciate your apology, but at the same time i feel like it should have been incredibly obvious that this was something that should not be shared on vp.

I was not awarw of any such threads at that time. I've done everything I can, so I'll leave it to the mods to decide if they want to give me a TO or something.

Bear (bare?) with me here, I'm exhausted and frankly a little hung over lol.
I do not think a to will be necessary. While it is a touchie subject, it's not entirely your fault (admittedly I take some blame as well as I'm the one responsible for collecting the articles, and for that I sincerely apologize). It was taken down, apologies were made, and we will learn from our mistakes to make sure nothing like that will happen again.

just wanted to add (since i was the one that brought up the tos in the first place)

i apologize if my post came across as 'you deserve a to', because that's absolutely not what i meant at all (i meant it more along the lines of 'for future reference with articles, if a normal user would get a TO for it then it probably shouldn't be shared' )

you deleted the post and apologized, which is way more than i anticipated (and something i greatly appreciate) and while i'm still a little upset that it got posted at all, it got fixed in the end and if you got in trouble for something you already fixed i'd definitely be mad