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Originally Posted by Trollheart
See, this is the kind of thing I mean. So much has been written so well and is now all but forgotten. I mean, to hell with mine, though thanks for the compliment: I'm here and can choose to resurrect any old ones I like, such as the Classic Albums one and Bitesize, and I am working on others. But those who have put so much into their journals and then, for various reasons, left them, are having their work lost in the miasma of often sub-standard (though not always) and unattended journals, or those on which their authors have given up.
I'm not sure about the sticky. Good idea, but again I think it might possibly be seen as a little presumptuous by the owners, should they still be here or come back. There may be a good reason such journals have been dropped, and it would probably be unfair and even slightly arrogant to decide they should be, well, forced back into the limelight. Which is, again, why I abandoned the idea of posting in them to raise them to page one. This way, anyone can read them, but they don't necessarily get highlighted against, possibly, the authors' wishes. Of course, if those authors are around and agreed to such an arrangement, cool. But I don't think we should do it without at least their input, if not their agreement or permission.
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I get where you're coming from in terms of politeness, but at the end of the day, once they post it on MB, they don't own that data anymore - MB (or their parent company) does.
If they're no longer around, we can't get their permission - and since they're not around, I don't think they'll mind a simple link being posted to their journal in the stickied index. I mean, it's not like we're linking to their family photo albums or anything, we're preserving their work for any future readers - and at the end of the day, I think that's the whole reason they posted the journal - so that others could read it and possibly enjoy it.