On June 29, 2013 Bubblews made an important announcement post. This post bred life into the comment section and meaningful discussion took place. However, for some reason every comment except for one on that post was deleted. The one comment that was allowed to remain, suggested that Bubblews staff rest and take it easy.

When I first noticed this on June 30, 2013, I left a comment noting my observations. Additionally, I mentioned how the mass deletion of a day’s worth of comments, sparing just the one that told Bubblews to rest, really changed and distorted how the discussion looked. I also expressed my doubt that every other post from that day violated the the Bubblews TOS or rules in The Bank.

Sharifa McFarlane then also offered her own comment when she noticed this mass deletion of comments. Amazingly, both our comments plus the one that had previously remained from June 29, 2013 were also deleted. I made one more comment to alert Sharifa of these additional deletions and this too was deleted. Shortly thereafter Laurie Tysinger also commented on this thread, questioning what happened to all of the comments from June 29, 2013. She was flabbergasted at the speed at which her comment was deleted.

Bubblews users deserve better and they deserve an explanation for this incident. However, is the whole sad episode really that surprising, when a comment like this can be read elsewhere on this site:

BubblewsSupport1 on June 30th, 2013 @ 06:33 pm “Those members who complained a lot are the one blatantly violating our Term of use/Rules and many of them are liar. Even caught in action for plagiarizing they will still argue with me. It’s member’s responsibilities to read and understand our Term of use/Rules. NOT EVERYTHING will be SPOON-FED by the Bubblews Team. Our SIMPLE RULES are already written at the Bank section. Thank you.”

Despite extermination of legitimate comments on Bubblews, the fact is June 29, 2013 existed on this thread in a very real and active way. That collective commenting experience will never be fully erased by the folks who control the switches at Bubblews. However, that does not remove the stain of disgrace upon this deletion protocol.

After publishing this on FullofKnowledge, I will head to those comments and post. “Please restore all the comments that were posted here on July 29, 2013 that did not violate any Bubblews Rules or TOS. Also, please restore all comments made on June 30, 2013, inquiring  about the deleted comments of June 29, 2013.”  If you do not see these words there, you will know that they too were deleted and then you ask yourself this question. Is Big Brother Alive and Well on Bubblews?

Edited to Add: I could not add those words as promised, because now the entire Bubble is gone. I guess why stop with deleting only comments from one day when you can delete the entire Bubble and all of the comments. Maybe Big Brother is even bigger than imagined on Bubblews.

Originally published on FullofKnowledge on June 30, 2013. Also published on Bubblews on June 30, 2013.

I deleted all of my content from FullofKnowledge. However, this piece disappeared from Bubblews when my first account on that site vanished without explanation.Note 1: Edited for several sentences to provide more cohesive sentence structure.Note 2: Has Big Brother continued to appear on Bubblews, censoring, scrubbing and sanitizing bubblers accounts, posts and comments. If so, just how big is Big Brother on Bubblews?

Gentle readers, let me ask all of you this question. Is Bubblews a scam or legit site?

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