I'm a very negative person, and I don't like that. I don't like certain things. I don't like seeing certain things. While creating this website, one goal I had was to create a more positive place, a place with less negativity compared to what I'm used to seeing on social media. This is very difficult for me, as I'm a negative person, so I struggle a lot to just not start ranting mid-article about everything I don't like.
I don't want my visitors to see negative things. I wish to create a website people can feel comfortable visiting because there is nothing negative in it. I think the mere act of SEEING something negative influences you negatively. I think censorship is the right way to make everyone's day a little better.
While I can control the content I write myself, things get trickier when writing about content other people wrote, taking screenshots of social media websites, or simply talking about my experience using things.
I don't feel good about it. It makes me feel frustrated that I HAVE to write words that I don't want other people to ever see in my website. I don't like to entertain the mere possibility that someone might see a thumbnail for a fraction of a second that contains something I would rather not show. I feel like I've failed to create the environment I've set out to create when this happens. And I don't like that. I really, really, REALLY don't like that. I don't like that so much, I decided to just not do that.
So here's the solution I came up with.
Instead of writing words I don't want to say, I'll just write [REDACTED] and link to this article.
This shall sure give me a peace of mind.
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