June 2012
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brokentops-deactivated20120725 asked: what are you going to do with this site now?
Jun 28th
May 2012
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May 18th
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Student Senate & the Administration Talk To...
Missed yesterday’s Student Senate meeting on moderating ObieTalk. If you went and have thoughts about it you should send your comments in.
May 8th
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CornellHub (not Cornell), an independent student...
http://cornellhub.com/directions/ , scroll down to “A few simple, common-sense rules you must abide by”
May 4th
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My OCDC Moderated Discussion Notes
I apologize if these notes aren’t complete or ordered well. I decided a ways into the conversation that I should post information on how the discussion went on here. OCDC is willing to send you their minutes as well if you just ask. Also, if I’ve posted anything that you or someone you know has said that you feel was misrepresented or don’t feel okay with having online, let me...
May 4th
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oberlin-college asked: Just a heads-up: there is an Oberlin College Dialogue Center moderated discussion on Obie Talk taking place on Friday, May 4th at 12:15pm in West Lecture Hall. We encourage all to attend.
May 2nd
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queer yr mind: A serious and personal note about... →
petitandrogyne: So my cousin just gave me a code to get back onto ObieTalk. Some of you may remember me mentioning before that I’ve gone through some anonymous shit-talking online in the past that really fucked with my head. Yeah, well, the website where that happened was ObieTalk. I’m not mad at my cousin,… Thank you for sharing this. I hope you don’t mind me reblogging it. The...
May 1st
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But the devil will find work for idle hands to do:... →
urocyon-littoralis: I mean. It always is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but why now? Why didn’t shit get piled on it three years ago when it started? It’s gone very ‘downhill’ in the last year, I suppose—as someone who regularly goes there to find funny stuff, I know that—but why has everyone centered around…
May 1st
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The Oberlin Inquirer: Query 1: Obietalk →
oberlininquirer: Last week, Dean of Students Eric Estes and Vice President for Communications Ben Jones have met with Will Adams Keane, the creator and administrator of Obietalk, the anonymous online forum. They agreed upon implementing a system to monitor the content posted on Obietalk. 1- Does this not further…
May 1st
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graph praxis: am i correct in saying that while... →
zincfingers: am i correct in saying that while oberlin confessional was teeming with assholes, obietalk quickly became a whole lot worse? it does seem like ocon was ultimately tamer/less rife with racial slurs but then again i never saw the worst of either, so. i used to be really into the idea of keeping…
May 1st
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ephemera: On ObieTalk →
jwisser: I will—I hope—make this one post and only this one post regarding Ruby Turok-Squire’s recent blog post about ObieTalk. There’s absolutely an issue worth talking about here, and I’m pleased that there’s once again a discussion happening about this subject, but I think Ruby is fundamentally…
May 1st
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The Oberlin Review: Letter to the Editors from... →
From the week of April 20, 2012. The Administration speaks up.
May 1st
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ObieTalk Monitoring System to be Instituted in... →
Many are asking if this is enough. Perhaps it’s too little, too late and the site should simply be taken down. Or maybe it’s actually a step in the right direction. What are your thoughts?
May 1st
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“Not too long ago in “equal Oberlin,” anonymous posters on the online forum...”
– http://oberlinreview.org/article/afrikana-community-responds-bigotry/
May 1st
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One Student's Take on ObieTalk →
The hotly debated Oberlin Blog post by Ruby Turok-Squire ‘16.
May 1st
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May 1st