Ron, Chris Bluhm at AOTA asked me to post this response to your comments about the missing blog postings.
Chuck Willmarth Director, State Affairs AOTA ************************ Mr. Carson, AOTA does not filer comments because of a member's perspective or point of view. As long as the terms of service are adhered to, which most commonly prohibit things like profanity or marketing, posts should appear on the site. A couple of weeks ago, national office staff needed to install a new spam filter because the site has been hit by a series of spam attacks. The new software uses an algorithm looking at things like, repeated posts from the same IP address, keywords and other predictive tools and will hold emails that it deems to have a "high spam score" in the filter for approval before release. In investigating your problem, we found one post from last Wednesday that was caught by the filter and will be "released" today. Your problem did identify a lapse in our procedures in that e-mails with a particularly high spam score are now being auto-deleted within two days, but we were only checking the filter weekly, as had been appropriate in the past. We will continue to work on the filter settings and are planning to make some additional changes to try and have posts that are within OT Connections "terms of service" flow to the site without being held up by our security measures. This is still new platform for us and we continue to work on fixing some of the "bugs". We ask that anyone who is experiencing difficulty with OT Connections to just give us a call, toll free at 1-800- 729-2682 and either ask for Sam Gonzales, or if you can't reach Sam please don't hesitate to call and ask for me directly. Chris Bluhm Chief Operating Officer The American Occupational Therapy Association -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Carson Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OTlist] AOTA Screening Bloggers Comments? Hello All: On two different and recent occasions, my comments on the AOTA president's blog concerning the recent branding campaign were not posted. While I have no way of knowing who or even if someone is censoring my comments, it certainly appears to be the case. Given that AOTA is member supported organization is it acceptable for AOTA to censor members' messages, even if they are negative and non-supporting? You can read the AOTA President's blog here: http://tinyurl.com/dka9fm Thanks, Ron ~~~ Ron Carson MHS, OT www.OTnow.com -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
