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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9248965" data-attributes="member: 11">As someone who ran an award-winning website/blog for nearly 10 years on comics studies, including guest posts, roundtables, interviews, and collaborations with critics, grad students, independent scholars, and established professors, did the vast majority of editing and layout myself, and had to go back and edit previous posts - sometimes years old - to change names of people who transitioned or remove references to/add disclaimers about work or people who had proved inappropriate or toxic since first published, and so on. . . I am skeptical of Alexander's implied claim about how much work it is and time it would take to have removed/replaced the deadname and add the &quot;s&quot; to &quot;Jacquaying&quot; to previous posts.EDIT TO ADD: And in case the above was not clear, when you run a site with a big audience it is your responsibility to prioritize those kinds of changes once you deem them necessary. It is part of taking your work seriously, as Alexander very obviously does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 9248965, member: 11"] As someone who ran an award-winning website/blog for nearly 10 years on comics studies, including guest posts, roundtables, interviews, and collaborations with critics, grad students, independent scholars, and established professors, did the vast majority of editing and layout myself, and had to go back and edit previous posts - sometimes years old - to change names of people who transitioned or remove references to/add disclaimers about work or people who had proved inappropriate or toxic since first published, and so on. . . I am skeptical of Alexander's implied claim about how much work it is and time it would take to have removed/replaced the deadname and add the "s" to "Jacquaying" to previous posts. EDIT TO ADD: And in case the above was not clear, when you run a site with a big audience it is [I]your responsibility[/I] to prioritize those kinds of changes once you deem them necessary. It is part of taking your work seriously, as Alexander very obviously does. [/QUOTE]

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