Some housekeeping notes:
- The domain is now permanently changed to StantonBlog.com. It should redirect automatically, so just set your bookmarks accordingly.
- Commenting will be slightly different, so please feel free to test and post your feedback on the “Need Help?” tab.
- You may sign up for an account to make your posting easier, or you may comment without creating an account. It’s up to you.
- I strongly suggest choosing a “pen name” if you prefer to post anonymously in order to facilitate more meaningful conversations. They can be difficult to follow when there are dozens of people named “Anonymous.” 🙂
- “Popular Posts” and individual page counts for articles will be reset to zero. I’m looking into some options for transcribing those counts directly into the new database, but this may or may not happen. If it does, it might take awhile, because it will be very time intensive.
Thank you for your readership, and for those who are able to contribute financially to this project. The impact this blog has had in people’s lives is inspiring.
God bless!
P.s. – This post will eventually be deleted. If you have technical questions about the new site, please comment on the “Need Help?” tab in the menu.
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Excellent! Any chance of getting away fromGoogle? They are an even worse threat than Stanton. They steal data, spy on users, use secret algorithms, and suppress information they don’t like. I’d highly recommend all readers never use the Google search engine again. Swisscows.com is far better. It doesn’t steal user data, and it blocks filth, doing a job that should have been done 26 years ago, in 1993, when the internet was invented. To the indoctrinated mindless drones who aren’t Christian, who believe liberty is doing whatever you feel like doing, you are abusing the Spirit of the Constitution, which… Read more »
Working on getting away from Google, but it's harder than it sounds. Honestly, Google's search is still the best overall, except for ideological or political searches (which is important when it comes to trust, but not the entirety of my search queries on a given day). When it comes to ideology, they are skewed big-time to the left. I have my family's devices set to use StartPage.com by default, because they license Google's search results, but strip out cookies and personally identifying info. I also use Brave as my default browser, which is code-wise similar to Chrome but with far… Read more »
See a lot of you on there Kevin.
On where? Facebook, or Google? And if you're seeing me, you're there too. Lol
Does that mean you're not keeping Merie Weiss.com if you're eventually going to be Stantonblog.com?
Both will go to the final destination. I'll just redirect them all to the right place. That's why I am using the interim domain of MerieWeiss.com. Once Google re-indexes the site on that domain, which I control, then I can completely control the redirection of every page. As it stands right now, I can't redirect http://www.stantonblog.com to stantonblog.com as accurately as I'd like.
Kind of a technical explanation, but hopefully that makes some sense. 🙂
Anyone here have graphic design skills you want to put to good use to come up with a cool logo for the new site?
This is what I have so far—but this is because I'm a writer. It's mostly words! 🙂 If someone wants to take a crack at some other options, I'd be happy to consider them in the new site.
I think it looks great!
Kevin, new site looks great How about some knuckles knocking on a door as well.
Might make a good logo! Lol
There's some discussion on what would be the best URL for the new site. I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts on that, and why.
StantonBlog.com vs. MerieWeiss.com vs. something else?
MerieWeissIsStanton.com
TheCultofMerieWeiss.com
TheCultofStanton.com
ExposingStanton.com
realityvsstanton.com
Something to consider is the fact that the SCOC thinks of Spring Valley as the 'mother church' because that is where Merie started and ran things.
ExposingMerieWeissCofC.com
Exposing should be somewhere in it.
All good ideas about the blog. I'll have to decide sometime soon. 🙂
Kevin if you are thinking of ExposingStanton, I would vote for ExposingMerieWeiss. Maybe a poll? 😀
Everyone has offered some great suggestions for the new blog URL. There are a lot of factors to consider, including audience (those who were around decades ago vs. teens and younger members), consistency across all platforms (yes, I'll be announcing another platform when the time is right), and purpose (reaching those still in vs. reaching those who have long left. I'm going to proceed as originally planned with MerieWeiss.com being the interim URL, with the final destination as StantonBlog.com. But I've already purchased StantonExposed.com and might purchase more to redirect to the site as shortcuts or special-purpose URLs. For instance,… Read more »
Here's my newest blog logo…so far. 🙂
Looks great!!!
Thanks. It might change again before I launch. That's just how I roll. 🙂
Kevin, I like it!!
I like how love is emphasized and incorporated in the logo. It's a very effective way to make convincing arguments to SCOC members –They need no help with the law dept arguments.
So close to launching the new site! Thanks for your patience. I think sometime Wednesday it will happen.
Just another plug (unsolicited by the way), to sign up on Patreon to support Kevin in this time consuming endeavor. Click on the red button above "Page Views" using the Web Page view on this site. If privacy is an issue use your profile settings in Patreon to make your pledges private. (Scroll down and unclick the box that says 'my pledges are publicly visible'. Kevin has 5 patrons now who are donating a total of $78 per month.
Anon 5:47 – Thank you. I'll do this regardless. But it is encouraging to see people sign up. I'll let Patreon members know some of the inside scoop on what's going on.
Here is an example of a comment made with an account. Signing up for an account is entirely optional. It will improve your user experience by making it easier to manage your comment history. The little photo icon will only be filled in if your email is associated with a Gravatar. You can create a Gravatar here.
Trying for half an hour to figure out avatar
Sorry, I’ll do an FAQ once the kinks are worked out. I think if you’ve signed up for the account here, you can just upload your pic and avoid the Gravatar.org signup. Let me know if that works. And thank you all for being a testing crew! 🙂
Here is an example of a comment made from a personal email address that doesn’t have a Gravatar (photo) associated with it on Gravatar.org. The photo icon will be a “mystery person.”
If you intend to post anonymously, I suggest using a pen name in the Name field so we can all follow the conversation. Otherwise, we have dozens of people named “Anonymous.”
Note that you can now upvote and downvote comments, and sort them by newest, oldest, or most voted. This gives you some ability to filter what you want to respond to a little more easily.
You can also edit your comments to fix typos now…so no need to delete and repost! 🙂
So much stuff!! Looks awesome!!
Thanks! I’m still working on some bugs. For instance pages aren’t displaying comments, only blog posts. 🙂 So I’m still working on stuff, but glad you like it!
I also noticed that the photo from the profile was too big so I reverted to using the Gravatar method. The best way to have your photo attached to your comment is to go to gravatar.org and sign up for a free account. Gravatar is owned by WordPress.com, and allows you to manage photos that you can associate with different email addresses. Sorry for this extra step, I might find better solutions and if so I’ll let everyone know.
Go through there instead of in the account?
Actually, it looks like it is working now! It took your profile photo you uploaded and turned it into an avatar. That’s how I was expecting it to work, but at first it was oversize.
Trying my own avatar. It looked blurry in the preview.
Did you delete it, or did it not show up at all? I don’t see an avatar for you. And did you use gravatar.org, or the native profile photo on this site? Thanks for the feedback…I need all I can get!
Site looks good
Thanks. I have a few bugs to work out and some features to add. It just takes time. Thanks for everyone’s patience!
Hey all, curious to know if anybody here attended the phoenix sect? When DS taught there?
Sorry, I changed the name to initials. I realize this is sometimes a tough judgment call, but I want to err on the side of not making these pages personal, as much as possible.
And I do know there have been commenters here who were from Phoenix. I visited the Phoenix
congregation one time during that era.
Grew up in that church, the leadership there were all child abusing monsters, and the ones that saw looked the other way. MD wife of PD used to beat my sister for being to slow to scramble up on to a couch that was taller than she was, and her daughter was so abusive as our babysitter i quite literally tried to stab her when I was 8. Another disgusting ball of lard of a man named SS (funny coincidence) would physically beat his son JS black and blue. Not exaggerating. Kid carries a double barrel sawn off everywhere he… Read more »
Just found this comment in the queue for approval, sorry I missed it. I’m approving it for the sake of conversation. Obviously, I can’t verify any of this information, but I have heard enough about some of the Phoenix church’s dysfunction to suspect that there’s some truth to it. My heart breaks for any kids who had to deal with physical, emotional, or God forbid, sexual abuse.
Just know that there is a God in heaven who loves you like no one on earth ever did, or ever could. <3
Very sorry about your loss of innocence, Free Thinker. I am a fan of severe penalties for child molesters. Also, there is a great book, called Sexual Sabotage, which details how the explosion of sexual debauchery, including child molestation happened. https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Sabotage-Scientist-Unleashed-Corruption/dp/1935071858. I can empathize with your pain, as no child should have to go through that. Unfortunately, our nation was warned in 1969, that if we legalized pornography, children would be molested and murdered far more than ever before. That has happened. And you were an unfortunate and innocent victim of this depraved death culture. But, you don’t have to… Read more »
Because it is important for some people reading this blog to remain totally anonymous, even to Kevin, I am going to explain how to comment with complete anonymity. Click ‘Join the Discussion’ and give yourself a pen-name and make up an email. When you want to post a comment just click ‘Join the Discussion’ and your information should populate with your pen-name and made-up email address. Isn’t it sad this type of anonymity is so important. Craig knows first hand how the church can withdraw even when you’re considered a nonmember.
Thank you. I deeply respect the need for anonymity, even though I strongly wish it wasn’t necessary.
Haven’t had time to diagnose the problem with commenting on “Pages” (in the top menu) vs. “Blog Posts” in the sidebar. For now, use the “Welcome” blog post to comment on issues you’re seeing. When I get the pages commenting fixed, I’ll delete this post.
ANONYMITY: For anyone concerned that entering your email in the Guest comment field could expose your identity to me on the back end, several have discovered that you can enter a fake email there. It is a required field in the software I’m using, and I can’t change that, but feel free to use “anon@stantonblog.com” or any other made up email. PINNING THIS POST: I’ll be out of Internet range for a few days, but I’ll will look into appending a short reminder about the above right next to the comment box. BETTER FUNCTIONALITY: I do want to note, however,… Read more »
FYI, just a housekeeping note about the number of comments. The actual number of comments is at least 1,000 to 1,500 higher than the sidebar counter. That’s because Google deleted all comments that had been authenticated via Google+ when they got rid of that service. When I first moved the blog over to this new platform, I had adjusted the count by hand in the code, but an automatic software update deleted that modification. I’m just going to leave it; it’s not worth the extra custom coding to make it more accurate. 🙂
Posting anonymously, even to me as the site admin, is easy to do. Just register using a fictitious name and email address. You could also post as a Guest by doing the same, but you lose out on some features that only work when you are logged in (thumbs up/down, editing your post after you publish it, etc.). It bears repeating that I think it’s best to converse openly and transparently, but some have very good reasons for not doing so yet (family still in the sect who could face social retribution, etc.). I think the practice of anonymous posters… Read more »