Many of you know of and are even friends with @EnigmaInitiative, who was a very active and popular blogger on the site. Debbi was also employed by the site as a community liaison officer. Her contract was abruptly terminated at the same time that the site decided to appoint its ambassadors. (By the way, has anyone seen them? If not, then I guess it's because they're too busy being ambassadorial!)
Debbi has written a book, an e-book published on Amazon. It's a cracking though somewhat harrowing book to read; I read a near-final draft before it was published.
Here's the blurb of the book:
"Spend enough time in psychiatric wards, you learn a thing or two about survival. For Debbi, life has been an endless cycle of navigating complex trauma with unmatched Resilience. But when she gets banned from her online community for publicly calling the CEO a loser, she accidentally enters a high-stakes corporate war. Set against the chaotic backdrop of toxic tech culture and mental health recovery, this tumultuous memoir is a raw and inspiring look at what happens when you finally break out of your chrysalis. Follow one woman’s journey as she conquers her past and proudly earns her therapist-approved moniker of Post-Traumatic Stress Queen."
For more details, please search for the author, Deborah Robert, and the title of the book, Resilience: My Journey from Trauma to Triumph.
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Despite all she's been through, our Post-Traumatic Stress Queen is such an awesome and fun person. It's so great that she's back in the blogs.
It is great she's back blogging.
I have read Resilience and loved it! It is real and informative too.
Hugs!!
It's a good even if not a happy read.
It’s great to see her make an appearance on her blog. I’ve missed her so much!
It is great she's back. You can't keep a good woman down!
Thank you for this post. Being on this site is definitely a roller coaster ride lol I will check out the book, sounds very interesting!
It's a very interesting book.
I am an AMBASSADOR and have been for many years. I help lots of people with questions they have about the site, and also I give advice when asked. We do lots of things here or at least I can say I do. The site asked me to be an ambassador many years ago because they thought I was a popular member.
It's a shame that she lost her job due to being honest. I hope all is well with her and she is enjoying life.
I hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend my friend.
You are a fantastic ambassador. I was referring to the recently appointed ambassadors who only do cam.
@spunkycumfun We all know those two jokers. Pathetic.
@shydivorced2 They are a joke. They've done nothing of substance as ambassadors. Clearly they're just on the make.
Good to learn she is still around and doing well.
She's doing well and she may make a surprise visit here.
A well-deserved and heartfelt announcement to the Community about someone who was a wonderful person and a role model here, thank you S.
You'd think the site would want members to know about one of their former colleague's book!
@spunkycumfun yes... well... no comments...
After purgatory and denial, this blog post has eventually been approved after three days!
Well done S
@SiteSupport This blog post has seemingly gone into purgatory, neither approved nor denied. I submitted the post yesterday, and many other blog posts submitted afterwards have been approved.
As far as I'm aware, the blog post doesn't breach the site's terms of use. I hope you can approve this post very soon.
Per our Community Guidelines, content that references fees, pricing, or payment in exchange for products or services is considered solicitation, which is not permitted on the platform.
This also applies to external links directing members to websites where an individual can purchase products or services that financially benefit the individual promoting them. Because the post includes an external link to a book for purchase, it falls under this restriction and cannot be approved in its current form.
You may want to revise the post and remove the sales-related content and external purchasing link before resubmitting it for review.
@SiteSupport There's no reference to a price or fee in this post.
I am not asking anyone to purchase a product.
There was a very similar blog post providing the same link that the site allowed.
I'm just pimping a book written by a former employee of the site. It's pathetic.
I will revise the post.
@SiteSupport As suggested, I've removed the link but the post still got denied.
I hope my post will be approved. It's taken three days to get so far nowhere with this post.
@spunkycumfun it's up now!
@spunkycumfun PS - The usual inconsistent shambles.
@stonnerking I even scheduled this to be released a day after submission to give the site time to review it. It took the site three days to approve the post.
A very similar post, with an Amazon link, was submitted by another blogger and was approved.
@stonnerking The post has now been denied after being approved!
@SiteSupport This post was approved and now is denied. I didn't edit the post after it was approved.
This is becoming a fiasco. Please can you approve the post.
@spunkycumfun Even after I got the alert about the post (about 90 minutes ago), it STILL wasn't visible until very recently.
@CleavageFan4U The exact same post got approved (eventually after over two days in purgatory), denied twice, and then approved again!
@OddsAgainst I don't the site would find if it looked!
@spunkycumfun We apologize for the confusion and delay. We followed up with our Content Review team regarding the inconsistency in the approval of your post. The post has now been approved and should be visible. We appreciate your patience while we worked to address this.
@spunkycumfun I've said it before, they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
@SiteSupport Thanks.
I sent Site Support an email about this post earlier today, which now can be ignored.
@spunkycumfun We understand your point, and we appreciate your willingness to revise the post.
The concern is not necessarily whether the post itself mentions a specific price or directly asks members to make a purchase. The issue is the external link directing members to a website where the promoted book can be purchased, which can financially benefit the individual promoting the book.
Under our guidelines, directing members to an external website where they can purchase a product or service that financially benefits the person promoting it is considered solicitation. This is why the link falls under the same restriction as other sales-related content.
We understand that similar content may have appeared on the site previously. However, that does not change the current guidelines or mean that previously approved content establishes an exception to those guidelines.
@EnigmaInitiative Hi Debbie, it’s great to see you back in Community! Our apologies for the denial of the link to your book. While we don’t make the rules, we are responsible for enforcing them. We understand this may have been frustrating, and we appreciate your understanding. We hope you’re doing well and are glad to hear from you.
@SiteSupport I understand why my post wasn't initially approved. Thanks for approving the post.
@spunkycumfun At least they didn't drop your community rating level down to 6 or something in revenge. (I'm back up to 7.2 after a post asking what happened)
@mwants269 There's an irony with your upped level!
@spunkycumfun I thought it might be punishment for suggesting another way to get in touch.