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14 Year old Dies at THAYER LEARNING CENTER
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-03-27 02:56:00, terrified_mother wrote:
"This evening I Yahoo searched Thayer, what I found is troubling. The first 2 pages of site results are owned by the Bundys. A few newspaper articles show up at around the 100 hit marker. The first hit for the Fornits Forum is at 184 and it dumps you at the search page. The second hit for Fornits is at 239 and it dumps you into the Straight Inc topic titled Candace's Law dated 2001-12-24. I searched past the 500 marker on Yahoo and did not see a hit for http://www.ISACCORP.COM. If anyone has a suggestion as to how one might go about getting the truth on top of the pile I'd like to hear it."
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For a start, use a better search engine. A Google on "thayer learning center" brings up ezboard at 2, nospank at 3, Fornits at 5, Kansas City Star at 6, National Youth Rights Association at 8, the8thstep at 11, ISAC at 18, and HEAL at 23.
I have noticed that search engines seem to pay a lot of attention to the contents of the title bar and headings. One thing Ginger might do if she has got the time and inclination is put the topic in the title bar and sub topic in heading tags. My bet is it will make the relevant Fornits posts a lot more findable.
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2005-03-27 04:39:00, Anonymous wrote:
One thing Ginger might do if she has got the time and inclination is put the topic in the title bar and sub topic in heading tags. My bet is it will make the relevant Fornits posts a lot more findable.
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That's a really good idea! I don't know if I can pull it off easily or not. I'll just have to go and see how complicated it will be to grab that data before building the page header. If I remember right, I took a stab at it once and found it to be non-trivial. But maybe I've learned a trick or two in the mean time.
Here's another idea. Please feel free to copy and paste any and all content that you find relavent all over the net w/ links back (to here, to ISAC to one of the lists of Maia Szalavitz's writings or to whatever you want to promote)
And you're right about the search engines. I quit using Yahoo years ago. As soon as they started charging for guaranteed listings, the signal/noise ratio just started to hit the skids.
But then, I think it reflects on the mentality of someone who would buy into the troubled parent industry. I think you have to want to be sold, or be predisposed to buy into bullshit.
Reminds me of the bad old days when I was so desperate for a paycheck that I spent my days and evenings trying to sell people pre-need funeral arrangements. It was never about good taste or even common decency. There's no good way to call up a stranger and say "Hey, Mr. Jones, would you like to put down that pork chop and plan your funeral right now?" It's just a numbers game and, believe it or not, about 1/100 will say "Sure, why not?" regardless of what you're selling.
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
--Thomas Paine
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Antigen:
It was right there all the time! It's a little inelegant, as I just ditched the page title entirely (overly long titles make google suspicious) so, if we've got a topic, it's there, otherwise it's not.
Thanks! Oh, if you have any more bright ideas, please send email or post to the "Web Forum Hosting" forum, as I may or may not find it in a discussion thread.
Thanks again!
A student burst into his office. "Professor Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me." To which Stigler replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award."
--Professor Stigler
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Anonymous:
I just wanted to make sure no one has forgotten what a terrible place Thayer is. The physical abuse and the mental abuse which is so much worse. Several children have nightmares in the middle of the night wake up crying and standing at attention in their sleep. What horrible people could possibly do this to a child and feel good about themselves. I guess the Bundy's, they've made a living at it.
DON'T FORGET ROBERTO REYES !!!!
REST IN PEACE AND GODD BLESS
Mrs. Doubtfire:
I have to admit I too am stunned... as soon as Ginger gave Thayer a dedicated site, everyone disappeared. The Bundy's must be thrilled; hell, no wonder people like that win at terrorizing our children.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are ignorance and apathy. Apparently it has reached epidemic proportions here.
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