tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post5062943475721273908..comments2024-01-16T01:42:41.699+11:00Comments on Tune into Radio Carly: The problems with The Mighty, and my suggestions for improvement.Carly Findlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01368145710452826385noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post-84371225843957166392016-02-03T09:46:44.965+11:002016-02-03T09:46:44.965+11:00Hello, I followed a link here when I saw the title...Hello, I followed a link here when I saw the title to your post. I followed The Mighty for a while last year and unfollowed them after a few months. I couldn't articulate my feelings about it, but I found your post put those feelings into words for me. So just wanted to thank you for that.Tania Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05119051531868477481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post-44862913860132433032016-01-05T08:40:06.818+11:002016-01-05T08:40:06.818+11:00They practice temperamental discrimination. Sangui...They practice temperamental discrimination. Sanguine, phlegmatic, and cholerics' perspectives are real too. Not every disabled person or ally is melancholic, so The Mighty should not make it seem that way.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616282351291824392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post-32644400259373257512015-12-29T07:33:23.548+11:002015-12-29T07:33:23.548+11:00Thanks for this! I have a website, and I sometimes...Thanks for this! I have a website, and I sometimes share posts from The Mighty. I am troubled that they do not pay their writers, though it's probably worth noting that places like Huff-Po use a similar model. I have a son with learning disabilities, and I have mental illness-obsessive compulsive disorder with some other anxiety and panic disorder elements thrown in. I think some of the pieces written for and by people with mental illnesses have been really well done. It's almost as if the site is two different sites. Perhaps it would be better if the parenting pieces became their own related, but distinct entity-Mighty Parents, perhaps? It reminds me of some of the conversations around Autism Speaks-which is really an organization advocating a specific agenda related to the needs of parents rather than those of people with autism, from what I've read (I hasten to add this is all based on my reading of articles and nothing more). At any rate, thank you for this excellent, thoughtful piece. I'm off to read more of the other posts you suggested to learn more. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post-30649951164511067852015-12-29T00:14:08.930+11:002015-12-29T00:14:08.930+11:00I think you make some great points here Carly, but...I think you make some great points here Carly, but I also think that The Mighty is servicing the community when no one else is even trying. While they publish a LOT of clickbait they are also raising awareness. To get people to follow them, and thereby read yours and other peoples important stories, they have to get the attention of viewers. It's hard as an editor to decide to publish something that people won't relate to in a world where social media and news delivery sites are popping up every day.Megan Killionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01865449763919188910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post-2604428160176590022015-12-28T03:14:13.232+11:002015-12-28T03:14:13.232+11:00I just discovered The Mighty yesterday! So I thank...I just discovered The Mighty yesterday! So I thank you for a great review post about its possibilities as well as its problems, and look forward to following your links to the rest of the story.<br /><br />I have CFS. I don't get out much because it uses up too much energy. I've been disabled for 27 years, and am now officially 'retired.' It cost me my career as a research physicist at Princeton.<br /><br />I've spent the last 20 years learning to write, and the last 15 writing my first published novel. Brain fog gives me a limited amount of usable time daily, and there is life to live, too, so it took a long time to reach a satisfactory novel (and it is only the first of a trilogy). The main character is disabled, but that is, while important, not the point of the novel.<br /><br />So when I saw 80 million readers listed on The Mighty, I was wondering if writing non-fiction there would be a good way to get some additional exposure.<br /><br />Writing is a good possibility of remunerative work for SOME disabled people - but SS rules about what you can earn, and not lose benefits, do NOT accommodate the erratic nature of income from freelance writing OR fiction. I tried for years to get this concept through to SS (and it cost me quite a bit of that daily small serving of 'good time') and I got nowhere.<br /><br />Anyway, I look forward to reading more here on your blog, and on TM - and learning what I've been missing.<br /><br />In my spare time from writing Book 2.ABEhrhardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211038591900883672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720872153813357167.post-30818780391961716782015-12-25T16:47:35.571+11:002015-12-25T16:47:35.571+11:00Hope this is widely read and some useful food for ...Hope this is widely read and some useful food for thought for editors, contributors and readers of The Mighty. <br /><br />You're a good egg. Xlylyeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10660207333541969316noreply@blogger.com