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VieBleu ago

Can we sticky this somehow? There are a lot of people coming to the site - they need a concise write up like this at the top, not our deep rabbit hole stuff!!

MODS???!!!

kingkongwaswrong ago

guys please remember mods arent all seeing all knowing people and infact because they are so busy vetting new posts and flairing things and having meta discussions, they dont often have time to read the most interesting stuff - because it's not a concern to anyone !

If you want to get our attention please use the @ handle like this @50hurtz @viebleu to give us a notification so we can see what you're trying to say :)

VieBleu ago

Thank you. I have found the mods to be very responsive actually.
Now I have to ask something stupid, but once I understand, I'll put it in the Skillz post under which people have been using and finding usefull for learning to archive just today. When you say use @viebleu, what do you mean? Put it at the top of a comment? IM you?

kingkongwaswrong ago

no just put an @ in front of the users name in a comment or post. So if i just go @viebleu this will appear in your 'comment mentions' in your inbox. That way even if i posted it somewhere totally random, you would still get a notification.

VieBleu ago

@kingkongwaswrong

so just do it like this?

kingkongwaswrong ago

yep :)

Reading ago

@kingkongwaswrong Came across this and want to share. Haven't seen it in the conversation thread- delete it if someone already mentioned this.

This year in VA more children have been reported missing than in the entire state of Texas. Visit their site: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children - www.missingkids.com.

As of last night, there are more than 40 missing children ages 13 to 17, an average of 5 per day for Dec!! November was a busy month as well, I quit counting at 100. Noting that most of them are Teenagers between the ages of 12- 17. Some younger but the most popular age seems to be17.

I am extremely bothered by this and am going to continue to look into this. Can all of these children be runaways? I think "No". Why is VA at the top of the list? Age 17 was the most popular last month and it seems this months trend is 15 year olds.

I'm so disheartened by the possibilities of what this means but am happy to have stumbled here and know that everyone here can help me find the answers. I'm curious to see which cities, neighborhoods, schools, state/local foundations (foster care, CPS) and families are missing this many children over the last 6 weeks and why it's not in the news. Who is fighting for the children???

P.S. More boys than girls....if I am not mistaking the gender behind the names as about half of these children do not have photos.