Post Secret Archive

What happened to this promise you made? Doesn’t seem right that now you’re making a reject page.

Your promise:

First Post from uploads.

First off I want to sincerely thank those who have uploaded their secrets here. I PROMISE to post every single secret that I receive. If you take the time to upload a secret I will take the time to post every single one of them.

Hi Consuela

Thank you for pointing that out.
I didn’t know / had forgotten about that.

First off, that was written by someone else, who I took over running the site from. It was also written a year and a half ago when it was probably possible to put every single submission.

At the moment, I received over 30 new submissions a day. Some of them are just totally unreadable (see the rejects website and you will see), some are ones that have already been published (one person has submitted the same secret over 15 times) and some are just not secrets at all, but photos of people (thats it, just photos!).

So I think Jeff, who posted the promise you mentioned, was being a little naive, or at least had no idea how popular the site would become.

My last point, is that putting up poor work alongside some of the really beautiful and touching secrets in many ways devalues them.

All that said, I put up the rejects website because I really do feel, just as Jeff, that everyone should be heard, and that this subsite is an outlet for them. And bear in mind I totally get that my idea of good and bad is not the same as everyone’s so secrets posted to the rejects site that get good ratings will be brought in here.

So maybe “reject” is too harsh? Maybe I should have another think about what we call the site where I place the others?

Let me know, I am always keen to hear everyone’s thoughts.

Thank you

Ronan

Hi Frank,

What happened to the April 2009 posts. I keep checking here for them, but no luck. Please let me know if they will ever be posted.

Thanks~

Its states the regects are all postsecrets submitted between Jan 08 and May 09. I sent mine in between that time, and I do not see my secret here.

I am so glad I don’t.

It’s quite interesting to see the other post secrets there, although, I definitely agree that calling them “rejects” sounds quite… harsh. Maybe renaming it to something like “Post Secrets: Uncut” might be better? I don’t know, it might just be me =]
Anyway, thanks ^__^

My secret wasn’t good enough to sit alongside more beautiful ones? Well, I guess that sort of figures, then, doesn’t it? I don’t think that something that may be deeply personal and painful should be left to public vote to decide whether it’s worthy of being by other secrets that are deemed better. I would say this regardless of whether my secret had been one of the rejected ones.

I came to this site and shared because I believed in the promise. I guess that it doesn’t matter whether I stop coming or not, as there won’t be anyone to miss me. I’m glad that you added the second site, but disappointed that some of the more touching secrets I’ve seen have been relegated to second class.

This is not my website to run, of course, and I understand your reasoning. I just wanted to let you know that reading this on a night when I’m feeling really down already sort of didn’t help.

Good luck running the site.

I also fail to see any of my secrets anywhere

I havent seen any of my secrets. That doesnt suprise me though Lol.
I think rejects is kinda..um..harsh.
I suggest a name change.

Can we please have some new secrets up???

I have looked through this whole site and do not see either of my secrets….

So is this website affiliated with Frank’s postsecret.blogspot.com or is it started by another group of individuals? Who runs this website?

i think so many of these secrets on here are sad and if i would have been on this website about a week ago mine would be too, but ive realized that I deserve to be happy and so do the rest of you im sorry that your hurt the way you are but life is meant to knock you down keep getting back up and never give up when someones weighing on your heart let them go as hard as it is you have to let them go, you deserve to be happy so stand on your own feet find your true friends please yourself be with who makes you smile let the people that continue to say things true or not let them talk and dont let em say you aint beautiful start your quest to happiness right now its not too late.

FIRST OF ALL, wayyy to copy the real POST SECRET. all of you posting on here, why not send your secrets to the original? at least Frank respects them. SECONDLY, people send you in secrets because it makes them feel better, they want to share, they want to know someone out there knows how they feel and sympathizes. By creating a “reject” website you are telling them they are exactly that… rejects. Who knows how many people you are hurting this way? Why create a reject website at all? Why not just state that you do not have the time to put all the secrets on your original website? You are making people’s feelings into a game where other people can vote on how important they are, pretty stupid!

Some one posted an unauthorized picture of me along with a “secret”
I want it removed immediately, yet there is no way to contact the site administrator!!
WHO RUNS THIS SITE?????!!!!!