After a quite distressing response from my group over social, I felt that I had to make a few minor adjustments to some of my blog posts and the final evaluation. This is because my fellow group members reacted extremely negatively to what I had said regarding my experiences working with them.
Upon looking at the original posts, I realised that a lot of the content, while truthful, was written rather aggressively and specific wording made the group appear far worse than was the reality.
Because of this, I felt like I had to change the posts so that they would appear a little more friendly towards my group and my experiences working with them, cutting out a lot of the true concerns I'd had about them and the project. However, upon doing this, I realised that my blog and evaluation were no longer accurate. As our blogs are marked based on the content we write and our truthful opinions of our experiences, I thought it was only right for me to put what I had initially written back in, albeit in a much less aggressive manner, also adding in areas where I admitted that certain problems came down to me and my own short-comings. This made me realise that I couldn't just change the content of my blogs to fit the rest of the group's views until they were happy with it as it wouldn't be an honest representation of how I had personally experienced the project.
I had made a similar post to this one stating that I owed the rest of the group an apology for the aggressive nature of the blog posts and I have apologised to them. The reactions to this from my peers may no doubt have reflected badly upon me as I know that they had tweaked their own blogs in response to the first version of my evaluation. However, I have nothing against them personally and don't wish to paint them in a bad light but I wasn't going to allow my blog posts to be dictated by their own opinions and points of view instead of mine.
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