As the person who originally made the posts, she said, “it seemed natural to make the decision.” Despite its appearance, she said, Boing Boing is really a collective where various contributors act independently: “None of us confer. We don’t have specific beats. There is no process in which posts are approved.”

But the Boing Boing readership certainly viewed it as an act taken on behalf of the Web site. Was Boing Boing deceiving its loyal audience by silently deleting the material, even if no one noticed the absences until a year later? What does it even mean to deceive an audience when it comes to a catalog of one’s personal writings? And does popularity convey different responsibilities to the people who produce a Web site?

The twist, of course, is that for nearly everyone who lives with what the Internet says about them, being unpublished would seem a dream come true. Those photographs from the frat party can be unpublished? Who knew? The essay to the Mickey Mouse Fan Club, too?

Ms. Blue, however, is not one to be mortified by what she sees of herself online. She cultivates an online personality on her blog, which is fairly pornographic, and she is in the process of trademarking her name. She credits her blog with getting her a column in a well-known newspaper and giving her a vital outlet for her thoughts and feelings.

In an interview, she said that she learned of the removals only when a reader of her blog noticed that the links to Boing Boing had gone dead. “I went to the site and searched, and, oh, my God, they were all gone.”

“The idea of someone unpublishing you is horrifying,” she said, casting the action as violating the informal “best practices” that have developed around blogging. “That is why this is a bigger issue than someone versus someone. Really, it is between Boing Boing and the world.”

Image Xeni Jardin, top, a blogger on the BoingBoing Web site, seems to have struck a nerve by removing her posts about Violet Blue, above. Credit... Scott Beale/Laughing Squid

As for the someone-versus-someone part of the story, Ms. Blue said she was once very close with Ms. Jardin but did not know what might have happened personally or professionally last year to cause such a breach.