Saturday, May 17, 2003
possible future model for bn
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58856,00.htmlComment management
IF I had a blog which anyone read and commented upon, I would edit the comments. A newspaper doesn't publish every letter they get nor do they publish every article which crosses the editor's desk. If I don't want litter on my blog, I'd toss it out. (That is, IF I had one they read...
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I notice that as a blog submerges under newer ones, the comments tend to stop, and if they don't they aren't responded to, so they aren't being read. I see also that it is an empiric truth that after about the third or fourth comment the comments tend to be a micturition contest if they are from the same people. Maybe a CAP on the number of comments? If you want to continue commenting on an older blog, email the author, get a personal dialogue going. If it's abusive, address that via the ISP.
And maybe a section called "Critiques/Whining/B^*#ching" where the flamers can sit around and blow razzberries about others and be exempt from getting onto the "top blog parade", just exempt it. Their bucks would still support the site but their pollution,er,free discourse would be limited and they could just cut loose?Heck, anyone could duck in and vent and rant, then duck back up into the rest of the site and produce some good stuff.Sort like a "blogema", or "blogative".
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Where did it go?
I signed up as a new "blog" today and thought I attached a "post." However when I went back to look I was there as a blog and the name of my post was there . . . but no article(?) I went back in to "write" and was going to do a new post, except that option was not there (of course it seems it never got my first post?).
What did I do wrong and how do I get my text under my post name?
T. Michael Barclay's Asylum Earth - Posted under the title "School Daze" - in Humor - 5/15/03
Help
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN TOWN SQUARE
DEAR BN STAFF
Ya' know how on the front page of BN you can click on "See more in new Posts" and then you get a page of new posts and at the bottom, there are more pages of new posts?
Well, would it be possible to do that with the comments page too? Right now there is only one page of the newest comments. I know I can check my own comments from the write page, but I think many people like looking over all the comments. I've gotten turned on to many blogs that way.
Something to think about for your multitude of future plans. Thanks!
Saturday, May 10, 2003
DEAR BN STAFF
I don't remember if I need to pay you each month to stay on, or is that taken out of my CC each month automatically until I cancel, and if it is not taken out automatically do you send me a reminder by email to make sure I don't forget?
Friday, May 9, 2003
DEAR BN STAFF
Ever thought about the possibility of publishing a book with our blogs in it? The blogging market is always growing and people would probably take a big interest in it. Imagine how good for business it would be...
Chris
Thursday, May 8, 2003
Black/white men released from prison
I will post about the infamous industrial prison complex and how the former illinois Gov opened the doors to the entire death row population and declared a moratorium.
I will discuss how police brutality,corruption, racism, and prosceutorial misconduct led to the incarceration and release of many innocent black men a few hispanics and a few others over the last 2 yrs. This is incomprehensible in a society and judiciary system which holds that all people can get a fair trial in this USA.
Hold on to your seats.
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
where did my post go?
For some reason I cannot fathom, my latest posting, called "real tantra", did not show up as part of my postings under kamalaz corner, which is where I'm suppposed to post my new blogs, right? Instead, the new post went somewhere else, called "KAMALA". Now, where the heck IS that supposed to be?
Monday, May 5, 2003
rank question
I read this here a week or so ago: "This term means that no matter how often you read a blog, you are only counted once when the rankings are calculated. The purpose is to ensure fair rankings by allowing each person to only "vote" once." Does this mean that a reader is counted only once per 24 hours? So if I read a blog twice in one day, it still counts as only one hit? And is that true for figuring both rankings and revenues? Thanks!
I Keep Trying to Add New Blogs....
HELP! I go to the "write a new blog" and it won't accept my address!! This is the 4th day in a row ...how the hell am I supposed to keep writing if it wont accept the material? Is there tech-support here? I want to add a new blog to my paqe; I go th "Write"; it asks me for name, address, subject, then treats it like someone trying to add a new blog using my address!!!
HELP HELP HELP---NOW!
