BLOG - The Blog Reborn, or, Look Before You Leap
OK. It is time to rethink a couple things about the blog.
First of all--the code (or, as I imagine it will be dubbed if I don't get it perfect immediately, "the dreaded code"). The day after I posted the first entry, I realized I'd be writing posts on numerous different topics, and that they won't all appeal to the same audiences. (I know, I violated writer's Rule 1: Know your audience. Hence the opening paragraph.) I hope the code will save my readers time so they don't have to read posts that wouldn't be of interest to them.
Currently, I have seventeen different codes (ugly system already):
(If you're wondering why I ignored my blog for nine months, I decided I needed this code the day after my first post--but I thought it would take about four hours to make all the changes I needed to do on the page--so I kept putting it on the back burner.)
Second, I have to impose three rules. I suppose these rules were always in effect, but three out of four comments on my first post violate the second rule, so I suppose I should say this explicitly. This is MY blog. My blog, my soapbox. I accept comments--comments can be useful. I'm not perfect--I make mistakes--comments point them out for me. Comments in and of themselves can be interesting. They may even reveal fans of mine. However,
Rule 1: Comments may not be offensive. If your comment strikes me as being needlessly vulgar, bigoted, or if it's abusive to me or another reader/commenter, it will go bye-bye. Included in this category are comments that openly advocate any philosophy I consider evil (such as communism, Nazism, militant religious fundamentalism) in a manner irrelevant to the topic at hand and/or apparently not playing Devil's advocate.
Rule 2: Comments can't be free advertising. If you want to hawk fake Viagra, your dating site, or shares of the stock CRUDQ, you aren't going to do it here.
Rule 3: If I can't understand your comment, whether it's because it's in a foreign language I don't understand or a bad imitation of English, it will go.
You, of course, have every right to express thoughts that violate these rules elsewhere--however, comments in my blog reflect on me, and I reserve the right to remove comments I don't approve of on my sole discretion. If you want to say it after I delete it, please get your own blog.
Well, I hope I haven't ticked off all my readers. On to the blogging.
First of all--the code (or, as I imagine it will be dubbed if I don't get it perfect immediately, "the dreaded code"). The day after I posted the first entry, I realized I'd be writing posts on numerous different topics, and that they won't all appeal to the same audiences. (I know, I violated writer's Rule 1: Know your audience. Hence the opening paragraph.) I hope the code will save my readers time so they don't have to read posts that wouldn't be of interest to them.
Currently, I have seventeen different codes (ugly system already):
- BLOG - Stuff related to this blog itself
- CAT - Cute cat moments
- CRIT - Criticism (movies, books, whatever)
- FWD - Good, forwarded e-mails
- GEN - General
- JOKE - Original jokes / puns
- LANG - Language and etymology observations
- LIFE - Stuff going on in my life
- MISC - Miscellaneous
- NET - Things I found online
- NEWS - Comments on / analysis of news stories
- POEM - A poem
- POL - Political commentary
- READ - Something interesting I read
- RR - Trainwatching observations / railroad stuff
- TRAV - Travelogues / things done on the road
- TRIV - Trivia
(If you're wondering why I ignored my blog for nine months, I decided I needed this code the day after my first post--but I thought it would take about four hours to make all the changes I needed to do on the page--so I kept putting it on the back burner.)
Second, I have to impose three rules. I suppose these rules were always in effect, but three out of four comments on my first post violate the second rule, so I suppose I should say this explicitly. This is MY blog. My blog, my soapbox. I accept comments--comments can be useful. I'm not perfect--I make mistakes--comments point them out for me. Comments in and of themselves can be interesting. They may even reveal fans of mine. However,
Rule 1: Comments may not be offensive. If your comment strikes me as being needlessly vulgar, bigoted, or if it's abusive to me or another reader/commenter, it will go bye-bye. Included in this category are comments that openly advocate any philosophy I consider evil (such as communism, Nazism, militant religious fundamentalism) in a manner irrelevant to the topic at hand and/or apparently not playing Devil's advocate.
Rule 2: Comments can't be free advertising. If you want to hawk fake Viagra, your dating site, or shares of the stock CRUDQ, you aren't going to do it here.
Rule 3: If I can't understand your comment, whether it's because it's in a foreign language I don't understand or a bad imitation of English, it will go.
You, of course, have every right to express thoughts that violate these rules elsewhere--however, comments in my blog reflect on me, and I reserve the right to remove comments I don't approve of on my sole discretion. If you want to say it after I delete it, please get your own blog.
Well, I hope I haven't ticked off all my readers. On to the blogging.
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posted by John at 2/02/2006 02:50:00 AM
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