A New Year, A New Moose?

Dammit we're all front pagers.
To have editors of the blog, who feel obliged to command/control/write something responsible all the time, is just not the model anyone

Like twitter (apologies for mentioning the name - sheesh) we need a flatter, more equal universe, which doesn't pretend to echo some kind of moribund print model

I don't know Balloon Juice or LGF - but anything that gets over this false hurdle of editorial imprimatur sounds good to me.

Better a Loose Moose than a Vamoose Moose

In other words, no point curating a beautiful but dead site. You might as well live in Paris (beautiful but culturally moribund)

I'd prefer something faster and looser - yet more active and engaged.

My two pence sterling worth.  

The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'

Dunno how to solve the FP problem though. If pictureless random diaries become the face of the Moose, we're in danger of heading down the MYDD route.

Maybe every long term member should have FP rights - and decide whether or not they want to be on the sidebar or frontpage.

We set up all kinds of editorial processes which have turned out to be completely irrelevant

Participation is kind. It's like the Globe Theatre in London versus old Proscenium arch theatres. Much better to out there with the groundlings. No barriers.  

The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'

I think the reason we have the Recommended Diaries is because it keeps the 'active' ones up top and visible.

What I might...recommend...is that we change what we call them? Maybe 'Most Active' or the like.

As to having 'everyone' to post on FP...that won't work. Because there is no setting to allow JUST that. By allowing posting on the FP, you also allow that individual to edit any other diary they want and delete any comment they want...which, obviously, could be problematic.

You know I LOVE Balloon Juice (I think I may have recommended it to you ages ago)...however, I don't like the way his comments read/thread. It is hard to follow a long meandering conversation. I REALLY...by miles...prefer the nested comments method. I think it is what works best for the way Moose convos roll.

I probably have other thoughts, but not the time to form them.

Now, lastly...I have been meaning to email the Admin type folks here...I will try to do it tonight. There are..'maintenance' things to discuss.

Hope all are well.

I miss you Mooses.

/grin

I also don't like the idea of everyone being able to post on the front page.  Opens up too much risk.

"When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in teh stupid and waving a gun" ~ Esteev on Wonkette

I tried right-clicking the "Reply" button, potentially a faster method of achieving a new tab to write in, but it didn't offer the "Open in a new tab" option.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.

That throws everything whacky on my page.

Just my (not so) humble opinion.

/winces

Basically agree with Happy.  

Just because they are posting on a progressive site doesn't make them progressives. - John Allen

Except not confused that, on the whole, I really do prefer the old look of the Moosery, especially since the recent comments slab goes so frikkin far down (on the Win7 machine; not as far on the XP because of differences in font) that it's too durn far to scroll before you get to the recent diaries list.

And get off my lawn!

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.

Wotthehellzagoingon?????

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.

Checking once again.....

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.

I agree with the red number thing, that is how I see what has new comments.

"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon

Bernice Johnson Reagon