If you are NOT a Contributing Editor….If you have NOT been specifically informed by e-mail that you are a CE….If you have not spoken to me about your Editorship….If you just signed up like a normal person…then the following applies to you!
Just a quick post to clear some stuff up and answer any questions you might have. It seems that some folks misinterpreted (my fault) the rules for being a CE (Contributing editor) with general posting in the recent list.
After spending all morning over at pff responding to comments in the launch diary, I am afraid to write this next sentence….but here goes!
You can literally write anything you want, in any form you want, at any length you want, in the recent essay list.
Really.
Anything
One of my most oft repeated sayings in life is….We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Iow, WHEN someone posts something that is….for some yet unforeseen reason….objectionable somehow….we will deal with it. And someone eventually will, we are clever little monkeys here in the blogoverse.
Mischief expands to fill the space allotted for it.
This is NOT to say you will not receive a full liberal an dripping ration of shit for it. We are ALL directly responsible for every word we right. And just as you have the right to write whatever you want….every one in the whole wide world has every right to object to it however they choose.
I am very grateful to peeder, as a matter of fact. Though I have not spent much time at pff, it is obvious that (to whatever degree) the folks who think blogs need an intensive degree of moderation or else they will implode….are just plain wrong.
If you have a specific goal as Daily Kos does in electing Democrats, there is much to be said for keeping that goal in the forefront. It makes achieving that goal much more attainable if you are focussed. Or if you at least prevent things that are anti that goal.
However, here our goal is not clear cut, in fact it is my opinion that the only way to achieve our nominal goal is to NOT focus too much. If the solutions to the problems in the Big Picture were to be found within the box….they would have already been found. Instead history shows us again and again that true change comes from outside conventional thinking, from outside the box. So part of what we are here to do is demolish the box. But while demolishing the box, not to demolish each other or the larger conversation.
So we are starting with a clean slate and we will make rules up as we go and as they become necessary.
As far as commenting goes I (harumph) shall quote the FAQ!
Be Excellent To Each Other. Don’t Start No Shit, And There Won’t Be No Shit. Live And Let Live. There Is no Crying In CalvinBall.
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As to Contributing Editors, let me try to state the ‘rules’ as clearly as possible.
The following applies ONLY to Contributing Editors…if you have NOT been informed that you are a CE….the following does NOT apply to you!
You are requested to post one original essay a week that is not crossposted at the larger blogs. (smaller sites and personal blogs are fine)
Some folks have scheduled times to post. If you wish to make an unscheduled post, please check the schedule so you are not posting in someone else’s time slot.
The general rule has evolved to….Give an hour on either side of the time you post. In other words….wait an hour after the last person has posted…and make sure you are not posting within an hour of someones scheduled (upcoming)time.
Be prepared to tend your essay for 90 minutes or so.
If you screw up…..you will be forgiven. We will ALL screw up, so forgive those who screw you as you wish to be forgiven by those you screw!
This part is for everyone, lol!
Okay….what have I forgotten and/or what are your questions?
Oh yeah! I have removed the section in the FAQ about becoming a Responsible (damn we need a better name!) User….as far as having to ask to be one etc. ek came up with an algorithm that makes it tough to get., so we are going with that model. OTB says she has added some stuff to the FAQ as well, it is a work in progress, so if you care about such things, check it out occasionally for changes. If there are any major rule changes, lol….we will announce them prominently.
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but I shall resist! Thanks buhdy for the clarifications. I had a question regarding frequency or numbers of essays allowable per day. Uno, dos, tres? alpha, zeta? tango your foxtrot? giddy up pony? 😉
need to know how to change my password to something I can remember
Is there a schedule of scheduled posts? In order to felicitously time release of diaries?
Thanks… for the oxygen here!
Neiiiggghhhhh! (snort snort).
I have a tshirt with a cartoon cat on it that says “All Day Long I Dream of Mischief”. I’ll have to see what I can come up with. Hmmmm, 😉
…so, can we start taking bets on which contributing editor causes a need for a disciplinary hearing first?
Trusted or Responsible User that it be renamed, Excessive User! Cause isn’t that what it really means? Then those members could be EU’s. When EU’s are good they are excellent users. When they are bad they are ewes (baaa aa aa) or ewwwwws!
of not having a specific goal. I am one of those adults who as a kid was told, I was not “living up to my potential”, my thought was : don’t want to peak too early in the game.
perhaps because I’ve always had a “masterpiece complex”. It’s why I’m not a frequent diarist, because I can’t ever expect to create a kick ass humdinger post on par with awesome bloggers of yore. Calling them ‘essays’ makes it even worse for me. If they were called blurbs, or as my friends in the UK say, “wibble”, I might feel freer to fly my freak flag.
Jsut a small confession.
…to get promoted to the bridge. Why would I want to burn it?
Hi all.
Buhdy, you must feel like a proud papa… of brats.
‘everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun’
i hope youre taking the time to enjoy this. you’ve got a helluva good group assembled here, top to bottom….holler if you need anything.
I have not seen it.
I’m not sure about the user name “Dharmando” but I am reserving judgment on whether to register a complaint under EK’s stated policy.
the border at will. It would really help me. Any ideas? The margins I mean. I would like to break them with text, or that is how it would appear, but I can’t figure it out.
…rating, but shouldn’t the 1 be labeled “HORSESHIT”?
has said he will delete anything I write before now. Is that policy going on here too?
This is interesting. People with freedom. And no hierarchy (almost). Is this really happening? Are folks ready for anarchism?
help please. i am having an identity crisis. for some reason i can’t remember now i thought it was time to post under my real name. and now i can’t “relate.” i think after all this time as conchita, i must be….conchita. is there anyway to change my screen name? can i click three times and go back to conchita??
You showed amazing poise at pff today. You must have known that many there would just freak out. Didn’t make any new friends, but didn’t lose any either I think. I only tried the one time to reduce the criticism to absurdity (it’s what I do), figured you were doing fine by yourself.
Pace is the trick.
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That again…is ONLY for CE’s….not for regular ole folks like you, stony!
If you are not an editor…..there are NO rules post when you want!
I will update the essay to make that clearer…thanks!
Just signed up and I must say I love this UID#.
Bow down before me, and you may be spared in the coming apocolypse!
(PS – did I spell that right? I’m still getting used to this whole lord of darkness thing.)
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whats two plus two Trigger?