I guess, but I hate those articles and I never partipate on them.  What's the point?  No one will convince someone of the wrongness of their thinking. 

 

I dont think the upgrade is the reason .....

It is more serious than that .... it is the content ...

Nothing can survive arrogance combined with a tunnel-vision-mentality policy.

 

 

I know that this is actually the polar opposite of his politics but is COL Gene still blogging? That somehow reminded me of his posts.

 

In any case it is nice to see the unfamiliar names here (and the old familiar ones too).

 

Sometimes that can be a bit annoying but in large part it is the cross-posting that makes JU different from many blog sites. The sydication is what brings in readers. JU never could have taken off the way it did a couple years ago without those crossover browsers.

 

Ok, I will put away my Stardock fanboy costume again.

 

 

I think that there were some homosexuals who were teetering on leaving. The interface Darwinism,  combined with the declining religious writing of those of us who found ourselves with other priorities caused us to abort our prolife-ic habits of the past.  (Did I miss anything?) :~D

 

I also think that for most of us JU was a community and all the other forum categories made up other communities.  When the new format was introduced, all the "communities" were thrown together.. which kind of messed up the community spirit in all of them (or maybe just JU).  It's kind of like Brad threw a party, inviting all his circles of friends.  Have you ever been to a party with people from two different parts of your world?  They almost always begin with the "sitting around looking at each other" phase.  The good ones end with new friendships and discoveries of new kinds of fun, but often end as uncomfortable as they began.

 

QFT.

Also, it seemed that the cross posting was something he WANTED to happen, but he also claimed that NOTHING HAD CHANGED. Something changed when we switched, and now there's a whole bunch of stuff on the forums that didn't use to be there. It really clutters up what used to be a JU forum with light sprinklings of WC or GC or whatever else is going on.

 

Please for the love of god. Never use this on any article again. At least not on my blog. I got quite enough of this particular net-ism trolling the Ron Paul forums and it induces something of a Pavlovian reaction in me now.

 

 

Again I will point out that it is the cross-posting and autosyndication which brought us all readers in the first place. Just try a place like LiveJournal or WordPress sometime and see the difference.

 

First time posters here get comments on their intro articles from folks they never met. That just doesn't happen with other blog sites.

 

 

I stopped because DA and the units were fucking hard with the soldiers that were blogging when I went over. So I saved it 'til I got back, only now I'm out of the habit, and most of the people I'm used to are gone gone gone.