I am temperamentally unsuited to be a message board administrator/owner. Not that I try to impose my will on the people; it would not do for me to force people to act in a manner both logical and aesthetically pleasing, even if they are using my bandwidth (not that I ever mention this, I do have home training).
No, the problem is, I want people to want to be like me, and to want to willingly follow my procedures and protocols for logical and aesthetically pleasing posting. I have even considered writing an e-book, but it would seem that the demand is not there. Or at least it wasn’t when I was merely a poster at another site, maybe now that I own one, the kiss up factor could drive sales, especially if I threw in a cook book.
The thing is, there is always going to be some feeling of ownership on my part. Or rather, to use an analogy, say you’re planning a dinner party and you have this vision in your mind of how things will go, the dishes you’ll serve, the conversations you’ll have, the music you’ll listen to, before the guests arrive you have the evening mapped out. Then people start coming and some folks bring dishes that weren’t on your menu, but you set them out anyway. The conversations are not the ones you’d scripted in your head and your CDs are abandoned for somebody’s IPod playlist. Everyone is having a good time, even though it’s not the good time you had imagined for them. You have to let go of the vision, kick off your shoes and join the conga line that’s forming in your living room.
Sometimes letting go of the plan is the right choice, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t have a good plan.
