I write this with trepidation as I’m pretty sure a case could be made for me being guilty of this. It wouldn’t be a very good case, as it’s simply not factual, but it would be most tedious to have to answer to the accusation. There is also the problem that it could seem as [...]
Pressed for time today, so I’ll just toss in a freebie. Have you ever noticed the more sub-literate the poster, the creepier and more embarrassing it is to read about their sex life? There is probably no way to enforce a “You must write at least as well as Danielle Steele to write about sex” [...]
To be fair to the posters on my own board, this isn’t so much a problem on ihmmb.com. Or maybe I’ve just ad blocked it all out and they’ve all got blinkies and tickers and 3×5 pictures of their kids crammed in there. I’d rather not know if this is the case, as I’m quite [...]
The first thing we should do is define what is meant by message board as a blog. I am not talking about those long, ruminative posts about a poster’s life that would not be out of place in a journal or blog, those are fine (or at least as a category they are fine). And [...]
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 [...]
