Out of the parlor, into the chickencoop !!

Written by: puddle on Jun 11, 2008 10:13 PM EDT

DFA lays another egg!

This was a rough first draft.  I was crying when I wrote it.  After chilling, I wrote another.  But it's been suggested that this wasn't so bad, so here it is, warts and all.

Fascinating,

the endless attempts from the big wigs at BFA to let us know we are the little wigs.  I.e., Social engineering run amok. 

On my dating site, chatters are ruthlessly banned.  Now, you'd think on a *dating* site, chat would be encouraged. . . .  So many got so banned for so long, they started their *own* site.  Two years later, with less than two hundred members, it's spawned four matches, and several marriages.  A superbly better rate than the site they came from.  And the new site is just friendship, not even a DATING site.

If anyone cared to go back and read the posts from the beginning until now, they would discover that this blog has NEVER, EVER, been on topic.  They would also discover that that is *exactly* and *profoundly* the strength of this blog, and the community it created. 

By taking that core  and heart and moving it to the status of chit-chat, you are deeply and profoundly insulting every blogger who ever blogged here.  With the possible exception of "Daniel Rooney" who never chits or chats.

If you want a hot-shot big time blog, like Kos or Atrios, or the Mahablog, fine create it.  But dammit, pay *some* attention to what you actually DO have.

Maha, btw, gets ten or fifteen comments to a thread, and she's a hellava lot better than this blog is ever likely to be.

Bad management of this blog has already created an alternative which has often had higher traffic than this one. 

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