| These are more for clarification than anything else.
1) Welcome to Doug Coffin and John Bacino, front page posters. Post away, gentleman. Hint, hint hint, I would like and appreciate some feminine influence as well ...
2) There is a one day wait between registration and the ability to post a diary. This is an anti-spam measure. As I'm certain some have noticed, spammers love them some diary space. I've already whacked two of them. Forcing them to wait a day helps. I have also begun deleting accounts that have emails such as "fine.Gucci.handbags at yahoo dot com". I may be wrongish, but I don't think they're here for the discussion ...
3) There is a one day wait for being able to post comments after registration. This is also an anti-spam measure. But it has an added benefit. It prohibits drive-by flaming. There will be (have been) times that something written here sparks someone's need to respond. The wait allows them to consider whether they really want to respond or not. In most cases, the answer would be "No". The simple request is simple. Join the community, or don't. You don't get to have it both ways.
4) If a person has a need to comment or diary about an issue they see here, but can't because of the previous rules, then it needs to come through me. Just because they have a beef does not mean that these requests should come through other users. That sort of defeats the purpose of why these rules were set in the first place (by Jay and Matt, not by me.) It has already happened on my watch, and I would gladly have proffered Katte's response to post. This is not the norm, but rather the exception. Please, my email is public. Use it if you can't get what you want when you want it.
5) Don't spam email me with your pet issue as if I will suddenly be a jumping advocate. I am very sympathetic to most leftward issues. But when I get 5 emails in a day from an advocate for issue X as if I'm supposed to use my limited time to promote X, well, that's just not going to happen. We have front page editors now who can deal with a remarkable range of issues in a remarkable range of manners. Trust them, and trust me. If you have something you wish promoted, post a diary. Or email me as a human, a real live concerned human, and not an issue-bot. I'm not a robot; I'm a Luddite, remember? So you don't be one either.
6) Thank you for the readership. I couldn't mean that more sincerely. |
