Community Business
Back at the end of August, I mentioned that I would be pruning the membership list to rid us of abandoned journals, spam, and so forth. Slowly, over the last month, I've gotten through the entire membership list. Now, I didn't delete anyone who has just been quiet--I realize that some people like to lurk and that's fine. What I deleted were the journals that were obviously spam or hadn't been updated at all in two or three years, etc.
I took care as best I could to not remove anyone where there was a chance they might still be here. If I somehow managed to delete anyone by mistake--oops, sorry about that! Join again if you'd like and I'll approve you.
To answer a question I've gotten, this is likely a one-time thing because I noticed there was an excess of spam and abandoned journals. There's not going to be any posting/commenting requirements to be in the community or anything like that.
However, membership requests ARE moderated and I do not intend to be letting a lot of conservatives and/or Republicans join. While I value all points of view and enjoy a good debate as much as anyone, I don't want this community to end up full of right-wing trolls who dominate the discussion, as seems to have happened in liberal.
Also...still working on the community info page, which I expect to be a work in progress. What I'm largely working on now is adding new links. So...if anyone has a suggestion for a link they'd like to see on the info page, please let me know. Blogs, reference sites, etc. I'm especially interested in the little nooks and crannies of the web that are not as obvious and well-known as, say, DailyKos. For example, one reference I've used a lot lately is the election site FiveThirtyEight.com.
Perhaps a list of links to the websites of progressive/Democratic candidates for office would be useful?
Anyone interested in co-moderating the community, let me know that too.
And welcome to those who have just joined us recently: mindrtist, lena_allen, georgprime, esotericaxxx, and probably a couple others I've missed.
I may be the maintainer, but this community belongs to all of you. Ideas, suggestions, information, requests...let me know, either with a comment or a post or an email.
Complaints may be directed to:
Office of Senator John S. McCain
241 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2235
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm
Enjoy the rest of your week!
I took care as best I could to not remove anyone where there was a chance they might still be here. If I somehow managed to delete anyone by mistake--oops, sorry about that! Join again if you'd like and I'll approve you.
To answer a question I've gotten, this is likely a one-time thing because I noticed there was an excess of spam and abandoned journals. There's not going to be any posting/commenting requirements to be in the community or anything like that.
However, membership requests ARE moderated and I do not intend to be letting a lot of conservatives and/or Republicans join. While I value all points of view and enjoy a good debate as much as anyone, I don't want this community to end up full of right-wing trolls who dominate the discussion, as seems to have happened in liberal.
Also...still working on the community info page, which I expect to be a work in progress. What I'm largely working on now is adding new links. So...if anyone has a suggestion for a link they'd like to see on the info page, please let me know. Blogs, reference sites, etc. I'm especially interested in the little nooks and crannies of the web that are not as obvious and well-known as, say, DailyKos. For example, one reference I've used a lot lately is the election site FiveThirtyEight.com.
Perhaps a list of links to the websites of progressive/Democratic candidates for office would be useful?
Anyone interested in co-moderating the community, let me know that too.
And welcome to those who have just joined us recently: mindrtist, lena_allen, georgprime, esotericaxxx, and probably a couple others I've missed.
I may be the maintainer, but this community belongs to all of you. Ideas, suggestions, information, requests...let me know, either with a comment or a post or an email.
Complaints may be directed to:
Office of Senator John S. McCain
241 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2235
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm
Enjoy the rest of your week!