Freethought Blogs has two new blogs, as you might well have noticed already. Miriam Mogilevsky’s Brute Reason is finally here, after I somehow managed to screw things up pretty badly when setting up her blog (first by installing her banner on the site’s front page instead of her own, then by having my pic and bio on her blog instead of hers). And Paul Fidalgo’s Near Earth Object is also here. So excited to have both of them here.
Dec 01 2012
New Blogs! New Blogs!
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melody
December 1, 2012 at 10:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Fantastic choices!
Gretchen
December 1, 2012 at 10:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What melody said! But for some reason Near Earth Object isn’t showing up on the main page…
Trebuchet
December 2, 2012 at 12:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Like Gretchen says, NEO is not showing up, either on the main page or the blogroll at the right.
And since the main page is getting rather long, might you consider minimizing some of the inactive blogs for a while? Leave them in the blogroll but maybe not taking up space on the main page? Or shift them to the bottom?
Ed Brayton
December 2, 2012 at 1:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah, we’re trying to fix that. I screwed things up somehow and Matt is trying to clean up my mess.
StevoR
December 2, 2012 at 6:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Any chance you could bring Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog here?
I would so love that and I don’t think Slate (yuk) has been doing it justice since he shifted there a while ago.
democommie
December 2, 2012 at 8:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed:
You’re not a bad looking guy, but I don’t even think that Harvey Fierstein could make you a beautiful woman:
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democommie
December 2, 2012 at 8:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And, I forgot, welcome aboard, Miriam.
melody
December 2, 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Frankly, I wish you would make a rule that if a blog is inactive for X amount of time, it gets the boot. I don’t think most of us wants it here anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Trebuchet
December 2, 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Melody: I really don’t agree with giving them the boot just because they’re inactive. Sometimes real life get in the way. Just take them off the main page for a while until they get back to posting.
If you want to give someone the boot, there’s at least one blogge here that I feel contributes nothing to the site.
Is anyone else forseeing being confused by Miriam and Mariam?
Gretchen
December 2, 2012 at 11:20 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t know if this is possible, but it would be nice if the blogroll on the main page was arranged by frequency of posts. Blogs with more recent posts would be at the top, while those on hiatus would fall to the bottom.
Trebuchet
December 2, 2012 at 12:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@10: I was just thinking that myself. It wouldn’t change the two at the top a bit! Perhaps some algorithm combining frequency of posting and number of comments. I don’t suppose it’s practical, however.
democommie
December 2, 2012 at 12:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Perhaps some algorithm combining frequency of posting and number of comments. I don’t suppose it’s practical, however.”
I’m sure that the algorithmavens could come up with something. I tried a ‘sperment at my blog where I took all of the blogs I blogrolled (including my own) and set it up to work off of the relative sanity of comments algorithm and my blog went “poof”.
mobius
December 2, 2012 at 6:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ok…now Miriam’s comment about her attempted coup of FtB makes sense.
StevoR
December 3, 2012 at 1:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@8.melody :
Your wrong in my view.
Drop their blog to the bottom of the page sure – drop them from FTB altogether, no. That’s too harsh in my view. People can still come back and contribute again and should have the option of doing so I think.
StevoR
December 3, 2012 at 1:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ ^ Correction – Your = you’re.
Jen McCreight is a classic example of someone who was forced into inactivity for personal reasons (ie. sustained vicious flaming shitstorm attacks on her by MRA scumbags) who deserves the opportunity to return whenever she chooses and I hope that’s soon.
@9.Trebuchet : Are you suggesting Maryam Namazie gets the boot because she can be confused with Miriam? Or /and Maryam Namazie contributes not much here? I very strongly disagree and think that’s an awful thing to say.