Technically speaking...

I should be on break right now. And not posting at all. However, due to some recent developments, my break won't start until after I finish this post.

I know I said I wouldn't take a break until the new navi system was put in, but that's not going to happen. Right now, I've got to take a break. I've come down with some stomach thing so I've been home since the middle of second period.

I basically spent all day drinking water, apple juice, or orange-flavored Gatorade (the water flushes out electrolytes, Gatorade puts them back in). And eating Saltines. Saltine crackers are my new best friends.

So yes, I'm going to go on my two week break now. Even with the navi system not completely done. January is hellish to get through. Dan was supposed to work on that part, but he's busy having a life (and not being sick). I tried working on it today when I wasn't busy being sick and/or watching Dead Like Me.

Unless something serious happens, like the site crashes, or death threats come in, or censorship issues pop up, I don't think I'll be back until the two weeks is completely through. I'm still monitoring the site - all the comments get sent to me as e-mails - so behave with your usual decorum (or recent lack thereof). As of oh, let's say 11:00pm tonight, I will not be posting anything until I return from my break. I wanted to call it a sabbatical, but the dictionary won't let me.

To my fellow admins: Thank you for your increased involvement with the site. If not for you guys, I wouldn't be able to take this much needed break.

To my fellow tangsters: I leave you in the ever capable hands of my fellow administrators. Thanks for your overwhelming support for the site, as seen through your posts, your comments, and your torture of Wikipedia ;-) Continue your posts, your loves, your lives, your tangst. Have fun, be well, and do at least some of your homework.


A Heartwrenching Farewell With Much Love to You All,

Heather "sithgirl" Sit
Tangst Creator, Admin, and Poster

December Traffic Update

On Tangst, December was a particularly low month, as far as traffic goes, mostly because of the Winter Break. However, I'm posting a summary of said traffic as a benchmark to see where we grow in the future.

Monitoring Period: 7-31 December 2005

Total Hits: 3400

Average Hits/Day: 136

Lowest Day: 27 December 2005 (38)

Highest Day: 19 December 2005 (307)

As an additional note, Tangst has received 6450 hits since 1 January 2006. This is a notice that will become monthly as the months roll on.

Calls for censorship will basically be ignored.

Sometimes, the comments are a lot more provoking than the posts are. At least to me.

This morning, there's a great example of that. The post reads, "I fucked my neighbor's dog. I enjoyed it very much." While I find that morally reprehensible and sick - I'm totally fine with that going on the site. PChis and I, and later TintedFragipan and I, got into discussions over that going on the site. And during those concurrent discussions - comments started flying up. One of which declared that we should censor it. Obviously, that person didn't read our censorship policy (aka we don't censor except when names are used for the purpose of defamation - or in the case of teachers*).

The comment that got to me though, and that the two admins posted replies to, was the one declaring our site is less credible for allowing that post to exist.

Let's imagine for a moment: I'm a regular Enloe student who heard about this website from a friend. I had a really crucial secret that I had to share and I knew this was the perfect place to do it. This was my dream come true.

The first thing that I see when I get on the site is this post. I am disgusted and this site's credebility is severly compromised. Do I really want to be sharing anything with these sickos? I will never come back. I will tell all of my friends to stay away as well.

Moral of the story: Some things are better left unsaid.

Honestly, that's one of the most close-minded things ever said on this site. So congratulations to that commenter. Not that they'll read this if they're never coming back. But kudos all the same. On previous posts, the commenters who were called closed-minded are nothing compared to you. At least they were open-minded enough to debate the people on the other sides of the various issues. They're weren't going to listen to them (or even think of changing their opinions), but at least they engaged them.

Tangst, its administrators, its contributors, its regular posters, and most of all its creator (namely, me) pride themselves on the fact that the site posts everything, no matter how sick or twisted or wrong it seems to any individual. The fact is, if it's a valid secret, confession, poem, statement of emotion, whatever, it will be posted. And then promptly commented on. The only things we delete are spam. And those are really damned obvious because they're always trying to sell something or promote a site.

If that commenter's secret was as crucial as they thought it was - the bestiality post wouldn't have scared them away. Because the point of the site is to help yourself. I know everyone enjoys reading other people's comments - I do too - but the purpose is to get the release of knowing your secret is out there.

I'm glad that person's not coming back. If I knew who it was in real life, I'd probably want to fight them. Instead, I just feel sorry that they can't deal with two simple sentences. If any of that makes me a bad person, well, I can deal with that and I'll happily accept it as a consequence.

The post itself will probably cause a high level of controversy. It may even be more "popular" than the one by the guy that hates gay people. But the fact is, it belongs. If the site loses posters and commenters for it, I'm sorry, but it's staying.

Everyone should feel free to post whatever it is that's on their minds. Not everyone will agree with it. I may not agree with it (that's happened a couple of times, actually). But it will go on the site. And that's a blanket rule.

P.S. I don't think there's such a thing as a "regular" Enloe student. We're all pretty offbeat in our own way.

P.P.S. Also, on the credibility issue - I think the site gains credibility every time a highly controversial post goes up. It reinforces the fact that we do welcome everything. From every point of view. No matter what.

P.P.P.S. Lastly, that the commenter spelled "credibility" and "severely" incorrectly just really bothers me. If you're going to flame the site, do it properly with capital letters and bold words that show just how mad you are. Use correct English (spelling, grammar, mechanics) as well. Otherwise, we're just going to laugh at how sad you must be.

* Teacher Exception: The Dr. Hoffman post. The only reason his name is still there is because he approved it. Which was really nice of him.

I'm in for a really late night. Or would it be an early morning...

I think I mean really early morning.

Work on the new navigation system officially begins today, after I finish archiving everything for the past two weeks. Everything that got written after Winter Break has to be archived because I don't have time for it during the week - the volume is just too high. Personally, I think it's a really good thing; it means people are using the site, which makes me happy.

Hopefully I can get new system up and working correctly by Sunday. If not, I always have Monday to work on it too, but that would be a tad annoying. The sooner it gets put in place, the more time I have to do other stuff.

But I love the site. It's fun to work on things for it. It helps me relax, which is a really good thing. Unfortunately, the time I have to work on it is extraordinarily limited - thus all the new admins who are helping out.

[NOTE: Thank you Peter and Reed and Dan and Matthew and Mitch and Hannah and Knight_Racer979 and Leo and Corey. You guys rock.]

Update on the Wiki situation: Basically, we're getting deleted. Don't worry about it though, as you can see on the sidebar, we've got everything saved and backed up. Dan's got a really nice screen capture of the thing; if anyone wants a copy, either leave your name and e-mail as a comment to this post or send me an e-mail at my.tangst@gmail.com with the subject heading "wiki article." You can capitalize that whatever way you want. Thank you to everyone who went and tried to save it. It was pretty hopeless but I appreciate the effort nonetheless.

Oh, and lastly...

REQUEST: Apparently, e-mails got sent about the wiki thing. I didn't get any of these. I'd personally like to see them and save them for record keeping purposes and my own amusement. If anyone has one - could you please forward it to me? Please? Pretty please?

Update on the Wiki.

Yeah, we're getting booted off. I think we've all resigned ourselves to that fate. It doesn't bother me as much as it did before - trying to salvage lost causes is only something I'll attempt in real life, when I can meet people face to face. There's something terribly impersonal about the internet and forums. Even Tangst, with it's sense of community, leaves me as a bit cold sometimes. It's a lot better than some other sites, but does lack that last little thing that meeting people brings.

Anyways, because of what the discussion has started to deteriorate down to, I think I should just send that one guy, the one who put the article up for deletion, a nice long e-mail explaining why he sucks.

Just kidding.

I do want to send him an e-mail though, a nice long eloquent one, about why, if he's just going to delete it anyways, he should go ahead and do so. I mean, he's not been so bad, but one of his fellow wiki admins took a potshot at a poster. That's... not cool in my book. In anyone's book, really. I mean, does being petty really bring that much joy to his life? I guess it would considering he's a copy editor.

Quite basically, I'm tired of getting all of those comments saying that we just aren't good enough. While I have a more than a healthy amount of self-esteem, enough of the Tangst posters don't. Debating over whether or not something they love (I'm flattering myself here) qualifies for a wiki article probably isn't helping them as they watch this relatively minor struggle. I'm incredibly protective of the people and things I care about. Watching the discussion now just makes me sad. When a Tangster goes, argues a valid point, and then gets shot down by a guy who's favorite self-quote is "It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that," I'm going to have problems with that.



I acknowledge it's a poor argument. I know poor arguments, I mock enough people at debate tournaments for them. I could care less what the wiki people think about the site. But don't they dare mess with my posters again. Abuse of power? Yes. Insulting? Greatly so. Reminiscent of elementary school? Indeed. Isn't the point to discuss the site, not discuss the discussion?

Bah, I think I should write that e-mail though, to end this madness. I hate uncertainty.

What do all of you think?

I was fun while it lasted I guess.

Wiki makes me laugh. Hard.

So pretty much our stint on Wiki is doomed.

But you know, we've had fun with our time there. Dan and I now have awesome pics in memoriam. Today's latest development yielded these two beauties.


A lovely warning that completely ignored what the post actually said. The post doesn't say anything about voting. At all. In fact, the first comment basically says that if you do go to the wiki discussion, be rational, be reasonable, be credible, and leave something that's worthwhile. I honestly just think they aren't paying attention anymore. They saw the post and thought, "Oh, obsessive blog fanatics. They MUST be unreasonable! We'll put a stop to that nonsense!" This prejudice and stereotype is evidenced in the next pic.


.....

Yes, because all blogs that get on Wiki before their time mean an abuse of the system. Really, they can just take us off now, before they start insulting the entire blogging community. I'm tempted to post that on a board somewhere. I know a couple of really good fanatical ones. It would be sweet revenge ;-) Especially because since we're a blog, it automatically means we can't spell worth shit. I bet Mrs. A, Ms. C, and Dr. B would LOVE to know that. All our English teachers would be so proud of their writing stars (Hannah and Matthew especially; the Plan B Ninja, who already doesn't like ".org"s, would, I think, plan a slaughter).

But no, we won't be as vindictive as that. Unlike them, I like the informality of our awesomeness. I like that we're a tight knit community, all secretly on the look out for each other, hoping against hope we meet a fellow tangster in the hallowed hallways of our respective schools. I revel in the fact that we're almost cultish. Oh to hell with it, we ARE cultish.

Wiki admin can go screw themselves. According to a couple of articles they do allow, it is possible (I can't link that one, I'd definitely get in trouble).

Happy Tangsting Everyone!

*I also love that I can use their site against them. That's just too much fun on it's own.*

Au revoir Wikipedia

As of now, Tangst does not appear to meet the requirements necessary to reside as an article in the annals of the great Wikipedia. You can read the discussion Tangst held about the rejection we received by clicking here.

In light of the dismissal from our status at Wikipedia, the Tangst blog has been modified to include a set of posts that recreate the descriptions previously stored on Wikipedia. To your right, on the sidebar, you can see a new module called "All About Tangst." The new module appears on all pages within the Tangst blog, and links within this new module provide for the visitor a glimpse at the content previously brought to you on the Tangst wiki.

All the articles available in the "All About Tangst" module are comments-locked, meaning no one can leave comments directly posted to them. The articles will be updated per necessesity, and changes will be noted by a comment to the main page of the Tangst blog.

Obsession is the name of the game.

Yeah, I'm still excited about the Wikipedia entry. Thanks to Dan, it looks like a legitimate article now, with redirects and links to other articles and websites. It's really cool looking now.

Plus, as Peter pointed out, the language actually sounds authoritative and professional, like all the other Wikipedia articles, so it seems like it fits. Except... it's talking about us which makes me giggle.

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As I commented on Tangst itself, I, personally, won't be making any changes to site template until after I finish with the new system. It wouldn't be worth the effort or time to change those since we're converting the site within about a week's time frame anyways.

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To also address the question of copyrights and trademarks, all that legal stuff is a tad complicated. Now I know why law schools were invented. Reading through all of laws on the government websites is really... discouraging, to say the least. It's rather complex and the amount of money involved in registering Tangst for the sole use of Teen Angst Central is too much. I'm just not going to pay $175 to have it done. Not unless I suddenly come into a large inheritance that would pay for 4 years of college, 3 years of law school, and a car. Only then would I shell out the money to have Tangst trademarked.

In terms of the copyright, those run out. Which really isn't cool. I'm exactly sure how the copyright would work, anyways, since I'm not the one who provides most of the material for the site. And is copyrighting for anonymous people really able to be done?

If someone has parents who are lawyers that deal in copyrights and trademarks, asking them for the answers and sharing them with me would be a big help.

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For the issue of getting a tangst.com redirect, yes, ten dollars for a year is negligible. But I have no idea how to set that in place. But why would I pay ten dollars when right now I'm paying nothing? If someone else wants to get that done and is willing to pay the money and set it up, go ahead. I'll give you a listing credit on the site, probably on the sidebar after the list of contributors. Or something like that. If someone actually does that, we'll work things out then.

Alright, we officially rock.

We have an entry in Wikipedia. It's located here.

While yes, I did make some additions to the article, the fact of the matter is, it was created by someone else. This is incredibly cool and blows my mind in a way. We are an acceptable entity to the world community. We're authenticated.

For those of you who didn't know, we also have a Facebook group, located here. Unfortunately, that's only open to the Enloe community. If you'd like to start a Tangsty chapter for your school, go ahead, just remember to use Tangst itself as the group website. And leave a comment on here so we can all celebrate the spread of our collective obsession.

Bouncing ideas is fun. And it helps.

Over the next week or so, I'll be fleshing out plans for, and hopefully implementing, an additional navigation system.

With the increase in overall posting, and the huge increase in the site's daily activity and popularity, having the "Popular Posts" section on the sidebar isn't as useful (or as practical) as it used to be. I'm either going to change it to a system with "Classic Posts" where there's one post that I think best highlights each issue that's appeared on the site multiple times (ex. falling for one of your friends, the homosexuality debate, suicide, drug use, sex, crushes on teachers) OR a system where those categories are instead used to sort all the posts and show only the ones relating to that topic. It would be a lot like the "Navigation" part of the sidebar on Sonder. If anyone else has any ideas, let me know. Any comments on the two ideas I presented are incredibly welcome.

The entire idea is to improve the usability of the site. I really stress over user-friendliness and I know that digging through the Archives on Tangst sucks. The monthly setup on the side isn't that helpful if you're looking for a specific post or a certain type of post. Having to read through all the posts for a month in search of one particular post isn't fun. I've done it.

Basically, the point of this blog is to improve communcation between the administrators and the users so that the site evolves and improves. Tangst isn't perfect and there are a lot of problems. Hopefully, as I learn more HTML and web design features, things will get much better.

User criticisms/suggestions* are welcomed and encouraged, because I'll only think of so many things myself. You can either leave comments here, or e-mail me at my.tangst@gmail.com. By now, everyone knows how obsessive I am about checking my e-mail, so responses should be rather quick. And if you don't feel like e-mailing or leaving a comment, you can always just catch me during school (if you're an Enloe person).

*Do remember, though, that if your criticism is just "This site sucks" my response will be "So don't visit."

Happy posting.

I start again.

I'm tired of posting tangst things in Sonder. It's just getting ridiculous, the number of things I'd have to stick there in order to keep Tangst functioning the way I want.

So here, I will chronicle the various Tangst things as a way to keep all the changes straight. This will showcase the evolution of the site as a separate entity from Sonder. Because while tangst is yes, a part of my life, it doesn't dominate it, no matter what it seems like.

The posts before this will obviously be backdated copies from Sonder just so I can keep things ordered.

Tangst Policies

INFORMATION

Contained on this page are three sets of information of importance to users of Tangst(TM) community sites: Site Policies, Legal References, and Policy Revisions. By using Tangst(TM) community sites, you agree to the information and terms outlined hereafter.


DISCLAIMERS/LEGAL NOTICES/TERMS OF SERVICE/SITE POLICIES

1. By submitting to Tangst (henceforth a reference to any Tangst Community site), you grant the admins the right to censor or otherwise modify your comments and posts in any way shape or form. We avoid censoring submissions, but there have been a few occasions in which censorship has been exercised per necessity.
   
   
2. Opinions and views expressed on Tangst are those of individual posters and should not be construed as a reflection of those held by the communtiy at large or its administrators. Tangst may contain content you find objectionable. Your consent to these terms affirms that the Tangst community, its administrators, and its parent host Blogger may not be held liable for the quality of content published to Tangst, Tangsty Prose & Poetry (Tangsty), or The Tangst Blog (Tangstblog). There are no further warnings.
   
   
3. Copyright infringements committed on the pages of Tangst, Tangsty, and Tangstblog are violations transgressed by the posters to these sites. The Tangst administrators stand by their committment to ensure proper attribution of credit for such works, though no guarantee exists that such attributions will be correct. If you have a complaint regarding copyrighted material posted to any of the Tangst community sites, email my.tangst@gmail.com or contact any of the site admins.
   
   
4. Tangst community sites (Tangst, Tangsty, or Tangstblog) may contain links to foreign (non-Tangst) websites. The content available at these external sites is not under the authority of the Tangst admins; linkage carries no guarantee of accuracy, quality, timeliness, or coolness for the external content.
   
   
5. Tangst community sites are made available for personal, non-commercial use only. Users of these sites may not use their resources to advertise/sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to internet resources for commercial reasons. If users choose to use the site for spamming purposes, the Tangst administration reserves the right to exercise measures blocking their access on an individual, case-by-case basis.
   
   
6. It is highly unlikely that posters to Tangst community sites are licensed psychologists, psychiatrists, or therapists of any kind. If you have serious personal circumstances, you should actively seek help from a licensed professional. A bunch of teenagers giving each other romantic advice is very different from a bunch of teenagers giving each other medical advice. While neither should be taken completely seriously, the latter can be much more dangerous to your health.
   
   
7. The Tangst administrators reserve the right to modify or terminate Tangst community sites and/or their policies for any reason, without notice or liability to community members or any who may have an interest vested in their existence. We also reserve the right to modify these terms of service without notice. Please review these policies occasionally to remain apprised of any changes.
   
   
8. We're not legal scholars, yet. We're also not therapists or psychologists. We're high school Seniors who barely know their own minds.
   

POLICY REFERENCES

1. Terms and Conditions of Service. Google. 05 Jan. 2006.
   
   
2. General Disclaimer. Wikipedia. 05 Jan. 2006.
   
   
3. Legal Notice. PostSecret Project. 05 Jan. 2006.
   

POLICY REVISIONS AND UPDATES

1. [Sithgirl] Comments will not be allowed on posts over a month old. At that point, they're a pain to find and archive, and so few people post comments on things after they're off the main page anyways, so this is pretty practical. (01/06/2006)
   
   
2. [Sithgirl] Tangst (TM) isn't a registered trademark, but considering how much I've popularized it, I think I should get a bit of credit for it. That's just courtesy. Or netiquette. I'm not sure which, to be honest. (01/06/2006)
   
   
3. [Sithgirl] The time window for commenting on posts is being reduced to a week, starting today. I have to have less lag time for the archives with the new system I want to implement. With the addition of all the new admins, I have to have a better record of all the posts, just in case something happens. It's not that I don't trust them, it's just that anything could happen, and I have to be prepared for that. (01/15/2006)
   
   
4. [Sithgirl] Specifics about the censorship policy are located here. (01/21/2006)
   
   
5. [龙年] Policy listing updated for easily discernible numeration and reference. (02/12/2006)
   
   
6. [Sithgirl] I'm adding a clarification for the definition of "commercial" in Section E. For the purposes of Tangst, "commercial" is being defined in terms of money. So the section should now read as "no monetary gain." (04/14/2006)
   
   
7. [龙年] Policies updated to reflect the evolution of Tangst into a larger community managed by a group of admins, as well as decisions made regarding community events. Also added are links to cross-refrenced content to ensure transparency of management. Policy page format updated for readability and cleanliness. (08/09/2006)
   

3AM Revelations Rock My World

A couple days ago, I announced that the 300th post on tangst was fast approaching. As a way of "celebrating," I was planning to write out a post confessing one of my secrets. As the counter ticked away, I started thinking about what exactly it was I'd confess to. It had to be something good; I couldn't just use a cheap cop out post like "I tell lies," or something simplistic like that. It couldn't be a huge secret (I have three at the moment) that would seriously alter my life if they got out to the general public.

Oddly enough, there is one other person who knows all three of those secrets. The first I've been keeping for about five years now. Coincidentally, I've told five people, three within the past 6 months. The second secret I've had for the past three weeks maybe, and I've only told three people. All three learned within the same weekend, but two of the three don't know the first secret. The last big secret isn't terribly important, but I'd like to keep it under wraps because it seriously could screw things up for other people besides me (the first two are totally me-centric). Two people know this one, and I'm pretty damn sure they're going to keep it to themselves. If they don't... well, bad things will happen.

What was I talking about? Oh yes, celebrating the 300th post with a really good secret.

On Thursday, the 300th post went up, and every day since, I've been racking my brain, trying to come up with something. Sadly, it didn't hit me until about ten minutes ago what to write. And now, as I sit here typing away, I've realized I have two options to choose from. Both of which are equally interesting - or not - and both of which I really don't mind talking about.

1) Almost all of the posts already on tangst are my secrets. I started thinking that when I worked on the archives. When I read over the posts, sometimes I can't help but go, "Oh, I could have written that. Probably less eloquently (or with fewer typos), but I definitely could have written that." It's incredibly amazing how similar we all are.

2) My actual secret. The uber special one I chose. This probably should have been placed as #1 since I thought of it first, but I quite past caring right now. It's actually more of a confession than a secret, but because tangst welcomes anything, it works. It was inspired by two of the posts that went up recently on the site. The one about not really wanting to date and the one about anonymity and telling "him" about her feelings after years of silence.

While I was writing my response to the latter about the sad truth of the situation I found myself in earlier this year, I realized that no matter how much I like any guy right now, I would have no idea as to what I'd be doing in a relationship with him. I'd be completely and totally lost. Because no matter what I it is I like about the guy in question, he's got to have the things that I need. Which of course would be the things - traits, skills, etc - that I seriously lack. There's no way I can date anyone if I can't get over my various fears and neuroses that hinder my ability to merely socialize with people. It's weird how these nice revelations always happen to me at 3 in the morning. Pleasant, huh?

A few years ago (like, two or something), I was having a sleepover and we were all bored so we decided to make lists of the traits and qualities that we thought were absolutely necessary in the guys we'd eventually. Afterwards, we made lists of the things we wanted, but didn't need him to have. My needs list ran on for about a page (two columns, bulleted, college-ruled paper). My wants list was considerably shorter (it takes up a quarter of a page). I've got both of them sitting in front of me right now (hooray for being a pack-rat that loves her notebooks). It's rather interesting to look at them and see what's changed over two years.

A few of the items on the needs list make me laugh ("taller - because if he's shorter than me, that's just sad" is literally what I wrote), but what's amazing is the amount of thought I put into making the list itself. Just glancing over the two lists and comparing them, the needs list is more about abilities, inate qualities, and personality traits while the wants list is almost entirely superficial. Analyzing myself further, there are a lot of things I'd cross off both lists now, some that switched from needs to wants, and several items that I'd add. Actually I think I really will redo these lists because they are fun, and something to do, and I'm not tired yet.

But yeah, going back to my original thoughts. Almost all of the things on the needs list are things that either negate my flaws or enhance my strengths. I was pretty wise for a freshman.

Copied from Sonder on 01/15/206.

More Admins?

I've been tossing around a few ideas lately, some of which I might present here later.

The one that's got me really thinking, though, is going on a short sabbatical (like two weeks to a month) in regards to tangst. The fact of the matter is that the site takes of way too much of my time. While I love it, and everyone's support makes me incredibly happy, the sheer volume of posts is a tad overwhelming. We're almost at the 300 mark, which I may celebrate by revealing one of my secrets. Now that more people know about our little nook of the Internet, the number of comments has really gone up. On any given day of the week, tangst gets at least 70 hits. Actually, that was the least number of hits it's gotten since the increased traffic started (and that day happened to be over Winter Break).

I like that site is getting more popular. It's really cool that everyone's embraced it and is posting like mad. I hope this growth continues. However, I need a break. So what I'm planning is that after exams are over, I want to start a transition to actually have other administrators. Right now, there are just contributors. I'll of course send them an e-mail with more specific details as to exactly what it is I'm thinking of doing. And they definitely get first dibs on admin spots. I don't know how many I want, but I think somewhere around 10 would be good. Maybe less.

Administrating duties would just be things like checking the site to see if there are any new comments and posting them and not allowing comments on the posts over a month old. Just daily upkeep sort of things. Monitoring the previous posts to make sure that there doesn't need to be an intervention or censoring of comments. Simple stuff, but there's just too much of for me to do alone anymore.

The point of this is that I know all of the people who read this also read tangst, but that the people who read tangst don't necessarily read my blog. That's fine. Preferable, actually. But I wanted to give the people closer to me the opportunity to talk with me about it and help me figure out what I'll be doing. So if there are any suggestions, tips, questions, etc, leave me a comment here, or talk to me in real life. Oddly enough, real life might be more convenient.

Change can be good, and I'm hoping the transition will be relatively smooth. I hope so, anyways.

Copied from Sonder on 01/15/2006.