Open Letter to Potential Contribs & Admins

[I've been receiving e-mails about adding more contributors and administrators for some time now. While it may seem like I've ignored all of these requests, they've been weighing pretty heavily on my mind. I've been completely unable to come up with appropriate responses, especially after considering that the last time a contributor got added without any serious amount of forethought, we had what we amounted to be a crisis situation. Obviously, that can not happen again. Below is a copy of an e-mail I wrote to the latest contributor request. This will be the form letter for any other contributor/admin requests I get from now until around November 1, 2006. If anyone has specific questions, I'll also address those through e-mail.]

Dear -----,

Thank so much for you interest in becoming a contributor for Tangst. Unfortunately, I have no time to screen for new contributors right now. Current admins are in the brainstorming stage of how we're going to get new admins for next year when we all graduate. If you can hang on for another two weeks, I think we'll be done with all the things making us busy and unable to do anything extra regarding Tangst.

My plans, as they exist now, are to finish my college applications. After that long and arduous process, I will have more time and energy to concentrate on Tangst. Thus, I'll be creating an application for new admins and contributors with the help of my fellow administrators for next year's admin pool. This will give me more time to carefully consider the applications and give them the attention they deserve. If you lose interest in becoming an admin in that two week time frame, sorry, but maybe that's a good thing so I know it's not just a fleeting interest instead of a priority commitment.

Over the summer, 龙年 and I discussed having actual positions for the incoming admins. We got incredibly lucky with the admins we tempted into joining. We've got a tech person, literary fanatics, and several night owls which seems to be a combination that works. I don't know how we're going to manage that again, I just know that we'll have to find some way to get as much time covered as possible. This may or may not involve people in other time zones, I have no idea.

As time goes on, and the ideas become more fleshed out, I'll be sending out e-mails and posting more entries on the Tangst blog detailing what will happen, the things we're looking for, the actual responsibilities and duties of being an admin or contributor, side effects of being an admin/contributor, etc.

If you're still interested in becoming a contributor or an admin, just e-mail me [back] to let me know to keep you on the rolling e-mail list I've got.

Once again, thank you for your interest and continued support of the site. It's people (Tangsters) like you who keep it all going.

Love,
H

Updates, Excuses, and Thank Yous

So basically, nothing has been going according to plans. To be honest, I should have anticipated the fact that everything would be pushed back. Not necessary as late as everything is, but I definitely should have known that we wouldn't meet the high expectations we'd set for ourselves.

Obviously, the list (and explanations) of the changes made over the summer have still not been completed. It's partially compiled, but I know that a few other things have changed.

Monthly traffic and update reports haven't been issued since May. While we aren't exactly scrambling over those, we have been working on them.

Posting has been really sporadic of late, I know. Especially at later times of day - anything circa 10, 11, or midnight has the possibility of being posted anywhere between 7 seconds and 7 hours later. It completely depends on who decided to sleep/was sick that particular night.

As most everyone at Enloe knows, something terrible has been lurking the halls and attacking about everything it can get its hands on. And by that I mean pretty much everyone has been sick at some point this year already. Unfortunately, the Tangst admins are not impervious to the nasty bug.

Additionally, college applications are a huge concern for all of us this year (the exception, is of course, Maverick, who is already in college, the lucky bastard). Right now, I, personally, am wading my way through 6. All of which are early notifications. 4 of which require me to write something. The same 4 require teacher recommendations and counselor reports. My life is due promptly on November 1st, November 15th, and December 1st. This does not include scholarship applications (which are the current plague of 龙年). The first SAT testing date is October 14th. I am actually studying (for the math portion, but that's still studying).

So we're all a little sick, a lot stressed, and either sleeping a lot or not at all.

Things will improve after college applications are done and sent out. The workload for senior year is more than I expected, but not like last year, so I know we'll survive. Hopefully all this means Tangst can gain back some regularity after college concerns have been abated.

And a huge thanks to our base for continuing to use the site, in spite of the Blogger problems, in spite of our slowness, and in spite of the piling homework. Your want of procrastination keeps this site alive.

Love,
H.

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