February 17, 2002

  •  I am a communist
    (?!?)


    Since the real Winter Olympics are awarding simultaneous gold medals for the same event to various teams, should we not, in the same spirit, demand that Xangalympics give everyone Premium for Life for free??!!  lmao


    Actually, I think they should!  Why?  Because the boards lie.  I know for a fact, that at least one and probably at least two new accounts joined Xanga here recently on my recommendation and credited me.  Yet, when I display my *game board*, it boasts squat.  Hell.  I'm changing my nationality to Canadian.


    So is this *Skins* a new game--a golf tournament?? lol  Actually, I'm dying to learn if *skins* really give us: 1) more freedom--*total freedom*--as bannered, 2) the same freedom repackaged and made available in differing flavors to the masses, or 3) introduce subtle cutomizing constraints based upon a more structured template only appearing initially as more freedom by offering variations on a theme?  I know this sounds like techno-babble--and it is!--but inquisitive minds like seanmeister and wave_function should let us know!


    Now: what I'd really like to see on Xanga is a newly featured list of the UNpropped/UNcommented--posts older than a day but less than a week which no one has left any trace of visiting.  I'd bet, I'd just bet that there are enough peeps here on Xanga of goodwill, to regularly check such a list, weigh the posts' merits, and comment and prop as appropriate.  Admit it: the current *Featured Content* list is a skew towards a largely narrow, reoccuring group of popular Xangaroos.  And while that, in itself, isn't bad, you have to realize, that a great many other never-too-popular bloggers eventually just wither away unnoticed, mocked by Xanga's unfullfilled promise of *interactivity*-- a progression of *0*s day after day after day.  And some of these who have left unnoticed or undernoticed have been truly brilliant, but were disenfranchised by virtual exclusion from the *Featured Content * list and a lack of prop/comment socialization.


    So what I'd propose would be two new lists: 1) The totally UNpropped/UNcommented posts older than a day but less than a week, and 2) a Day-Old Featured Content list which ranks and features--for 24 hours--those posts that remained unpropped on the first day of the post, but got some attention thereafter (days 2 through 7)--purportedly due to the institution of the first new list above. (So that if you get listed on list #1 and get propped, you automatically move to list #2 for 24 hours).


    The benefit of the second list would be to give new continuing exposure (24 hours) to those previously underexposed posts which now show accumulative worth in the estimation of other peeps.


    Granted, these *lists* probably have their faults and weaknesses, too, inherited, no doubt, from the whole concept of "propping".  No *featuring* will ever be perfect.  But I'd bet my blog, nonetheless, that these or similar sorts of underdog lists would substantially enhance the retention in Xanga of those teetering along the subliminal margins of noticeability.   And that, from both a vital sociological and vital business perspective, would be a very, very good thing.

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