I'm not going to disagree with you, I just don't think giving them an easy return is what I want to go about doing. If the other mods override me, then we can do it, but the Journal shouldn't be something just everyone can show up here and use.
Its essentially a tiny sliver of a fan site. If you like a particualr poster, say "swim" and want to read more about her opinions, then you can go to her journal and check them out, troll free with actual discussion going on.
What I don't want it to be, and in some ways its started down this path, is a thread to dump your **** in for god knows what reason, most likely a need for attention.
This is why the idea of multiple journals kinda irks me. it isn't a concept album, its your page, and allowing people to abandon them means
a. the quality will go down because you can always start over
b. theres no need to think before you post because who cares, just PM a mod and get rid of it.
I like the idea of certain failsafes being built in to ensure quality. I'm sympathetic to the idea of 5 years on, the journal you started as a 15 year old just isn't you any more. But we're talking 5 months difference. If people are forced to live with these posts, I'm sure they'll likely think twice before posting.
Journals, and the posts the exist in them require approval for a reason. If you want my unsolicited opinion, too much changes here too quickly, not the people per say, but their names and interests and the like. What gives MB its large edge over some of our competitors is that people know what their getting here, and the other is we're not a spawning bed for 1-post champions to come in and leave their myspace advert all over the place.
I'm writing all of this to encourage deabte, and so people can know where I stand. But over all i want people to know that a lot of work goes into the back field, and decisions that we come to slowly aren't half baked. the MB reader was a long long undertaking and we should treat it as something slightly better than the lounge.
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