DM Contributors Grow By 33%!
Decatur Metro | June 16, 2011 | 11:10 amNo, sillies. Andisheh, Daren and Scott haven’t all agreed to increase their body weight by 33% in some weird DM health experiment. (Though that’s a great idea. Note to self…)
This morning, I’m excited to announce we’re adding a new writer to the DM contributors list.
Allison – a Decatur resident for 17+ years , Agnes Scott alumna, local writer/editor and organic gardener – has signed on as our newest contributor starting today! (You may remember her from the Great Decatur Bison Hoax of 2011.)
Be on the lookout for her first post in the next couple hours.
Welcome Allison!
Hey DM,
Not sure if you added Allison b/c of the post asking you where the women contributors were but, if so, that was quick! You deserve applaud for moving so quickly.
Welcome, Allison. Looking forward to your contributions! The bison hoax was great!
Yea! for the female contributor!!
Thank you! I’m glad to be here and honored to be in such luminous company as allay’all.
Allison is a great writer–funny and on point. Welcome, lady!
Thanks, Jane Doe! I’m tickled to be here.
Hey DM-
I read often, but rarely comment. It is fascinating how engaged (and opinionated) some people become. I wonder how the relatively anonymous nature of blogging affects the pressure to be civil.
Do you have statistics on what percentage of posts are by your top 10 voices?
Anonymous blogging does decrease civility, but it’s actually more of a double-edged sword than most acknowledge. Sure we’ve had to battle the uncivil here in the past (and present), but for the most part now we are civil to each other and of other private citizens. But anonymity also simultaneously promotes candor, which is often lacking when you’re face-to-face with someone who might hold a 10-year grudge for disagreeing with them. So it’s a mixed bag.
I don’t have any stats on top commenter comment %s.
And besides, I’ve wanted a pen name all my life. Now I have one. Truth be told, I’m actually the only respondent on this blog. I’m seriously MPD and these are all my pen names.
While I think this is a great thing, and makes an already superior blog even better, I do have one concern; too many topics. For example, there were five topics added today. This is a very active blog, with lots of smart people making excellent comments. I just worry a bit about going through so many stories in a short time, and not giving them a chance to be thoroughly digested and reviewed by your readers.
As I said, this is a positive change, and my worries are admittedly small, but it’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this. This is not, of course, to take away from the value add of the new contributors. All four of them are (along with DM) well respected, quality people who add invaluable experience, wit and knowledge to the blog.
Fewer topics? I could kiss you!
But seriously, I understand where you’re coming from. However, I’ve been known to put up 6 topics a day myself. So I’m happy to cut back and give these other folks a chance to make up the difference!
Now, how could you want to kiss anyone who hates wine AND cheese? Why, it’s downright uncivilized!!!
Well, Nellie finds me oddly endearing, so I’ve got that going for me.
Oh, and DM, remember, you can love your bloggers…you just can’t LOVE your bloggers.
Hi, Token: I don’t think you’ll have to worry about me posting too often and producing a blogclog. I’m going to try to stick to writing only on topics I actually know a little something about, and only when there’s a point to make that hasn’t yet been made. Which limits me considerably from the start!
DM, if you’re going to kiss the guy, please let me know when & where so I can be there with a camera.
Just doing my job.
Thanks, guys and gals. I feel better now, but just a little ill from DM’s offer of a kiss. Not that there’s anything wrong with it…
Thanks for all the great work, interesting stories, and professional blog management.
I have to get my yearbooks out & figure out who Allison is….. class of what at ASC??
Poor Token; picked on by the masses, deserted by his party; befriended only by an odd, lone liberal who has actually spelled women “womyn” in serious discourse and who worships Bernie Sanders.
Hey, Nellie: Let’s just say I was there with the *original* hub . . . barely.
I think we need to make a mockumentary about Token.
If the mockumentary is as funny as “This is Spinal Tap,” count me in!
Original hub? Before my time! But I was there when we still had a curfew and “man on the hall” meant something. Fortunately for me, my RA in Walters was not above throwing keys out the window for bad girls.
Forgot all about that one:
Five Nude Women, Exiting Showers in Inman Hall, Seek Cover Behind Strategically Placed Planters After Woman Shouted, “Man on the Hall!”
Seriously!