A community on the edge
Long time member at WmW, a large, organized, well-known collection of fora about the world of search engines mostly, with a few nods to the “browser wars”, css from a mainstream perspective, etc. - I actually joined 4/19/2003 but had been lurking and reading there since about mid-2001. I’ve been a “supporter” since May of 2004.
One of the many attractions there was the active “sub-community” which posted in “Foo” - the place for the oddball, that didn’t have a home elsewhere, the place where you threw a fit if you had a bad day, or where you got to “glow” a little when a family member did something great…. and where we played silly word games among other things.
Well, the powers that be decided folks had too much fun there I guess - a simple post by a nice man in London, to which I replied in a couple of sentences, got locked as being “off topic” etc. - here’s a link to that one; and here’s a link to the “Foo hit the fan” thread posted by mivox, another long time member of WmW.
Community is important. We all live in the real world, where the off-topic oddball thread is what gets us through a dismal day with sanity retained. Seriously shortsighted…. to quote one of my favorite movies ever: BIG mistake. HUGE.
