Hello all. Because of certain things I need to take care of, I’ve been away from the computer a lot more than typical (I often have GNXP and my gmail account in two tabs on Firefox while I’m coding, so I normally monitor the blog when I’m not posting). A week ago I said no political posts until Nov. 15th. I’ve already deleted a very innocuous election related post. I’ve just veoted another one. I know that many of the posters to GNXP have lots of great commentary they could offer on 11/02/2004. I even have an opinion or two I might be willing to offer up. Nevertheless, at least for now, I am going to be a fascist about this and just keep a lid on it. Many of you have your own blogs where you can talk about politics. There are also one thousand political blogs out there hitting on all cylinders.
Politics is interested and addictive, there is a reason that people become “political junkies.” Man is a political animal. The big political blogs have traffic about 2 orders of magnitude above GNXP. Still, I don’t really care, this is a hobby, and what trivial costs there are, I pay for, so I don’t have an incentive to increase traffic. Frankly, the comment boards are at a happy median (barely) between being dead and overloaded with trolls.
Anyway, just a minor reiteration. That doesn’t mean all political posts are off limits. But I reserve the right to delete anything that I think might be too juicy and detract from the more esoteric quality of this blog. I’m not looking for an “Instalaunch,” a reader who is wanting the latest insights are on the War on Terror or wants to laugh about the latest Bushism.
Addendum: I am considering taking time out to post a ‘GNXP style & content guideline’ in the near future so my fascism seems less arbitrary. Kind of sucks because this is the kind of thing that I told GC I really didn’t want to be part of when I joined a group blog 2.5 years ago. That’s life.
Posted by razib at 11:16 PM