In what could be the final nail in the coffin ‘over there’ (yes i know most folks here have already wisely sailed on) today i/everyone? are not allowed to comment or even “heart” an article. so it goes… (mumbles a fossilized one who knew BoingBoing back when twas but a ‘zine’)
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That seems to have been a temporary situation. I just did both.
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AFAIK that happens few times a week.
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Ah yeah, Bari Weiss, a Jewish lesbian who “portrays herself” as “left-leaning” because she doesn’t want to deal with the cognitive dissonance of admitting that her politics have more in common with neo-Nazis (and other far-right groups who don’t want her to exist) than the actual left…
She’s only “left-leaning” in that being a lesbian, she’s not (entirely) homophobic, and being Jewish, she’s not anti-Semitic. In terms of everything else, though…
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The point of the ‘publisher’ is to provide an admin platform for collecting monetary subscriptions and redistributing the income to the actual publishers using the platform (for that is all it is).
Which, clever people as they are, the BB editorial team could have done themselves, I suspect. (Which many of us said we would be very ok with - paying a subscription.) I also suspect that SubStack offered a golden hello, which may have made a difference.
As to the lack of chat or community over there, I doubt it has any financial impact. Whether there is lots or little chat below the line probably makes little difference to the number of subscribers or subscription revenues.
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And this arrived in my inbox this evening. A sad reminder of better times, and the last such that we’ll see.
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Frankly, I’m happier here… 
… might be just me.
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Oh, I’m happier here, now, but there’s no denying there were some good times over there even if those were well before they dumped an entire community with zero thought. (But that might just be me, too.)
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I don’t know that’s entirely fair. There were people who put a lot of thought into it, and brought their own empathy and expertise.
Just not the people who made the decision.
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I didn’t have anyone in mind other than those who made the decision (to dump the community).
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that’s weird. never expected to make anyone’s year-end list. startling to see my handle in that mix.
i need a hobby…
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Enriching people’s lives with keybilly wisdom and humor seems like a legit hobby.
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Right? Me too… I’m sure I’m on that list, but I anonymized, so am not sure which anon I am…
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i figured you to be one of the top “anons” in that list.
see you tomorrow, same time, same channel?
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You can’t comment on the year-end review but you can still summarize it with AI!
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I can tell you you’re not anon94804983, because it is I.
I went to a thread I knew I’d posted on and found one of my comments I recognized. That’s how I figured out which anon I am.
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Thanks! I meant to write it down when I anonymized, but don’t think I ever did… I could go figure out which I am, but I’m not sure I can be arsed!
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I certainly can’t be arsed. After the way we were treated, I’ve never even been to the Nazi Bar version of BB.
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