Coalition of the Dark Side Is Kaput
I kind of figured it was only a matter of time before Michele, having already pulled the plug on A Small Victory, would write off Coalition of the Dark Side. She did so Friday with a little push from me and TC. I griped that comments were down and that there was no one to fix the problem since Michele had seemed to abandon the site. That provoked a rant from TC, which provoked a harsh rebuke from Michele, who, fed up with TC's nonesense, deleted all authors but herself. A bit of overreaction, if you ask me, since she's chiefly pissed at TC. She could have yanked his privileges only rather than punishing us all, but you know, with comments off line anyway, the site was in effect defunct already.
Now I will need to do my posting about the Yankees here, unless I start my own Pinstripe blog. In the meantime, my first gripe is that everyone in the starting staff, except Moose, sucks, and I'd be shocked to see the Yanks go far this year.
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What strikes me about the whole thing is that people were happy enough to bitch about what Michele was or wasn't doing, but no one offered to help her out or take on the site admin work themselves. She was nice enough to continue to let people post to a site that she was funding, but no one was willing to offer up their own services. Just complain. I don't blame her one bit for shutting the site down completely.
Posted by: Lesley | June 10, 2006 08:42 AM
Thanks Lesley. You hit the nail on the head, really. I was perfectly willing to as AWOL, I got a bilet the site stay and let whoever stayed around have fun with it. But when there was more than one post bashing me, and no one had the decency to email me first and ask what was going on or if they could do anything to help with the maintainence of the site while I while I was AWOL, I got a bit pissed off.
I had emailed TC to let him know why the comments were down. I assumed he would let the others know. And after more than one post from him talking crap about me, I decided that I really did not have to sit there and host a site where people were treating me that way. So now the site is done. Thanks Jon and Lesley for the support you gave to the Darkside while it existed.
Posted by: michele | June 10, 2006 01:18 PM
Michele - sorry for bashing you. I would actually have e-mailed you if I had your e-mail address. I went to your new site looking for it and didn't find it. That's when I resorted to the poorly phrased post.
Posted by: Jon | June 10, 2006 05:26 PM
Actually, I would gladly take the site over from you Michele and pay whatever scratch is required for the hosting fees.
Posted by: Jon | June 10, 2006 05:40 PM