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Rant III - The Cranky Webmaster Disorder

Posted: February 22, 2005 @ 04:20 AM EST | Filed Under: Rant

Okay. So here it is. You run a site. You’re the webmaster. By God, the thing is great. You love it. You put your heart, and soul, and time and effort into it. You’re the webmaster.

You’re the webmaster.

I hate this. You see these webmasters, they create beautiful things, whether it be huge sites, like LiveJournal or Journalspace, or even blogs (though it happens rarely on blogs), and they start out with the best intentions of being there for the users, and being active within the community and everything else that goes on in their little corner of the web. Then… They stop. They seclude themselves from everything and everyone else. They seclude themselves from the friends they had made through this site. They seclude themselves from people trying to help them out with this site (if applicable). So I’m giving it a name, and it’s the ever-lasting PMS of webmasters– unless the webmaster is a woman, than… well… I don’t know. I’m going to call it the Cranky Webmaster Disorder. And so it shall be known.

Personally, my philosophy is that if you take the time to make a site, then be there. Be active. Be a part of your site. So in as much: Hi. My name is Joey Brooks. And I’m the Webmaster of Milk Carton Designs. How may I be of service?

(Now how hard was that?)