No, I can elaborate on that last paragraph. I looked at BB for years thinking that some of the posts were there to encourage commentary from the crowd. They are usually posts about something controversial presented without comment. Cory, especially, likes to make posts like that. My feeling was that things were presented to elicit a critical discussion. Frequently commenters would ask Cory why he supported such a thing and I always thought he wasn’t. He was asking for a consensus to be formed or explored. This is why I loved BB. Smart people making contributions to the culture in the spirit of open discussion and democratic principles.
Now it seems like many other blogs. A platform for a select group to push their individual agendas. Disagreement and critical inquiry for the basement dwellers over on the forum. Everything has its useful life cycle. Ambition is often the culprit behind walls going up.
I will continue to watch with curiosity to see what happens next. So there is that.
