An Abandoned Website With the Lights Still On

Yes, it was. I'm coming up with guidelines for the community to address this sort of thing since it has happened a couple of times so far. Since I don't have guidelines up yet, I've been letting it slide and letting people just have their fun participating and reminiscing. We are growing really quickly so new members may not always check to see older posts and might just be excited to post and share the thing they remember.

I have been really busy the last week IRL at work because of the snowstorms and cold weather, so I have been kinda minimal as to my engagement on Digg and the community.

I have also been observing to see what kind of issues are arising and thinking about those that might arise with a rapidly growing community at scale and coming up with basic guidelines based around that as to minimize impact to community culture. I'm also seeing how the community is kind of evolving and what members want from The Old Web as it's not all about me or what I necessarily want. This is place for everyone to have a voice. I'm not here to squash fun. I want people to remember fondly and share, but I do need to come up with some basic guidelines as to not clutter the community feed with double posts or posts that may be better suited to other growing communities who may also need some love.

The Old Web is a broad concept with a lot of adjacent subjects, new and old, since the Web is the Web, something about everything and everything about something with tons of history and nostalgia blasted in there, both physical and digital.

Guidelines are coming, I just want to make sure I get most of it right before laying down "The Law" so as not to alienate people. I'm not trying to be a Reddit mod here. I want to be a Digg mod, and to me that means building community while engaging and being fair. I'm new to this, so I'm learning as I go along.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful 😊