Some things were written “officially” on BME/ModBlog today that sort of bugged me… As you know, when I was forced to sell the site, one of the first things that happened is that all of the “history of BME” pages were edited not just to reflect that I was no longer with the site, but they actually completely removed or downplayed my historical role (as well as other staff that had fallen out of favor). I guess it’s not unheard of for a founder to be edited out of history documents, so that’s fine, but it does bother me when outright lies are told… Most recently;
Shannon didn’t post more than Roo and Roo didn’t post more than Jordan
Well, I posted a lot more content; anyone can look at the historical archives and see that. I aimed for 7-10 posts per day on ModBlog. The fact that BME’s traffic/popularity ranking has significantly dropped since I left, while other sites have continued to rise in popularity should show there’s a difference and that people can see it.
…meanwhile poor Phil has been behind the scenes picking the photos for what was originally Jordan’s pet project when he was interning for BME back in the “good ole days”. … PHIL picked out the images for Shannon to post.
Suggesting that ModBlog was somehow “Jordan’s pet project” is completely silly. Until this year under the new management, he rarely posted to the site… I think less than a dozen posts out of the thousands of posts that I made? ModBlog had been running for years on my personal blog (long before Jordan was an intern), mixed in with my personal content, and the shift to a dedicated name was an obvious evolution so as to have the content available to people who didn’t want to read my politics posts, and so as to better promote the site… It just seems so ridiculous to suggest that I was just some puppet under Jordan’s control.
As to Phil picking the images, that’s also totally false, and a lie that I hear way too often. Part of his job was filing interesting submissions into a “potential” folder. I did a second scan of the submission queue to fill it out and catch what was missed. Then from that queue, I selected what was posted and wrote the attached text. His role was to save me some time, but in no way was he responsible for any of the content.
Bodytwo was something that was started to try and redirect traffic away from BME.
Bodytwo was started because I love writing about body modification. When I was locked out of BME, I needed another place to write. Simple as that. If I thought I could write about it now without getting sued, I’d still be writing about it. But unfortunately I don’t have a series of rich boyfriends that I’ve convinced to finance my personal vendettas, so c’est la vie.
Anyway… taking my name out of the history of the site is one thing, but writing a completely false history where others are given credit for my work is BS.
