I’m not a real CSS junkie but I am getting better understanding of it now… And that is reflected in part by some changes I am developing for Boltsmag… I’ve created a site specifically for CSS Development (I will likely use it for this site sometime) where I have been tinkering away. I’m not quite done yet but hopefully soon.

Edit: WOW, with how well the new site has transfered and how comfortable I am getting with the CSS, I am goign to have to work on revamping Der Stonegauge now…. It’s high time I fixed this shit up….

Toe is at it again.

The great sage and creative webmaster, known for such web sites as GWBush04.com, RedTideNews.com and the now defunct KilltheWeb.com satire sites, has a new political blog up and running…

For all of you who couldn’t guess where Toe falls on the political map, just check the site name and take a guess: The Blue Donkey…

What does it take for people to realize that the company you are loyal to is not loyal to you?

You are just a number, you are just a member, you are just a person that is defining their bottom line. To quote Tyler Durden, “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.” Not in the face of corporations, you aren’t…

….Or if you are a member of FanHome.com

Now, let me address something I did on Monday Night – I emailed moderators who I thought were my friends, who I thought were people who trusted me and who I thought understood how bad the situation on FanHome has gotten. I used certain features on FanHome to contact these people and in fact I abused the system in order to “spam.” That was wrong.

Not as wrong as what people on FanHome are putting up with, have been putting up with, and continue to put up.

In December I had some of my friends throw up their hands in disgust and annoyance due to lack-of-action and incorrect conclusions drawn by certain Administrators on FanHome. This administrator, who hadn’t hung out and dealt with moderators with anything other than corny, over wordy statements the past 2 years; went ahead and attacked some people who I have dealt with, worked with, talked to, and have become friends with over time. Dear friends with.

And I don’t like anyone fucking with my friends.

So FanHome is selling itself out one forum at a time right now, ruining the New York Mets baseball forum first, now the Chicago Cub forum… Pissing some people off. I contacted the moderators with an alternate site as a chance to show my loyalty to them, even if that sounds twisted. I’m not looking to administrate this new site very long, I’m not interested in doing more than talking on a web-forum that I can actually use without technical flaws left and right…

Of course, some people are more loyal to the FanHome brand than myself. Some people are in denial things are wrong with FanHome, or that Administration may be fabricating what they tell people. They see me as the enemy now because I spammed the site. Fine, be that way. Then again, I ran the site for 2 years and I made FanHome my #1 priority in life. I made you guys my friends and I care about you whether you realize it or not… If you can’t see that I’m trying to reach out to you before the ship sinks, well… That’s your loss, I’m afraid. If you don’t see I’m offering an alternative to the place you call home because the alternative works (and someone you know is involved with the alternative), as compared to your current… well, that’s your choice.

Well, I finally did it. I’m done with FanHome. I resigned.

I haven’t talked about FanHome much on here in recent weeks or ever explained how I got attached to the site in the first place. I’ll correct that lack of knowledge right now.

Back in 1999, I was running Abolish the Designated Hitter (as I still am) and I got invited to join Baseballboards.com as an affiliate in November of that year. I jumped on it because I wanted to see if I could get everyone’s attention on the matter of the DH… Which didn’t happen.

I wasn’t immediately drawn into baseballboards.com – it happened in March of 2000 because of how putrid the Tampa Bay Devil Rays had made themselves in the off season that only I could seemingly see. I came onto the site and I ended up taking a deep swim in discussing baseball. The site founder, Kevin Cabral, launched Hockey, Football and Hoopsboards.com soon after Baseballboards.com and I found myself wanting to further promote these boards because I liked the layout and the intelligence of the communities. Kevin ended up hiring me to find affiliates and do some other stuff for the sites.

I resigned from that post shortly before FanHome.com was launched – which combined Baseballboards.com with hoopsboards.com, hockeyboards.com and footballboards.com – a major breakthrough. I loved the new concept and thought it was a money maker. However it seems I was more committed to the site than Kevin was over the first year of FanHome’s existence. And surely that’s what it felt like. I ended up doing much of the administrating on the site by myself and being lead on with the future of FanHome and my “ownership stake” in the site.

I had a measly 3 percentage points of equity in the site while I did the majority of the work. On top of it, these 3 percentage points of equity was never given to me in writing.

Now FanHome has joined The Insiders and I am disgusted by a lot of how FanHome has changed for the worse technically and administratively. We’ve relied on volunteers during the existence of the site and we are not giving thanks to them in how we’ve treated them since the switch. Add to it that the new site layout doesn’t even help us run our site and you’ve got more of a headache than a sports message board community.

I got burned out a while ago because of the nit-picking and some shitty attitudes on FanHome that I had to deal with day in and day out, so I was already on the way out during this past summer when I found out about the Insiders (which I had bad feelings about to begin with) and the change with that.

I could keep writing and actually find something worth saying besides what I have written above but alas – I’m just too tired to do that.