“Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!”
Attention All Readers: Later this month (or maybe even sometime next) I’m doing a purge of Followers that, as far as I can tell, have never been seen since they followed this blog.
I’m keeping anyone I recognize from recent or past conversations (or repeat Likes), either on this blog or elsewhere. (Obviously I’ll keep my lurking IRL friends; y’all are safe from the Purging Angel.)
Point is, if you’ve been silently lurking, and don’t want to get purged, now would be a good time to make your presence known!
Logos con carne 
July 22nd, 2021 at 2:51 pm
Seems like a good time to put this out there, since I’ve been distracted lately, and especially so this week, and I’m not getting any blog posts done, so this can sit out there for a while.
I’ll add that there’s no major negativity behind this on my part. I mostly just want a better sense of who is interested or finds value here. This first round I’ll keep anyone I know at all, but there will eventually be a second round where I’ll purge those who’ve shown no interest in a long time.
And if I do end up taking out any shy lurker who wants to be here, hopefully they’ll just Follow again. (I promise not to say anything.)
July 22nd, 2021 at 2:57 pm
This isn’t the first time I’ve done this. It’s something that’s been nagging at me since the beginning of the year, and with my 10-year anniversary passed and past, now is as good a time as any.
July 23rd, 2021 at 8:21 pm
The funniest thing is the couple of followers who joined after, and apparently without reading, this post. They’ll be among the first to go…
July 25th, 2021 at 11:49 am
It’s starting to look like the Purge will be massive and sweeping…
July 29th, 2021 at 8:32 am
Hmph. Point taken. Let the purge begin!
August 1st, 2021 at 10:17 am
Purge complete! (And see the New Rule below.)
July 23rd, 2021 at 5:47 pm
I don’t know. If someone has never bothered to like or comment even once… If a tree falls in the forest does anyone really care? Cut them down, let ’em fall, death to the dross. They’re not really participating, are they?
July 23rd, 2021 at 8:20 pm
I tend to think so, too, but I’m willing to give shy lurkers some warning and a chance to be included. (I’ve been told many more times than once that I’m “intimidating” — a notion that cracks me up given I see myself as an aging hippie teddy bear.)
August 1st, 2021 at 10:16 am
New Rule: New Follows that don’t include a comment with some sort of introduction get immediately removed. You wanna follow me? I wanna know who you are.
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