If you cannot find the excerpt box, you can turn it on by going to the Screen Options tab at the top right hand corner of the screen, right under your screen name.
Open the Screen Options and make sure the Excerpts is checked off. If it is not checked off, click on the box to turn it on. You should only have to do this once. Note that all of the options in the Screen Options Box must be turned on in order for the system to operate properly.
Also note that the Excerpt box may pop up in the right hand column or underneath the text entry window, so look for it in both places.
12/05/2019 @ 12:10 pm
It won’t happen. Maybe a dozen people show up here is my guess. Some have started and stopped. It’s nothing like previous sites.
I’m more of the mind by now to think global, act local and donate directly to campaigns.
Blogging is mostly unimportant to the vast majority of Americans.
That’s why when you have stated that silence is not an option, that I felt this is not much different than silence.
12/05/2019 @ 1:41 pm
Why? The population here is tiny and not growing.The only people blogging actual posts with any regularity are you and Robish. In the course of a week, how many people appear here to either comment or post? I doubt the number is as high as ten, including Alan. As for me, I”m not sure I’d even worry about saving what I’ve written here because I don’t think my output here has been all that interesting. Maybe I’ll go over and look at it to check but I suspect most interesting posts are actually reposts from earlier work.
12/05/2019 @ 3:07 pm
First of all, Art is right. There isn’t enough traffic (around 200 hits a day on average) and therefore no revenue.
I have also removed advertising from the home page to clean up the “first impression” people get from the home page. We are basically talking to ourselves here.
The site was a success. The marketing failed because I have no money to market. Now that WT:Social has appeared, there’s really no niche left for Blindlesnitch.
This experiment depended upon the contributors going out onto the web and encouraging their personal networks to visit Bindle and give it a try. Unfortunately, the site is still too complicated for novices to handle…and any further dumbing down is simply not in my skill set.
As far as actual revenues are concerned, I believe we have around $150 sitting in our Google account, but it would cost us more to set up the corporation to receive the funds than there is in the account, which means that the funds would accrue to me or to Robert personally. Most of that money was accrued before you came on board.
The fact that the site exists at all was a major accomplishment but it was delusional to believe that people actually wanted to recreate Open Salon. They actually have more fun mourning the passing of OS rather than trying to recreate it.
Facebook appears to give people what they want, an appreciative audience for a minimal amount of effort.
I will keep Bindlesnitch open for the foreseeable future but when I have to renew the hosting agreement, I may ask for contributions to cover that cost if Robert and I don’t feel like we can carry it. I think it is around $400 a year or less.
12/05/2019 @ 8:58 pm
Everything stated in these comments is true…Sad and disheartening but true nonetheless…
That said, I would like for it to be known that I’m no quitter…
I’ll be here, one way or the other, when the lights go out…
Facebook is full of mindless noise and garbage…
Twitter went from 140 characters to 280 characters. I suppose that is to give the more enlightened users ample room to express themselves…
Talk about your single sentence posts…
Users like Trump now have more space in which to chat and exchange lies, half truths, and conspiracy theories…
12/06/2019 @ 11:00 am
Silence is silence!
I’d rather be the
lone voice in the wilderness, or the only candle in the dark than succumb or acquiesce to the easy, and feckless: “No one is listening, or paying attention, so why bother.”
There’s a great deal to be said for that one dissenting opinion and the jurist that expresses it….
It takes only one match to start a fire…
AND
“If everyone lit just one little candle…”