Welcome to J Town: a friendly little place in the big bad blogosphere.
A place to hang out, promote posts, check on the weather (and brag about yours!) and waste spend a little time. Bring your music, your news stories, your life stories, (a photo of your town!), and, above all, your sense of humor ... but leave the "pie fights" at the door.
(Our Community Norms can be found below the Orange Entwined Js)
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J Town - The Legend and the Made Up Stuff
One year ago today (at 4:49am CST), the J Town Group hatched. Frantic users had been scrambling to master the Group creation process in order to lock up their preferred names before others poached them ... and created 179 group names the first day.
Why "J Town", you ask? Why not J-Town or JTown? Two reasons: rules and white space.
When creating the name "J-Town", I found that the rules for Groups did not allow for special characters. That meant that A to Z and 0 to 9 were fine but the dash I coveted was not available to me. And because I wanted white space (a visual break to make it easier to recognize and to use my preferred capitalization) the name J Town was chosen. (Fast forward to last week and the announcement that certain special characters will not be allowed as tags and this makes perfect sense ... to geeks).
Since February 13, 2011, J Town has Published and Republished 2,275 diaries making us the 3rd Most Prolific Group on Daily Kos (click Groups then choose "Most Prolific" to see the list). Thank you, J Town Editors and Contributors, for helping make J Town's babbling brook a mighty river.
Oh, and the J? That was because the early townies were jottervillians (jottervillains?) looking for a new place to disrupt hang out when the High Impact Diaries went on hiatus. The J was a link back to the history while together we ventured boldly into the New World Order of DKos 4.
Tomorrow: J Day - The First Post was a Diary
Yesterday: Onetennial Week Begins - The Test Pattern
Onetennial Week FAQ
1. What is a Onetennial?
- Like a Centennial but 99 years sooner so we can celebrate it while we are all here.
2. Why a week?
"All festivities should last a week. Happy things should be big. Bad things should be small." ~ belinda ridgewood
3. When is the actual one year anniversary?
- February 14, 2012 |
Our Community Norms
The guidelines for J Town community norms are from this Markos edict: "New Community Behavior Guidelines (Updated)", revised and extended with:
1. If you link to another person's comment or post, it should be for illumination or entertainment, not to start a fight. If you are not sure, think: WWBD (what would commenter par excellence bubbanomics do?) or WWKS (what would kos say): "You don't need to go after the same people every day to remind them that, yes, you still don't like them."
2. We often recommend someone's comment just to say "Hi, I read your comment!". It does not necessarily mean "Everything you say is something that I can agree with 100%" ... but it might.
3. navajo can do pretty much whatever she wants.
4. Don't post anything that will make princesspat (or anyone else in the whole wide world!) sad.
J Town is you. Join in just for the heck of it.
We are looking for Readers ... people who read posts and want a place to promote them. When you find that gem, comment here and we will send the Judicious J Town Jolly Jeniuses to check it out and Republish here. Or ask to be a Contributor and you can add to the Queue also.
The posts will show up in this list: J Town Babbling Brook
In the comment threads share what you like, don't like, or what you don't want to talk about (we promise not to tell anyone).
Hey, if you publish a post, you can promote it here also! And we will let this guy rescue Republish it.
Choose one of these J Town Republishing Marks ...
Republished in the J Town Babbling Brook
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Republished in the J Town Babbling Brook
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... and please let the writer know you Republished them in J Town.
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