Picture Perfect Paranoia

9rules’ New Rules at BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog

You know, looking at the slew of comments left by ex-members, as well as those who have “jumped ship”, I’m having mixed feelings on where 9Rules is heading.

At one point, when they announced the whole “you have been invited to join the 9rules network” invitation, I was post haste interested in joining, as I’ve never been in a “community” as big as 9rules is (or was, I mean). Looking at my partipiation rate at the Animeblogger Forums and the Anime Nano forums made me that interested. I really want in.

Then again, some community do “devolve” into elitist orgs when they list down additional “rules”, such as this:

If you feel you are contributing by your entries being shown only, 9rules is no longer a good fit for you, decline the agreement (or do not respond), please remove the leaf from your site and we will remove your site from displaying on 9rules.

This made me want to spit in their faces and tell them, “Screw you. I suggest you step in our shoes, or better yet, ask yourselves if you have lives.”

Kinda harsh, but really, we have two kinds of personas: the virtual persona you see on the Internet, and the “real persona” wherever you look around.

This is somehow funny or amusing, depending on your perspective, but I seem to recall how “my epenis got deflated” (which is what I said in this post) got hit 3 times. I thought I was the only one living under the rock for some time.

So, as a final word, “A community isn’t measured by standards, but by organic interaction,” (to quip Hung)