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Originally Posted by Ki
There are just a few things that i've thought about with this idea, because I do think it's a great idea, although it's risen some concerns:
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Okay then, let's look at those and see what we can do...
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- If such a thread is made, there is the issue that people will start to focus more on this type of journal than their own.
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- This presupposes that the people posting will have their own journal already. It's more aimed at those who don't, to encourage them to try. But those who do, well it's up to them what they post. As Urban rightly says, you're not going to divert attention away from your own journal, so you'd naturally keep the best for that. But there might be something you don't feel fits well into your current format that you could write about here. Or not. I don't know. It's a fledgling idea, maybe dead before it even has a chance to try and leave the nest. In the end though, if someone HAD their own journal and found they were spending more time on the "open journal" than their own, isn't that up to them to correct if they want? Nobody's forcing anyone to write anything anywhere: it's up to you where and when you post.
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- Doubling the content could be another issue that arises. Someone could post in this journal than post the same exact thing in their own journal, it would make for a lot of multiple posts.
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I would have thought it was obvious, but I guess not. I'd have to insist/advise that nothing that is posted in the "open journal" (RIP, already?) could or should be reposted in someone's own journal. Otherwise I could just shunt a load of my material from "The Playlist of life" into this new journal, which not only would overload and unbalance the journal in my favour, but would be lazy and completely against the spirit of the thing. It's like, I maintain two journals, but nothing that's reviewed in "Bitesize" appears in my other journal. Well, it might, but I've already noted that, and for the best reasons. These things need to and should be kept separate.
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- The way this journal sounds, it seems like it'd be a free for all topic wise, which is sort of the opposite that people like to perform in their own journals. If that is the case, it seems like it'd be a messy / scrambled looking journal with people's content that doesn't even relate to each other.
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Who says anything has to relate to anything? In my journal you could have a review of say a Springsteen album, followed by a Motorhead one, then a discussion on classical music and finally a dig a Eurovision. It's the very fluid and unconnected nature of a journal, for me, that makes it such fun. It would in fact be boring were everyone to write about the same subject. it would in fact be pointless. The idea about this journal is supposed to be that you could go there and not know what to expect. One member might write about hip-hop in LA, another about Norwegian music, another about dance routines or the best places to see death metal bands. That's what I would be aiming for. Variety. Difference. Total confusion. 
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- Which brings me to my last point, discussion. I'm not sure what type of discussion this type of thing would rise since it would be in the journal section, and all the post would have to be looked at and approved. You would have no way of knowing if your response has been talked about already, which sort of relates to my multiple content issue.
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Doesn't have to elicit any sort of discussion, but if it did, people only have to quote the section/entry they're talking about and you could have multiple conversations going on at once without any real confusion.
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Obviously, I think it could work, but it seems like the demand for such a thing is very minimal in relation to how active the journals have been lately. People like the free will of putting whatever they want in their own journal, i'm not sure creating a journal to put all the content in one place would really help in the long run. Just my two cents.
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Again, that's not what I'm saying. I'm not telling people not to create their own journals, nor advocating that everything be put into this one. I'm just saying that some people might like a "drop-in centre" as it were, where you can call in, write an article, then if you want **** off and never post again, but if you want you can become a regular contributor.
Anyway, as you say it doesn't exactly look like it's getting support, so chances are it won't happen. If it does though, I hope the above answers your questions Ki.
Oh, and another thing: why aren't you wearing your Santa hat? You some sort of Grinch or something?
