It’s true that AAF made the original suggestion that we peel off from dKos. Since I have more of the technical skills, I said I’d host and administer and do the behind-the-scenes work. I was disappointed when he bailed, but it was his decision and I honor that.

You may know that my day job is doing web hosting and design and maintenance. I have been completely slammed since the beginning of the year — everybody needs a website and they need it now!!! There are some days I manage to check in here once or twice. Some days, like yesterday when my internet service was frustratingly flaky and often completely down, I didn’t get online and in here until after 6 pm.

Our daily traffic is not huge and we did lose some visitors and posters after AAF’s exodus, but our traffic is now back to earlier levels. We have a number of people who just come to read. I think it will grow, slowly and naturally, and that’s the way it should grow. We are doing fine in our little corner of the world.

Doc, we love you for caring and for wanting to make things happen. Have patience. It will be as it’s meant to be.

We do not want a replacement.

We like the direction it’s going.

This is not a commercial site. We don’t want it to be a commercial site.

We weren’t abandoned.

And we are far from helpless little things that need protection.

Please, Translator, you have got to cut out the late night drama. You need to come to grips with the fact that we’re very busy, and we’re all asleep or otherwise engaged when you’re posting this stuff.

But both Kate and I and most of the posters here are way too busy for it.

I ask that you not post things here in reaction to AAF. This is a blog for very busy people, and we’re not at all interested in blog drama. Well, except for snickering over it on other blogs (especially the homesteading blogs – omg!).

If you want blogdrama, you’re going to have to take it elsewhere.

Second, it’s Kate’s site, not AAF’s.

Third, AAF is not here because many of the things he posted were copied and pasted from the work of other people without attribution. When told that all content here must be original, he left. We then yanked his privileges as he’d already deleted some of it – the one that got him busted by wheatfree.org, for one.

Fourth, we’re not interested in blogwars and are completely uninterested in making a big deal of it. Both Kate and I are very *very* busy.

We would really prefer you not make a big deal of it. It’s AAF’s life and La Vida Lacavore’s (unknowing) burden to bear.

Fifth, we really, really don’t want six seven posts from anyone every day. It was the wrong direction for the blog when AAF was doing it. It’s the wrong direction now. Please, don’t do that.

And sixth, we’re doing fine. We aren’t at all interested in becoming dKos.

Warmest regards,

Doc.

Doc.

Warmest regards,

Doc

Warmest regards,

Doc