I went over to the new site for Jason (not his official site). This is the one that replaced ddb (daydreamingboy.com) I was very please to read a wise and good-hearted post that Kali (the administrator there) wrote. I am quoting parts of her post from there, in which she attempts to re-define how the site needs to move from cliquish to welcoming:
“This is a new site the rules are similar but much more to my liking much more lenient! If the filter doesn’t catch a word~ I don’t care. Droolz do have rulez…but feel free to if it’s within reason (just please don’t be FANatical). I love you ladies it’s the reason I’m here, the reason the sites here. Please do yourself and Jason proud we used to be the most welcoming open-minded fanbase on AI~ We’ve now become a cliquish bunch of ‘entitled’ fans…WE will go backwards and welcome all. I expect each dreadhead that see’s a new member listed on the front page to send em a welcoming pm…it someone posts in your thread acknowledge them…I do not want to be a part of a negative group…Jason and his dreadheads have lost many fans…that is a shame…”
So, while I admire the positive spirit of Kali’s post. I guess I am a little doubtful .Many of us left because of the increasing division on ddb (daydreamingboy.com). I hope that Kali’s words have real punch behind them. If so, then this site deserves to be promoted and visited.
If you have had bad experiences at ddb but find a new spirit at the new site, please share your experiences. Also, the reverse.
Good job Kali. Your post was a great first step in the healing of the fan base. Too bad so many fans were chased away before the need for this turnaround was recognized.
For what it’s worth,
How can you measure a fan base when there are fans who are not committed to the hobby of blogging?
I have Google set to search out Jason Castro so I keep up to date. I am not a member of his MySpace. Until Jason reflects behavior that suggests a personality change – I’m a fan. News about people, relatives around him isn’t relevent – Jason lives in the real world: fallible people R us. Analyzing the entire landscape from my Google search engine, there is only one website that delights in mean-spirited behavior, and Jason is as a topic from time to time. I am sure they expect me to remember their website, but I can’t, because it doesn’t interest me. I think “What a sad way to enjoy living a life!” and move on.
When I was part of a forum, the main forum for jason, there were 3000 plus people signed up. Towards the end of the tour, after their was infighting on the boards and disgust with the castro cash grab the fans trickled down to nothing. Now before you go how do you know? I was there AND you can see how many people were logged in at any given time. There is hardly anyone on any of his sites today. People were leaving the fan sites (which play a big role in keeping fans involved) in droves. And the reduction of fans happened exactly as I have explained in my earlier posts. They left in correlation with significant things that were happening.
So you don’t do blogs…well you don’t do forums either. So don’t start lecturing on things you know nothing about.
I designed this blog for people to speak freely about ISSUES. Those of you who do nothing but leave personal attacks on me and do not address THE ISSUE will have your comments deleted. If you don’t like me stay away…but I will not allow the same treatment of me on here as happened in the forums. You want to do that to someone…go back there.
I left those for exactly this reason. The inability to speak the truth, as one sees it, without being personally attacked.
Go back to the forums where you are loved.
This site is for discussion not attacks on me.
And should anyone be stupid enough to say I am the one attacking…BS…I responded to personal attacks with an attack. I won’t have to do that anymore. I will just delete your off topic attacks.