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Wow.
38! I must admit that I did not expect 38 bloggers to participate in the first edition of e[lust]. Perhaps since the concept is 4 years old (Sugasm started in 2005) I shouldn’t be surprised – but nonetheless I am.
When I sat down to really think about all that is involved in getting each digest out I knew that it would be hard work. Not so much time-consuming work, because I put out a call for people to help and the response was amazing, but hard work because of my ADD and my ability to fuck-up even the simplest of tasks at times. Did I forget this? Did I do that? There’s 38 links there….are they all accurate? No repeats? etc etc ad naseum. Rules that I forgot, rules that I decided to change, guidelines that I didn’t make clear, assumptions I shouldn’t have assumed….these are the hard things I didn’t count on. So while the first edition did not go smoothly….it still went. It’s here! Please visit the lovely assistants who helped out with this edition, they’re over there in a special category in the sidebar.
I would love feedback if you have it – the site layout, the guidelines, etc. One informal poll that I put out to Twitter was wondering if participants should be able to vote for their own submissions in the voting for Top Three. My inclination is no – I never voted for my own when participating in Sugasm, but I don’t recall if that was specified or not. If I automatically gave everyone a vote because voting for oneself is allowed – then everyone is still just as equal as they were in the beginning. If you have a opinion with a good reason to the contrary, please speak up! I am considering going a different route with the voting, and my thoughts are down there in that poll. I’ll let it ruminate for an edition or two and see what people think.
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I started this project for many reasons but the biggest is that Sugasm was good exposure for new and established blogs alike. Some bloggers are going to say “I could give hang if I have 500 readers or 5″. To that I say: Why talk if no one is listening? I changed a few guidelines that Sugasm had and kept many others. But I really want to know YOUR thoughts – as a reader or as a participant. I know of a few people – some participating in this edition and some still waiting to see what’ll happen – who felt that Sugasm was very “clique -y”. If so, how does one prevent that? My attempt was by including people in the e-vite and following them on Twitter regardless of my personal knowledge or opinion of them. Looking at the first edition I can see a variety of bloggers and that makes me happy. I hope I can make this “borderless” as much as possible.
Thanks to all who were a part of this!
Your Editor,
It looks amazing to me! You should be very proud :)
It’s kind of inevitable that things will get cliquey, there’s only a limited amount of sex bloggers, and an even more limited amount that post on a regular basis and want to be involved in something like this. I think you’re doing everything right!
I really like the site design, nice and clean and pwetty :) The featured HNT is a good idea too :)
xxxxx
I quite like the site design and layout so far. It’s clean and easy to read, which is *not*, unfortunately, something that can be said about a lot of “sex blogs”. I wish a few people would take a few cues from well-designed sites. Red text on a black background is hard to read, dammit!
I agree with you that we shouldn’t be voting for ourselves. I never did when submitting my stuff to Sugasm.
Thanks again for spearheading this effort! I hope it gets the same kind of attention that Sugasm did.
– PB
1. I love Sugasm and I loved the new e-lust. Thank you!
2. I NEVER participated in either, because of the whore-dom factor, the competitiveness, and the clique-y ness. To me, the concept is weird. I don’t like that people submit and then have to post a list on their own site, and I hate having to click all over the web to get to read what they wrote. Isn’t there a way to gather their submissions in a central place (like an e-mag)? I know it’s prolly a bit late for that now, and I’m not sure why I’m suggesting it. It’s just that I’d far prefer to read and occasionally participate in a free weekly version of F/G/T than to mess with the listy-thingy.
Sera – well yes, it’s more than a bit late because I already bought the domain! lol
As you can see a lot are willing to do list-posting, for one central reason: exposure. If the list were just here on this site I’d have to find a way to bring in all the bloggers and all their readers to come HERE to look at the list of amazing posts. Instead, you submit and 38 blogs that are not your own have a link to a post of yours. I can tell you that I know I have gotten a large number of loyal readers from Sugasm, good *relevant* traffic increases, and I have also in turn found many great blogs that I didn’t know about.
There already are “e-mag” type things out there for sex bloggers, I’ve joined in a few and can tell you quite frankly that they don’t end up doing much for me. This type of thing does.
I understand that some bloggers don’t want to sully up their pages with a long ungainly list. But it’s only once ever other week, you can use the “read more” tag after a certain point, and its beneficial to you and many other bloggers. However in the end, not everyone will participate and that is fine.
PB – I do so agree with you, nothing is worse than reading a blog, looking away and seeing funky colors for a few minutes, lol
Amy – Thank you :))
I echo what others have said–love the look and feel of the new site. Great job on your first edition, I hope that it continues to grow!
Jade
Nice work Lilly. Congratulations on getting it out.
As a note, the Sugasm DID have a rule that you couldn’t vote for your own post. I can’t remember where it was stated, but I do remember seeing it at some stage.
I have no idea what the ‘cliquey’ thing is. People either participate or not. Given there is no judgement that excludes those not in the ‘in-crowd’ (that is, all submissions get posted), it seems an odd statement.
Ferns
Congratulatons! I think you have takern on a magnificent task that is very much needed and am happy to help out as much as I can.
Long live e lust!
It’s looking really good. Well Done! Sorry, been a bit out of the loop this week and this may continue for a week or so but I will try to fit in a slot to lend a hand asap x