Frank Kogan

It might have made the conversation better for those already involved in it, but I think it made it more difficult to enter. Back in the day I tried to answer Dave when he asked why more random Googlers didn't join Rolling Teenpop; I argued that the style of discussion made it somewhat uninviting, but I think I've changed my mind, because now I agree with something Dave said:

(2) My limited experience with MySpacers and googlers is that a lot of them have a passion and perspective that other people on the thread -- precisely because they're so darn clever -- don't have. Like, I've gotten schooled numerous times by Aly and AJ fans who basically think I'm a paranoid jerk (and, funny thing, they're RIGHT!). So I'd like to see, f'rinstance, some of them post more than once in my comments, and in a post that isn't from 2005, so that I can respond to them and we can have a conversation. This could happen in small doses on, say, a comment thread, though the likelihood of it happening on Rolling Teenpop is slim because RT is so hard to parse even when you know what the heck it is. That's really just a format thing, though.