Blogger software

I've sent the blogger schematic info to some of the bloggers and journalists who were interested enough to take a look and several of them are down on the probation system as well as the feature whereby one can only invite other bloggers after getting a certain amount of karma (the latter of which I didn't notice until I sent it out, having not paid as close attention as I should have). I've had those same concerns about the probation system, of course, and having seen that some of the other bloggers (and both of the journalists) share those concerns, we've definitely got to scrap it. If for some reason we decide later that such a system would benefit the network more than it would stymie it, we can always implement it in an update or what have you. As for the karma-based invitation system, several people had similar reactions, and I'm now concerned that such a seemingly minor adaptation as that could have a large impact on the nature of the resulting network, which is something we need to stay from until later on when we've seen how the network grows and what problems will end up needing to be address through tweaks of this sort. We can discuss further tomorrow night if this means that we have to change anything else or if there might be any other technical tweaks that will need to be made by virtue of losing the probation and karma systems.