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Message from the Admin
I don’t usually post to HillBuzz, preferring to keep my support to the backend, but since my inbox is now filling up with over a dozen reported comments and things are starting to get out of hand, I feel the need to come out here and say something…
HillBuzz was not sold, it remains the property of Kevin DuJan to do with as he wishes. The people maintaining the site right now are personal friends of his that have met him in that crazy place called “The Real World” and helped him build this new site from the ground up using all of his old content. This includes yours truly, who designed the whole thing (including the new logo and Action Bees) and donated nearly $5,000 worth of time to get this site off the ground (which I was glad to do) without an expectation of a return on investment. I considered it my “Action Item” and my way of being able to contribute to the political process by “getting off the couch and doing something.”
Unfortunately, due to personal, health, or other reasons, Kevin has not been back here to check the site, or been in touch with any of us, for quite some time. We do worry about him often, and continue to keep him in our thoughts and welcome him back with open arms if he returns. But this happened rather abruptly, with not a lot of preparation for us as to what we should do about HillBuzz, after having just finished building a full-featured site for him with very expensive hosting requirements (which used to be free on WordPress.com). So, we’ve tried to keep the site alive as best as we can, so there is still a place for all of you to come to read, talk, and contribute, and so the community that had been built would not die. This is at personal expense to us (like, real dollars, writing checks for high-end hosting) as well as a lot of time where we could be actually earning money.
We weren’t expecting any of this to happen, and we were hoping that Kevin would come back soon and we would be able to go back to normal. While I am sure he will be back, in the meantime we are doing the best we can with limited resources, and even more limited experience in actually running a political blog in my case (I’m a developer and a designer, not a pundit).
Also I just want to clarify- we only have two or three SuperAdministrators on this site, Kevin (obviously) and myself (as the person who built and fixes it) are on that list. We also have many other people who are Contributors- they can write or edit their own posts, but have no other administrative abilities such as comment moderation or the ability to tweak anything on the backend.
So, the conspiracy theories can stop. There’s no sense in dividing factions here- if you don’t like what is being covered or think you can do better, please send in a ground report or guest blog post! We’d love to be able to feature a more wide variety of topics, provided they fit with the rules governing the site and the commenting (which Kevin wrote himself).
