A sounding board

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 02 August 2005 08:15.

For some weeks I’ve been putting off the major revamp the site needs. The delay arises purely from the extreme, shekel-counting demands of having a seriously pianistic offspring, I’m afraid. But the GW household now sports two grands side-by-side in our principal room, one of them a concert-quality monster of wondrous power and beauty. I’m thinking about other matters again, and where MR goes from here.

The revamp must do far more than just enliven its general appearance (yes, I know it’s dowdy as it stands!). Content-wise, the plan is to continue the existing MR main page as now, committed to general and political commentary. Accessible from it there will be an OpenMajority thread for non-main board debate on the hoof - whatever you want to talk about, basically. And there will be a specific MajoritySciences page bringing together all the past scientific contributions by Matt, John, JW and JR. I hope in time it will develop into a really worthwhile and “majority-conscious” scientific forum. At least it will have the chance to do so.

But I’m also considering setting up a further addition, and this idea I want to test on you.

It is often said of blogs like MR that we are basically grumpy old white men complaining about the loss of a world that never existed anyway. I’ve seen this sort of comment on the radical right as well as the left. True or not, we can dispense with it quite easily.

All that is required is a board here wholly dedicated to the exploration of positive proposals for the future of European Man. Initially, I’m thinking specifically of all the subject areas - the design, morality, politics, demographics, technical logistics, economics et al - that describe the emergence of a white ethno-state in America. We might call it MajorityAmerica. But ... from where do we find the writers with genuine expertise and specialisms in these areas who are free and willing to contribute to this exercise? That’s the problem.

The alternative would be to run the page as a dedicated open thread. But that would be too conversational, I think, to produce really interesting and informed thinking - and I don’t intend any disrespect to MR commenters there. But I, for one, would defer on, say, the subject (in my case) of returning England to its own people to those with genuine expertise in the specialisms that might involve.

OK, that’s where we are with it right now. Just an idea, though I think quite an important one. Do you have any thoughts about it?

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Comments:

Posted by AD on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:43 | #

The first thing i’d suggest is making comments only allowed to approved users,or at least having to sign in first or something….so that crypto-fascists like myself can’t post hot-headed replies without having the time to consider if i’m actually degrading the board.

Damn,i just did it again.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:01 | #

But then I couldn’t get on the board myself, AD.

Posted by Braveheart on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:40 | #

Dear Guessedworker,

If you think the time has come to expand this initiative (because we by now already get much more readers) then why not?

But from my side (Flanders/the Netherlands/the Afrikaners) I am so happy to find such marvellous inspiration in the actual site.

Also sorry that I have not enough time to contribute more myself.

Flanders,

Posted by Geoff Beck on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:01 | #

What I enjoy about this site is the variety of opinions from many different sources. I enjoy reading about events in Flanders, and Britain, also I enjoy reading about science and biology, but I weary of too much gene talk. I think there is a good balance of topics on MR.

Separating and narrowing the scope would appear unattractive to me. Though, maybe the English are tired of the hot headed Americans dominating their board?

Posted by Geoff Beck on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:28 | #

Also, I’ve come to believe the simple physical architecture of this site is a virture. Recently, I visited a few other related sites and was not pleased with maze of links.

Posted by Kubilai on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:51 | #

May I suggest to have a section off to the side that indicates the recent comments that have been posted and by whom? That way it saves time looking for new comments to different entries.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:02 | #

I’ll have to talk to EE about that one, Kub. But I think it’s a nice design feature. In this post, though, it’s really the content angle that I’m concerned about, specifically whether a page debating what we can do ethnographically will be journalistically feasible and of interest to enough readers.

Posted by Svigor on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:01 | #

I repeat my suggestion of vBulletin software. It isn’t as elegantly simple as what you have here, but it will expand or contract to do whatever you want it to do.

VBulletin is an industry standard, users are familiar with it, and again, it’ll do whatever you want it to do.

Then again, I don’t know what kind of skills are required to run it.

Posted by Amon on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:31 | #

You should widen the middle part of the site, so you don’t have all that empty, wasted area on the right and left sides.

Posted by Svigor on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:52 | #

Nah, I like the column size, it makes for easier reading.

Posted by dan dare on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:06 | #

GW - I enquired earlier about the plans for an MR Forum, and thought you had indicated that was in the works. Is that still the case?

Concerning the ethnographic concept, this seems to be a potentially useful resource, but I am just curious why you would want to base that on US considerations rather than European.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:57 | #

dan,

Initially, a single open thread will serve as a general forum. Quite soon, I hope, we will operate a nest of threads, each under a general heading or proposition which could be generated at a reader’s request, and periodically changed. Development will be incremental but the object is to maximise reader participation and thereby generate as much ideational activity as possible.

Similarly, if we can attract a sufficiently informed and high-grade panel of contributors the ethnographic page can be sectionalised. I think America must be the place to start, though, because the proposal there is the birth of a new nation. A European reclamation is still a great and sacred endeavour, it’s true. But it is hardly as adventurous as the creation of a white ethno-state in the North-West of America!

Posted by John Ray on Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:50 | #

Seems a bit complicated. You already classify posts but does anybody make any use of that?

Posted by Svigor on Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:10 | #

Oh, something just occurred to me. A chat room might be worth considering. I hate them for anything but idle banter normally, but MR has a pretty high level of discussion…

Posted by Luke the Drifter on Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:50 | #

“It is often said of blogs like MR that we are basically grumpy old white men complaining about the loss of a world that never existed anyway.”

It hardly needs to be said that there is a subsantial minority of young white males who are very dissatisfied with the current situation and the direction in which we are headed.

“Old” guys who share this perspective should feel obligated to provide them with affirmation, support, and advice.

The kids need to be directed towards effective argumentation, strategy, tactics and objectives.

The insidious and ubiquitous effect of mass media and public education will otherwise leave them twisting in the wind as relatively isolated iconoclasts.

On another matter, I think the name of this blog encourages complacency and procrastination.

Sure, we’re the majority now, but for how much longer? Most kids aren’t familiar with the projections, and thus are able to avoid confronting the urgency of the problem.

Furthermore, when the time comes that we’re no longer the majority, (God forbid), will we want the then-majority to invoke “majority rights” as a rationale for pursing their interests to our detriment?

Posted by Amon on Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:30 | #

You could also link to this map, which plots where the last 100—or if you’re a registered user, 500-1,000—visitors visited from.

Posted by amon on Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:33 | #

(For some reason, that shows the site that I got it from’s—not MR’s—traffic.)

Posted by amon on Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:37 | #

(Actually, I think you have to pay for the service if you want it to show your site’s traffic…)

Posted by J Richards on Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:16 | #

Guessedworker,

Just use the label “Science Page” for the science section instead of calling it “Science Majority” or “Majority Science” or equivalent. Other than the awkwardness of the latter two labels, it is also the case that many new ideas in science start out with majority opposition or disbelief, even among scientists. Anyway, keep an option for short links to FAQs on the right navigation column. I will work on some FAQs or summaries of various ideas addressed over several different posts, most notably for issues such as the reality of Race and racial differences.

Posted by Fred Scrooby (a Catholic) on Sat, 06 Aug 2005 05:39 | #

“If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.” I like the format here. If you do introduce changes, my only advice would be to go slowly, introducing them little-by-little, not lots all at once but one small step at a time and re-evaluate after each small step to make sure it’s not better to turn back.

It’s a good site as is, though. A very good site. It needs no make-over as far as I’m concerned.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:42 | #

Oops! That “I’m a Catholic” disclaimer after my signature just above was left over from a comment I posted in another thread in which I did a little Catholic-bashing. Its presence here was inadvertant—forgot to take it off.

Posted by Martin Hutchinson on Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:07 | #

“Guesssedworker”, this isn’t working—as far as I’m concerned it’s gone off track, and the “debate” on the Fraser thread further confirms this growing view. Could you e-mail me please separately so we can e-discuss, as your own e-mail links don’t appear to work and system crashes have deleted your e-mail address from my system.

Thanks and best wishes

Martin