I’ve reprinted the message here:
Zan,
This is a personal request. Among the four of you (B, 2Ds) you are the most visible person. Please can you get back up in the front page on the writer rankings and stay there. It is important for the site and for people like us who need to show what is quality.
This is not just a request, it is more than that. Though I don’t have a right with regards to BR to give you an order, as a friend I can certainly do so, and if I have to plead with you, request you, yell at you, I will do it.
It seems like you’ve become a very selective writer, no way! The whole point of the site, in a back ended way is that you write, so please could you stop being just an owner, site admin, Community GM and just be a writer.
Don the robes Z, as that is no mean talent to shelve and I need you to show the way.
Cheers,
Sar
This truly struck me. I couldn't sleep all of Monday night.
My inclination wasn’t to whip up a new MLB history piece. That may have been Sarah’s intention, but my thoughts were, in fact, in a different place entirely.
I spent a long time reflecting on the entity that is Bleacher Report, and finally recognized that I’ve been getting the sense more and more of a divide growing between the Company and the Community. Sometimes it seems like the two operate in completely separate silos from one another.
This didn’t use to be the case—and I actually always thought of it as something that set Bleacher Report apart from other online communities.
Once upon a time, I made it my business to get to know each and every writer on the site. In those days, keeping the Founders up to speed with the pulse of the Community was easy enough, and letting the Community know where the four of us saw things heading was equally simple.
After all: we were all just writers at that point.
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