St. Blogs Confidential - Update: Blog Coups

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Five months ago in my role as armchair investigative reporter I looked at the seamy underbelly of St. Blogs and turned up many scandalous facts in this post.

This exposure has not stopped the scandalous activity in this parish, I now turn my attention to blog coups. Blog coups is a phenomenon where group blogs get dominated by one member.

The blog Christus Victor lists four people as members of this group blog, but only Christine seems to now post. Was their a midnight coup and why have we never heard form the other posters again. They did not start new blogs and seemed to have disappeared. Looking though the archives I determined their disappearance happened April.

Another blog Whys Guys has Mark a Catholic and Rich an atheist two physics students at Cornell. Soon after launching the blog Rich stopped posting. Now their seems to be a new poster a Catholic named Joseph.

In the early days of Catholic Light, brothers Steve and John Schultz both posted on this site. Steve disappeared and was later replaced by a motley crew of other Catholic bloggers.

Now I am sure that they would want us to believe that the other posters had other time commitments or tired of blogging, but is that the truth? supposedly Steve Shultz has gone on to the seminary, but is that the real story. Has anybody actually seen any of these bloggers lately.

Now there are a couple possible scenarios and I will look first at Christus Victor. This blog was a mixture Protestant/Catholic blog and I wonder if there just might have been one two many Martin Luther jokes or reformation celebrations and Christine in a fit of rage done them in during a heated battle. I am also suspicion of her name. Wasn't Christine the name of the demonic infused car in a Stephen King novel? Coincidence? I wonder.

You can also imagine the heated discussions with those two students at Whys Guys about the existence of God. Now possibly this coup involved murder but I also wonder if Rich really ever truly existed. Possibly Mark has a split personality and in temptations of faith battles his atheistic personality. Mark seems to have won out for now but he bears watching. Now with the addition of Joseph we will just have to wait and see if he a real person separate from Mark. I imagine he added another person just to keep the pluralistic Guys for Wise Guys.

Now there have been multi-person coup at HMS Blog before when Greg Popcak was out of town. In reality a coup has already taken place with Kevin Miller who out posts everyone else a 100 to 1.

So if any of you missing bloggers are still alive I would appreciate you to email me a picture of yourself with todays newspaper. Please no crappy sounding audio tapes like Bin Laden's.

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He's onto us! from Catholic Light on July 29, 2003 6:56 PM

The seamy underbelly of St. Blog's is exposed by Jeff Miller: he says that some people listed as participants in group blogs rarely or never post. Obviously a case for some truth-in-labeling enforcement, eh?... Read More

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But, never having met them or seen "before" pictures of these MIAs, how will you know it's really them...?

Maybe the group blogs would benefit from group therapy.

Curses! If it weren't for you, I never would've been caught!

Seriously, though, Rich exists but felt out of place on what he felt had become an all-Catholic, all the time blog. We still discuss religion in private, but he doesn't post anymore. I sent him this link, and he may comment himself...

Joseph, though, is merely a commenter. I am not sure of the future direction of my blog, but it may change forms to reflect my Richless (would that be poor?) future sometime soon.

PS
At Touchstone's Mere Commenta, David Mills does over 90% of the posting

By the way, your exposé has galvanized change at whys guys, now whys guy ...

Catholic Light may have lost a co-founder, but it produced a seminarian!

As for the "motley" people who replaced Steve Schultz, one of them has an outrageously lame excuse for not posting lately. (See the third comment.)


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