I’m the guy charged with putting together the next trip (details coming) for Compassion – a recruiter I suppose – and getting the word out about Compassion on blogs of all shapes and sizes. I just started. We just launched http://www.CompassionBloggers.com as a first step. All that to say, I’d love to hear any advise you and your readers have to offer me/us. All this is new and we’re learning. Send any thoughts my way at contact@compassionbloggers.com

Thanks again for the public encouragement.

-Shaun

Your point about the debate between full text feeds vs. partial text feeds is fair — it does seem to be pretty evenly divided between the two camps. I happen to have fallen in the camp that likes full posts. I’ll look forward to seeing the modified posts in my reader, though.

And the truth is, I love the ground rules for commenting that you’ve laid out, especially in their new revised form. They’re easy to read and make a lot of sense.

Really looking forward to tracking with you on your blogging journey.

Just last night I modified the amount of each post that shows up in the feed. And we aren’t necessarily married to a summary feed. We’ve adopted it, not because of ad revenue (We don’t have ads on the site), but because of individual preferences.

For every person that prefers the full feed, there’s someone that prefers the summary. However, we’re still going back and forth over this.

Even though the ground rules said a commenter should use first and last name, it also said comments “may” be deleted if the rules weren’t followed.

The truth is that we weren’t “enforcing” that rule. It was a remnant of an early draft of the text. I have updated the page.

http://blog.compassion.com/ground-rules-for-leaving-comments-on-the-compassion-blog/