I thought it’s a good time to reintroduce cVillain to all of our new readers. I know it’s been a while since we’ve done the introspective, psycho-analysis stuff, but considering the amount of new commentary, new readers and new faces at our parties, it’s probably a good idea to try to get everything in one little nutshell.
We started the site a little over a year ago. Lilith and I decided it would be an exciting experiment to mix together Charlottesville food, booze, parties and gossip into a little blog called cVillain. We had no idea that we would grow into something so large and entertaining. Everyone behind cVillain has always been committed to growing a site that puts the readers in control.
It’s been a pretty exciting ride. We grew from a nothing site, to reaching nearly 45,000 readers/month today. You may or may not realize it, but cVillain is the zeitgeist of Charlottesville culture. I don’t know a better place to have a discussion about Charlottesville culture than on this site; and we mainly have you guys to thank.
We are not perfect, either. In fact, we are so intense, we killed off one of our founders. We’ve been accused of “supporting spam,” of not being fair to restaurants and being merely a fake media outlet (aka blog).
If we truly are an “unofficial,” then I love it. You should love it too; because it’s not me, or Lilith who made it that way. It’s you, the readers and commenters on this site. You guys decided, that’s how we want to be and we’ll keep it that way.
In some way or another, you could say all those things are true, but what fun would it be if we weren’t the little villain?! Probably not much fun. Also, what fun would it be if we were a bunch of official journalists, doing the same reporting as the other 20 media outlets in Charlottesville? Booooring.
Now, this site has to go to another level. Here’s how we plan to keep things awesome:
1. We’ve seen cvilleMUSE take off; we will announce the launch of another site on Sunday at the Space Party.
2. We promise to keep the readers in control. We encourage you to write articles, post commentary and generally let us know that you control this site, not some “editor” or some advertiser. Bring your friends!
3. We will have a lot more advertisement in the fall, which means that we will be able to bring more official writers to the site! Also, it means we will be able to give a bunch of free stuff away.
4. We will soon announce that ALL OF OUR CONTENT will be licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, which means you can use our articles for whatever purpose you want as long as you display our logo, link to our site and keep the ads in. If any of you want to republish it, that’s totally cool with us!
5. Finally, I want you all to RESPECT OTHERS, THEIR IDEAS and ENCOURAGE NEW, INFORMATIVE COMMENTARY. This site will not continue to be a valuable place for the Charlottesville community if you attack people because of their opinions. I am dead serious about this. I’ve seen a lot of unneeded negativity recently on this site and it cannot continue. We cover a lot of community topics and when I see people jump in and attack others, it’s simply not nice. I know you don’t do those things in real life. Keep it lively, but respect differences! That’s all we ask.
P.S. Come to the Space Party and be fans of us on Facebook! As always, let us know what we can do better; what features you want to see and how badly we stink.
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@ 5- That would be an improvement- I’ve been told that several rude comments “wouldn’t have happened if Lilith was still here”. ( thanks to others I know what that actually means) There seems to be some poster that take trollish delight in their comments. Of course nobody likes a goods cat fight more than me so I hope moderation will be the by word.
We really don’t want to start moderating because that makes our lives much more difficult.
We started the site a little over a year ago…
…and its been pretty much like this ever since.
/summary
Parlie’s gonna be super pissed you put up that pic of his house.
Thor - you now have a new tagline, “the zeitgeist of Charlottesville culture.”
You will of course need a special “TM” character that must be used each time the tagline appears in print.
*** The same “TM” character can also be deployed for all of those rumors that cVillain so clearly owns
Also, how about you take some of that upcoming fall ad revenue and kick it back to the readers who according to you are not only in control, but are the reason this blog exists and the reason you’re now making money off of this blog.
And BTW, this is a BLOG and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! Personally, I find it somewhat insulting that you equate “blog” with “merely another fake media outlet”?
Große, Thor wirft rund fancy deutsche Wörter. Was kommt als nächstes?
/the Zeitgeist, it burns
@5, You are right why did we not think of paying readers in the first place. We are gonna start printing our own currency to pay them; it will be called the cVillo , not convertible to US Dollars.
the cVillo is actually cereal. you may barter for goods and services as you see fit.
@6 Sie sprechen Deutsch? Meinemutterhatmichschonimmervorsolchentypengewarnt!
@9 LOL… second laff of the day from Dieter again. Deutschesindnichtnormalerweiselustig.
@9: Hörensiesichihremutter!
WiesogibtessovieledeutscheunddeutschsprachigeinTscharlotteswill?
Tut meir leid, niemandsprichtdeutschincharlottesvilleaußerthor. Ersagtezeitgeist!
@10 Ich bin kein Deutsch. Floozy ist wirklich ein Puma?
@11 Nun, ich nie scheinen.
@10: “Ich bin nicht Deutsch.” Und das ist vahr, Floozy ist wirklich eine Cougar-Frau.
Shenanigans ist ein sadistischer Serienmörder
/bored with Krautspeak now
Nah ah. And Thor started it. He threw out “ZEITGEIST”…
Lilith would have never allowed this to happen
@15 “kein Deutch” is what you say when you really want people to think you aren’t Germany. sagte er sarkastisch
@19: I don’t think you’re Germany.
@19 I’m not and you can’t touch my monkey either
@20 I mean Germany’s a really big country after all.
Ich spreche kein Deutsch.
Schnitzel! Strudel!