Is this format the new soc.men?

Hello to everyone including fellow bloggers at glennsacks, spectator.org, womenasmothers, and especially soc.men!

After 2 decades of posting at soc.men, I realize that the Usenet medium is nearly dead (at least for social and political commentary).  It's not due to a failure on it's design but rather the popularity of browsers and blogger commentaries and the inability and lack of necessity for "newbies" to use, or "Use" it.  In the old days, it was Usenet or Email and if you had an account on either, you were in a really cool club.  Ok, I still think it's a pretty cool club but sadly, we need new blood.  So that's why I'm starting this.  Before we move forward, it would be useful to understand what made soc.men great in the past and incorporate some of those principles:

1) Men's issues are "cool".   Even as hecklers and trolls would wander on in to poke fun at us, they would be drawn in by their own epiphanies and personal realizations that they hadn't previously considered.  Usenet was like one big cocktail party where people gossiped but at soc.men, sacred cows were ground up.

2) Men's issues are at the core of nearly everything else and by the same token, every other issue is intimately connected with men's rights.  Socialism is one of the biggies (because socialism is a big issue) but also even environmentalism, race, crime, and technological progress.  If you have an axe to grind or pet peeve, you'll probably wind up here.  It's just a matter of getting them to come around.  Since Usenet is dying (for this purpose), we have to move on.

3) Men's issues hit people at a personal level and sometimes it went badly but it also reminded us of our personal commitment to our principles and contributions to society. Back then, people's vitriol was constrained by the anonymity of the net of the time.  Moving forward, we'll have to have some guidelines in place but the important thing is that we're a community and men are the backbone of it.  The spirit of the community is: "Keep it above the belt".  Keep personal attacks and observations relevant to the issue and, well, legal.  That leads us to:

4) Usenet didn't require much moderation and moderated groups failed either due to lack of traffic, moderator bias, or failure for moderators to keep up with the workload.  Also, spam hadn't really taken off yet.  For starters, I'm going to keep things pretty open with warnings going out to posters who are clearly out to harass the group or post embarrassing stuff but even so, I think it's important we not be constrained by political correctness.  I hope that the technological innovations of blogging allows us to improve on what USENET started.

5) Usenet is a linked forum.  I don't want this to be just my blog.  Let's all start our own and link to each other.  In fact, I think we should all do that. 

For years, I had a lot of fun "riding" on other people's forums and discussion threads.  Now, I'm hosting them.  I am humbled and excited to see what happens!