Editorial Policy for KVibber.com
This is a personal website belonging to Kelson Vibber. Parts of this site date back to the 1990s on a school webserver (see site history), long before I moved to this domain. Is it more pages than you might expect for one person? Sure, but I’ve been at it for 30 years.
Dates and Revisions
I try to make a note when I change something unless it’s just fixing a typo or updating a link. For blog posts I’ll usually keep the previous text and add a clearly-labeled update. Other pages, I’m just as likely to rewrite things and tag the modified date (like on this page).
For pages that I’ve moved from somewhere else, I usually backdate them to the original publication date. That includes the 99% of pages that I’ve moved from my older website, as well as posts I’ve moved from my blog to a regular page, or posts that I’ve imported from another blog or social media. Sometimes I’ll combine several posts into one article, and I’ll usually tag the original date from the oldest and the modified date from the newest (or the combination).
If you want to check up on me at the Internet Archive, keep in mind that everything older than April 2026 was on my old site, Hyperborea.org, with the blog at hyperborea.org/journal/.
Removals
Occasionally I’ll delete an old page. Usually because it’s something that was very time-specific and no longer stands on its own, like “I’m going to be at Comic-Con next week,” or a brief link to an article or video that’s also long gone. Sometimes I’ll remove parts of a linkblog round-up if some of the links are dead. And there were some Les Misérables pages I deleted for legal reasons back in 2000.
No “Generative AI”
I’d rather make honest mistakes than have something else make assumptions about what I really meant and present that as what I’ve “said.”
So no, I don’t use LLMs for my writing. And I don’t use “AI”-generated images for the same reason. (I briefly tried out image generation for banners on a couple of pages back in, I don’t know, 2023? 2024?, but I dropped it pretty quickly.)
Photo Editing
I don’t even do heavy photo editing. Mostly I just crop, rotate, adjust colors and brightness, sharpen, maybe blur or block something if it’s privacy-sensitive. Occasionally I’ll use a filter for effect. Way back when I’d occasionally do things like try to edit out telephone wires, though I can’t remember the last time I did even that much.
In general, I’d rather my photos show what I actually saw, to the best of my ability to bring it out and the best of the camera’s ability to capture it.
Typography
I like proper curly quotes and the occasional em-dash, because they make things easier to read. Eleventy takes care of them automatically on the sections I use it for, and WordPress/ClassicPress does the same on the blog. For hand-written pages like this one, sometimes I’ll remember to search-and-replace, and sometimes I won’t.
Third-Party Content
Reader Comments
Constructive comments on posts are welcome. But don’t be a jerk. Blog comments are moderated, and first-time commenters always need approval. Occasionally I’ll go back and clean out older comments to keep the discussion focused.
If you want me to delete your comments, let me know and I’ll remove them. You can email me at webmaster@kvibber.com.
Sorry, No Guest Posts
Occasionally the blog features posts by immediate family. If that’s not you, please don’t apply. (There are a handful of really old exceptions, like the repost of a 1993 cartoon review on my Les Mis blog that predates the rest of the site.)
No Ads or Paid Links
- This site is a hobby for me.
- Advertising hasn’t been a viable source of revenue for personal websites since maybe 2007. (I tried running ads back in 2010 or so, and I think I made a grand total of $200 over the course of a couple of years.)
- Even when I used affiliate links back in the early 2010s, I’d only link to something I was writing about anyway.