Re:Upkeep (Score 1)

I like my metaphor, it's straight & to the point.

It's concise, but I think it's an impossibly bad fit to the LJ situation. You don't collect hundreds of babies and put them in tubs throughout thousands of rooms, moving on after each baby, where they're going to be left for months and years (and never taken out unless they've drowned), and still have sole responsibility for checking on them constantly. And a baby has a good chance of drowning if left alone in a tub, so you're probably going to stay with that one baby the entire time and then take it out.

If you leave a baby alone in the tub--let alone hundreds of babies--you're almost guaranteed a dead baby, or a fat pile of them. That's not true of blog links; they might become invalid eventually, but most of them don't later change without warning to a porn site, and they certainly don't need constant undivided attention to keep them from doing so.

IMO putting a baby in a tub and leaving it there, is nothing like putting a link in one of your blog entries and moving on. There is an obvious responsibility to stay with that one baby until it is out of the tub, and not move on and do other things with your life and (wrongly/dangerously) trust that the baby will be ok on its own. There is no such responsibility for blog links, and attempting to force one is ridiculous and doomed to fail.