In the past, I’ve put up at least one post with closed comments, where I didn’t even want to see agreement about it, just wanted to get my word out and leave it. I may take that approach more going forward, depending on the nature of the post. Most of the time comments will be open, occasionally they may not – if I remember my thinking from this particular morning.
It has to do with why I’m making a post in the first place. You may have noticed I cover a broader range of post types than some others on the network. Sometimes it’s a creative exercise I’m making public for fun, sometimes it’s creative writing. Sometimes it’s art criticism or response. Sometimes I’m reacting to a shitty news or opinion article, sometimes expressing my view of the world, which is different enough from the mainstream that I feel justified in casting another voice into the void. I probably have a few more post types I’m forgetting.
In mind of that, which posts would I not want comments on?
Mainly political things. Not all of them, but some of them. Sometimes I wonder if I should even discuss politics because it ain’t always great for my health. I’ve been queuing (jeezis what a spelling on that word) posts so that by the time you read them they are days old, sometimes over a week, and you are about to see a few political posts, but eh…
Man I’m tired. Woke up too early, no choice about going back to sleep on this particular morning. I hope I can retire someday. So tired.
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Sorry about limited commenting lately. A few fires at work (why do I want to work in the automotive sector again?), and limited time.
But I have started reading the Josefina and Blastfemia series. I’m not going to give a reaction until I read all the entries, but I’d like to know how you would prefer it. Should I drop comments in each entry? Give one big comment at the end? A combination? Or, because you have moved on from that, are you no longer interested? In any event, it will take some time. Just reading through something is easy, reading to offer constructive criticism is much harder.
no problem at all. i only stopped j&b because i got to an ok stopping point, will finish it in the future when i can. go ahead and wait til you’re done with what i’ve written before commenting, if you prefer. if you have a question about a specific part, could be easier to address by commenting on that post.
this was more about topics that make me too mad. i may limit commenting on those.
one more thing I should mention. some older posts at random have comments disabled. it’s usually because spambots were trying to necro them.
thank you very much for reading!
No worries. I understood that this post was about a different topic, but as it appears to have garnered no comments itself (and because of the nature of the post seems unlikely to), I thought this would be a good spot for a side topic.
I don’t take any offense at posts which have comments disabled. Or even posts which have moderated comments where my comments never show up. This is your territory, not mine. I do try to avoid pissing on it.
excellent principles