Careful writing, careless commenting.

I am a writer (blogger) and a commenter.

I observe that people generally tend to write carefully and comment carelessly.

It is more aggravating to me on my web-sites where I take a whole day or more to create a page of information.. with an attempt to lead to a particular conclusion, and then I get a random comment assuming things that I have not granted or accepted. Comments willing me to accept  the conclusions that I am trying to refute.

I think this is because readers do not read as carefully as writers write. Given the ‘comment’ button, they respond instantaneously and say whatever they think. AB has an annoying rating system whereby he or others rate your comment and that gives you feedback on feedback. As a result of which I first stopped commenting on his blog and now I no longer read it.

The only comments I seem to actually like are those which praise my ideas or those that respond at the frequency at which I am transmitting. The rest as I said are aggravating.

I have also looked at ‘backtype’. One’s comments are tracked for life.

As a ‘commenter’, I have found myself appreciating someone’s work only to discover that they have copied it without acknowledgement. And there my comment is for eternity… praising them for what they do not deserve. In facebook, one can delete comments but not on the internet.

Finally I think, that a comment at the wrong frequency, is like a guy laughing at the wrong part of your joke., it’s annoying.