Tag: commenting on other blogs

How not to lose friends and alienate bloggers

There is a better way.

Find a blog/article about a topic you’re passionate about online.
Read and comprehend the original post.
Think about a reasonable response.
Write your response, erring on the side of grace and caution.
Read to see if other people have commented since your last comment.
Reread your comment.
Make sure it’s loving in its tone, and not offensive.
Post it.
Realise that other people aren’t like you and don’t necessarily want their comment pages spammed. Post once per response.

Find a blog/article about a topic you’re passionate about online.
Barely read/comprehend the original post – just find key words and points that invoke your bloodlust.
Get indignant.
Post a comment about why the person is wrong.
Only read the follow up comments that talk directly to your point.
Argue with those comments using much hyperbolic subjectivity, little objectivity in order to demonstrate why you are right while continuing to ignore the context.
Read back what you, and they wrote.
Feel guilty.
Post a contrite apology on that discussion and a list of things that alienate people so others will learn from your mistakes.
Hope that the people from the other blog also read yours so that they see said list.