Howie at The Jawa Report goes off on some blog commenters who got a little out of hand the other day.
I noted that the thread was accumulating comments left and right. We were picking up new readers. All our statements and comments were being read not only by regulars here but also potential new readers as well. People from all over the world. Then came the insults to the queen and the profanity. Personally I thought that the insults the queen were particularly in bad taste considering the events of the day. After that it became the Greg and Carlos show. Other comments especially from new readers seemed to vanish. I think Mike’s thread could have easily went over two hundred comments had we just thought about it for a few more seconds before we hit that post button. See not only did Mike loose readers so did you. I know several of you like to go around and piss on every post like a dog on patrol. That is fine and dandy with me. For the most part I enjoy most of it. If you would just take a couple minutes to consider what thread you are on and also that you are shitting in your own nest. You not only drive off Mike’s readers, which was totally unfair to him. You also drive off readers of your own comments and ideas.
I have a couple of thoughts of my own:
Blog comments are one of the most powerful tools of self-expression on the Internet, second to blog posts. Your thoughts and ideas can receive exposure to dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people all over the world. Maybe tens or hundreds of thousands if you get really lucky. Do you really want 100,000 people to think of you as a complete tosser?
The other thing is, that blog you’re commenting on belongs to someone else, who usually is investing a lot of time and money to keep it up and running. They’re usually looking for intelligent discourse, or at least something funny. It’s like being a guest in someone’s home. You don’t generally take a dump on their carpet or tag their walls.
This is just an extension of what Internet veterans call netiquette. Someone want to write up a Netiquette for Blogs?
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Terry Jones
Jul 10, 2005
In a lot of ways this reminds me of the old days on Usenet. A bunch of dedicated readers trying to keep the signal to noise ratio down, against pretty much all odds. I’m a little surprised this isn’t more of a problem.
Of course, the balancing factor here is that someone owns and can moderate a blog.
mrcorey
Jul 12, 2005
I must agree. Comment moderation is a savior in cases like that. It sucks to be the censor, but, after all, its your idea, so you get to control the discussion around it :)
Howie
Aug 12, 2005
Holy cow I’m famous. Well as famous as a sith apprentice beyoch can be. Just surfing google to see if I’m out there. Yep I am. Got nothing on Rusty though.
Michael Hampton
Aug 12, 2005
Heh, you’re definitely out there…oops, did I say that?