Oh crystal ball, save us all
An annual "what, no comments?" post, and a confession of self-indulgence at the end, with a reference to the musical group, Keane.
The comments seem to have dried up here. I was particularly disappointed in the lack of comments on the last post. I've read elsewhere people saying if the blog author doesn't respond to their comments, they stop leaving them. Is this what's happened? Have I finally driven off my five commenters (possibly five readers) by not responding to their remarks?
I'm usually quite comfortable not responding to comments and only do so if I know the person or have developed a relationship with them. Even then I might not respond. What is there to say? I wrote something, you commented. Very good. A further response doesn't seem necessary.
However, I also understand this style can't be very welcoming to newcomers, who might assign unintended malice to my non-response.
And when the comments dry up completely it's a bit disturbing. But only a bit.
It's the usual blogger insecurity. Time to listen to Keane's Under the Iron Sea, I think. In the end you have to learn not to rely on immediate feedback and go ahead and write what you will.
On a seperate note, I had a brownie with coffee this morning and it was fantastic.
"The more I look the more I think I'm starting to disappear."
4 comments:
hee! I'm still here. and thought that I'd leave this comment just so you feel better! I am on blog hiatus at the moment, I can't seem to get up the energy to post. But I'm still reading and paying attention. Just quietly. Cheers, Pippa x
Ooops! My bad!
I must confess to really disliking Blogger comments, which means I don't leave comments as often on a Blogger blo.
Still...I owes you a brownie!
Shelley
Ah - that's reassuring. Nice to get a knock echoing back at you occasionally.
I didn't realize that the Blogger comment form could be a turn-off; that's unfortunate.
Thanks for the brownie offer. :D
It's like writing into a void when no one comments.
I've become a very bad commenter of late. I read a lot of blogs, but rarely say anything. This is mainly because I'm very busy these days and just don't have time to come up with intelligent ocmments, or get involved in a long complicated discussions in threads, although the blogger would probably be pleased enough with "great post."
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