Thing 12

While I was reading as much as I could (some of the links are blocked by my firewall) about the nature of commenting ( or lack thereof), I began to realize a feeling that I had already had but didn't know at the time that I had it what it really was. I am a not much of a lurker. At least, I would rather comment, and I do, but sometimes I feel that I am not equipped to comment on some of the topics that I come across. I comment on what stirs me up. For instance, there was an article about parents sharing duties and how that can be calculative in some relationships. I shared a way that my husband and I have managed to avoid keeping strict tabs (which only leads to resentment.) That spurred a great discussion.



While I have been creating posts for these 23 things I have always had in the back of my mind an awareness that I had an audience. The most nondescript audience to whom I have ever written. That is why I have been holding back. I have not known exactly who is reading my stuff. I have had occassional comments posted about my ideas and some replies to comments I have left on other blogs, and that has kept me with the game, but the lack of commenting on my blog and other blogs in this session has kept this game a bit one-sided. In fact, I am seriously doubting anyone will read this.



So rather than sulk, I am going to venture out and comment a lot more and hope that that will spur discussion. It isn't that I want traffic to my blog (I am certainly not selling anything). It is just this, I know that writers need feedback in order to be motivated to keep writing, so commenting is that crucial to blogging.




Other Tidbits: I always like learning new cyber terms. Knowing that there are 2 groups of bloggers out there is important stuff. SPloggers aren't anything surprising, but I am sure they are sneaky. I had a Splogger comment on one of my posts. I did control that by moderating my comments, though. True bloggers seem to want to keep a network of ideas going, but as Cool Cat Teacher has put so well, there are Darth Commenters out there waiting to spread the dark side of blogging and turn others to the dark side as well. She says, "It is important that we model for children the right way to disagree on a topic and to show that we can do it while remaining civil and not attacking the other's right to their opinion." In other words we need to be more like Yoda when we comment (only we should use the right syntax).