Pages

▼

Monday, October 24, 2011

Could half dumb with

Advice for all would-be-bloggers - before you go jaunting off into the ether with your trusty portfolio of comments, read this:


I could have done with reading it three years ago.....
at

19 comments:

  1. LoriOctober 24, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    Seriously, the youtube comments are some of the most horrible, insensitive, brainless words I've ever had the misfortune of reading.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Rachel FentonOctober 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    I agree, Lori. There seems to be a portion of the population driven by the desire to spread malcontent...some are so vicious in a way that seems unconnected to the posting they're commenting on, you have to wonder what's eating them...

    ReplyDelete
  3. Rachel FoxOctober 25, 2011 at 1:42 AM

    Some of the newspaper comments sections are as bad.
    Have you had problems at t'blog?
    x

    ReplyDelete
  4. Rachel FentonOctober 25, 2011 at 1:58 AM

    Thing is, I'm a hypocrit because I like to read the comments in the Guardian for the amusement value - it's the tabloids that really go for the jugular, isn't it?

    Re t'blog: no comment!)

    ReplyDelete
  5. AnonymousOctober 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM

    For a number of years I worked on a Harry Potter website as a manager and moderator. NEVER understood what drove some morons to troll.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Rachel FentonOctober 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    Managing a HP website must have been very cool, Donna - aside fromt the "troll[s/ers?]" - love that term - no idea how to use it...

    I think some commenters try to be humoerous, with varying degrees of success. Humour's always a risk. But others are just so mean it's beyond me.

    ReplyDelete
  7. AnonymousOctober 27, 2011 at 3:24 AM

    Anonymity makes all kinds of predjudices come out.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Group 8October 27, 2011 at 6:04 AM

    Oh yes, I've seen kids ripped to pieces by YouTube commenters. Nasty.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Rachel FentonOctober 27, 2011 at 12:50 PM

    You're right, Helen. It's cowardly.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Rachel FentonOctober 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM

    I was scrummaging around youtube for a couple of music clips t'other day and the vitriol just floored me.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Rachel FentonOctober 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    Thanks, Nu, Helen, Donna, Rachel, Lori - for all your positive and supportive comments!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Mike McLarenOctober 29, 2011 at 12:00 AM

    Too hilarious, because it's too true!

    ReplyDelete
  13. Rachel FentonOctober 29, 2011 at 12:40 AM

    It's a cool comic strip, Mike :)

    ReplyDelete
  14. AnonymousNovember 2, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    I'm too scared to leave a comment now.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Rachel FentonNovember 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM

    :) Hi Joseph - welcome.

    ReplyDelete
  16. The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in ItalyNovember 4, 2011 at 12:57 AM

    I've never looked at You Tube comments, no time for these things! But sometimes the Guardian ones are pretty freaky..

    ReplyDelete
  17. Rachel FentonNovember 4, 2011 at 2:41 AM

    Freaky and a half, Cat - people are too keen to get to sparring, me thinks...
    oh no they're not...
    ..oh yes they are...

    ReplyDelete
  18. Dominic RivronNovember 5, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    I was blogging about something like this only the other week. Setting stuff down invites one to reflect on it. It can be humbling/humiliating.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Rachel FentonNovember 5, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    I think I've blogged and commented my heart out, variously, Dominic, and yes, it can be humbling but I have become aware that not everyone shares the same openess.

    But this was aimed more at those commenters who knowingly and deliberately spread malice.

    ReplyDelete

Pop-ups must be enabled to leave comments on this site.