I wasn’t going to post anything about this… but a post at someone’s site made me decide to do this tonight.
Recently someone I know (mostly through the internet somewhat in real life) decided to ban anonymous comments from her blog… now maybe there were some comments that I didn’t see which led to this decision… and in that case I have no right saying the things I am going to say… but with that disclaimer, here I go:
This decision appeared to follow a comment that I made (as anonymous since I don’t have a live journal) and a comment from Jason. The comment from me was friendly and nice as far as I could tell… and that is how I intended it… The comment from Jason was simply about his experience with an event the person was going through… it wasn’t a statement about their intelligence or anything… he just wanted to share his experience… well this brought about the banning of anonymous comments.
Then the person made a post about how they don’t like it when people bash people with different beliefs… well since Jason has (technically, he doesn’t use it) a live journal he decided to comment on this post. He corrected a factual error the person made… in a polite and non-condescending tone… and agreed with the person about bashing others beliefs… this brought about the banning of his livejournal account….
Now today this person made a post claiming that they didn’t feel comfortable publicly posting their political beliefs… Maybe I am missing a lot of things but I just don’t understand what has led this person to believe this or to feel this way… and well since due to the banning of anonymous comments I am not able to ask this person… but they used to read my blog, maybe they still do and will respond to this…
*UPDATE* Looks like anonymous comments are back on… but that still doesn’t explain why they were turned off as an apparent reaction to people being friendly and doing what people do in comments….
It’s a little past the time to be saying this, but all I have been wanting lately is to be able to say something without everyone who disagrees feeling the need to jump down my throat about it, thus why my LJ is now (mostly) friends-only. I didn’t really need this to turn into a drama involving the entire family that you are about to become a part of, and I didn’t need to be harrassed on AIM or in comments. All I wanted was to be left alone… and that’s what I got, so case closed. I just thought I’d mention something now that I finally saw this post.
By the way, the other comment on this post is spam that you may want to get rid of.
My point is simply that I didn’t see anyone jumping down your throat…. as this post explains you did this after Jason told you about his experience with being a national merit scholar…. I don’t see how that is jumping down someone’s throat…. I don’t think this is any kind of drama… I just don’t understand it.
About the spam comment… I don’t really care about them that much, not too many people read my blog so I don’t bother taking the time to get rid of most of them….