Hits Rising But…
Published by deviousdiva January 24th, 2008 in Blogging.Here’s the truth.
I am pretty fed up with what is going on here.
I have one or three people who have taken up residence and for all the hard work I do, researching issues and current affairs here in Greece (and it is work), I am getting the same responses over and over again.
The people who used to comment here before are silent yet my hits have quadrupled. I preferred the smaller, quieter but more active community I had here before. I miss it. I miss you.
I thank all the new readers who are participating in a positive and persistent way. You know I don’t mean you but I wonder… how much do hits count when real discussion is lost. I know (for a fact) through emails and private correspondence that people are put off by this recent turn of events here. I am sorry for that and I am going to try and put that right.
Again, I am put in the position of deleting comments in the background and being accused of being unfair, undemocratic and going against freedom of speech.
Just think of this for a second or two…
when you talk of your freedom of speech and try to bully me into answering your questions, you are preventing many people from voicing their opinion… it doesn’t really matter to you what the reason is, but I see that that fear, and especially fear of abuse ( verbal abuse can be very, very hurtful. I know because I have experienced it) is stopping people from putting forward their thoughts. So for all your foot-stamping and sulking, I am going to put a stop to it right now.
Thank you for elevating my “blog standing” and hits, but enough now. Back to the issues and back to the present.
DD: there are people who do not deserve a hearing; that is why every organised country limits the freedom of expression. Some of the scum who comment here are beneath contempt, and it is appropriate that you “censor” the blog. Good luck with your continued struggle for informed debate on racial issues.
still reading…
I’ve just been a rut for a while…i’ve kept up, but i’ve stopped writing.
one of these days, i think i’ll be back at my own place and comments elsewhere…i hope things work out here.
Thank you.
I am struggling under a deluge of the “negatives” and the backlash that they were bound to bring following my latest post (and actions)
Again, this is not about disagreement. It is about derailment.
and I am working my butt off trying to leave comments where ever I can, cuz I know that places that are chronically left with nasty commenters really could use the support!!!
But I forget where I leave comments–I try to do those comment tracker things, but I forget to press the little thingy saying “monitor this conversation”–and next thing you know, i have left comments in twenty different places and only remember where I left about four or five of them.
I’m like a freaking squirrel or something–buring my little nuts all over the yard, and then spending the entire spring digging up the yard because I have no clue where I buried them to begin with.
bless my curly little head!!! hahaha!!!
Just stopping to leave bits and pieces of love in you home…just listening and reading quietly…
XO
Sudy
if i sent a letter to a newspaper
the Times ,
lets say ………..
calling them shitMCdoodles and bunderheads of yesteryear
and derailed them
by sending a letter
every day ,
(and the times publish it)
trying to throw a cog into their rails
by writing mean things , and crying for my right to be published
do i participate in something creative
or just air my meaness and problematic behavior
without even paying for the psychotherapy of participating
wont the EDITOR start freaking out at some point
stop freaking out ,
fuck my few fellow greeks of idiotic content,
if i want to read their gibberish
ill go to their
soapbox and read their rubbish .
they have no rights in their own country (greece)
why do you have to create a democracy
for them which they have not bled to have it.!
protect yourself and respect your true readers
and your future with them. =Z= ..YOURS TRULY =Zjr.=
*with much love*
I will try becauseyou deserve and are amazing.
( and also because anyone who gives my the phrase ” bles smy sweet curly head which I have coopted as ” bless my sweet nappy head”) is awesome
just recently discovered your site and loved it…been here ever since almost in a daily basis but i have commented only once…
As long as i m totally against any kind of censorship i understand your views on verbal abuse, being myself a victim many times, and their consequences. And so i say go for it. Protecting your place and your friends is self-explanatory.
But plz plz plz keep on the great job
Keep up the good work DD. We need people like you.
I’ve accepted that people only contribute when they feel they have something to say, and silence can be golden. Everyone has their own reasons for not commenting and/or spurting negative junk at you, which often has everything to do with themselves. I have a fair amount of things in the background as my site grows also, but it’s not about validating my existence and I’d quit if it really bothered me that much. That’s life.
I haven’t seen you comment on my site since July, but I don’t take that personally even if I’ve seen you comment regularly in places we both frequent, and I still find time between two jobs and my own site to comment occasionally here. That’s life.
Cheers!
Those people are like a turd that won’t flush. They just hang around stinking up the place. Tsk tsk!
Me too. I mean, I liked it much better when I was the only reader of my blog. But I guess blogs are not very different from people: once they grow up, they become less cute.
haven’t commented in a while, but i’m still around.
and yeah, in general, there does seem to be a certain law of diminishing returns wrt size of blog/# of commenters. dunno exactly where that hits–I suspect it varies–but I do know that there’s a reason I tend to avoid most of the Big Important Blogs. especially the very top echelon, where you get thousands of comments like FRIST!ELEVEN and totally tangential discussions and “open threads.” might as well just go…well, anywhere, really.