Left Field Seems Popular
I remain puzzled by a trend, and I think it is time I make a quick note at this level. For some reason, readers seem to wander into deep left when commenting here. This is not always true, but if you read the exchange of comments attached to the post just prior to this one, you may, as I have, wonder how the heck it got from a silly little joke about stalled OS development to the comment that reads, "Main point --> Microsoft Sucks."
I entreat you who may read these posts to stay on topic, or at least reasonably close. Prior to that comment, nothing I had written in the post or a comment had consituted either an implicit or explicit value judgement between the two operating systems or the companies that make them.
Fair warning, however: future flame bait (defined locally as those that are both inflammatory and clearly off the topic of the specific post to which they are attached) will get round-filed. I will not post any replies to them, and any third-party replies to such comments will also get nuked.
I'm tired of going around with people when there is nothing to be had but senseless wrangling on side issues.
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what about the rest of us ... that have enjoyed the dialogue ... what's left for us?
I have no problems with potentially inflammatory comments that are on point. What happened in the case below, however, was a distortion—mischaracterization, if you will—of what I had written in my post and later in my first comment. I may be overreacting here, and the comment about my "Main point" may have been made in jest. I am certain it was not made with malice since I know the commenter well enough. What ensued, however, was a discussion for another post, and I found myself taking too much time pursuing it.
I welcome, I should say, comments that encourage me to put forth my opinions on topics in new posts. I suppose part of it is just that: some people read comments, and that's great, but if I am going to engage a topic, I'd like to engage it, initially, at the level of apost, not a comment. That is not what happened here.
Let me then modify my initial post (and I suppose I should create a new post about this to bear out my case) to this: If an off-topic comment comes, I will post a single brief reply indicating whether or not I want to pursue the new topic in a new post. I have also been kicking about the idea of bifurcating my blogging, keeping personal and education material here and making future posts about contentious issues on a new blog. Were I to do that, of course, I would not double my output, but I would segment the content, freeing me up for free-for-all verbal slugfests with the understanding that the purpose of the blog (and any resulting comments) is provocation. Call it a mental boxing ring, if you will.
Ideas?
um, get a life?
Ah, the bravery of hiding behind "anonymous" always stuns me. And thanks, anonymous, but I have a life.
p.s. Get a name change. "Anonymous" is a tad bit too generic.
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