{"id":3351,"date":"2011-05-09T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/on-blogs-and-comments-and-the-state-of-things.html"},"modified":"2011-05-09T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:31:00","slug":"on-blogs-and-comments-and-the-state-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/on-blogs-and-comments-and-the-state-of-things.html","title":{"rendered":"On blogs and comments and the state of things"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It\u2019s come to my attention that my comments sections are not showing up.\u00a0 I might look into that when the time is right.\u00a0 Right now, it\u2019s obvious that blogging has dropped to an almost crawl.\u00a0 Life issues and all. As has, as a result, my readership.\u00a0 Whereas a few months ago my readership meter was off the scale, it\u2019s closer to my bank\u2019s CD interest rates.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also been told that errors are popping up on my blog, and things are disappearing like certain faves or fans links or whatever.\u00a0 I had been told some months ago that my Fans link had issues, and someone who had tried to be a fan couldn\u2019t. I never did figure that one out.\u00a0 So obviously there is a certain level of maintenance involved in a blog, as well as the need for some tech knowledge, which I don\u2019t have.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>All of this is to say I don\u2019t have time to look into things right now.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep posting.\u00a0 I hope folks will come by and enjoy, and keep coming back.\u00a0 Tell a friend or two.\u00a0 Link to my blog if you\u2019re really feeling crazy.\u00a0 I may let comments stay off for a while.\u00a0 To be honest, the number and variety of comments was diminishing once I had to slow down the blogging.\u00a0 There\u2019s something to be said for quality, of course.\u00a0 But after I had to chase away a commenter or two who were just more or less coming by and insulting people, I noticed the numbers of comments dropped.\u00a0 Maybe that is the nature of the blogging beast.\u00a0 It seems sometimes blogs are where we go to behave in ways we would never allow our children to behave.\u00a0 It certainly is a place where folks can sometimes hatch some rather strange, if not downright stupid, ideas and theories.\u00a0 And sadly enough, most numerous comments in most blogs happen when party one says thus and such, a second party responds by calling the individual stupid\/evil\/sinful, and then it\u2019s Katie-bar-the-door.\u00a0 So for my rather non-combative nature, I prefer no conflict, but with no conflict came, well, fewer comments. We\u2019ll keep things as they are for now. <\/p>\n<p>So come on by, see what I\u2019ve been kicking around, and who knows?\u00a0 Maybe things will all be up and running down the road when I have more time to post more thoughts.\u00a0 I know you\u2019re all quivering with anticipation!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s come to my attention that my comments sections are not showing up.\u00a0 I might look into that when the time is right.\u00a0 Right now, it\u2019s obvious that blogging has dropped to an almost crawl.\u00a0 Life issues and all. 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