On a recent thread on Althouse, the ace commenter Reader I Am stated that there were several levels of commenter's on the site. She left it open for a follow up and suggested it would be a good thread. But no one took her up on it, especially the host.
I think it is very true that there are various levels of involvement. There are the daly posters who are almost always present. The frequent posters who are there two out of three days. And the occasional visitors who post once a week or once a month. The hardest part of commenting for me is not blasting other commenter's who piss me off for one reason or another. It's usually not about the content but rather the form. Some of the pretentious blather is so bad you want to cut your throat rather than listen to one more word. Some of it is mindlessly cheery blather that annoys the hell out of me. Some of it is self-righteous sanctimony. But I try never to address this too directly, although a fail all the time and end up posting shit I shouldn't. Luckily I post a quote or aside that is opaque enough that the nimrods can't figure it out. It is a joy to communicate with people who get it like blake, Reader I am, Pastor Jeff, Meade, Madison Man, Pallidan and even Titus who is a pretty funny guy.
And I want to offer a big apology to Mort. I conceived a dislike for him because I thought he was this guy who showed up at a meet up who was a real dick head. It turns out he was a totally different guy. So I was snarking at him for months for no reason. I apologize.
But not to Reader. What a pain in the ass.
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Well, that's fine, Trooper. I'll limp along. And when did you start this blog? I discovered it yesterday when I happened to click your profile for the first time in months, wondering if you'd added an e-mail yet, after seeing a post of your over at Outis'.
Now I'm wishing more that you had one, because of another comment somewhere else, which I think might have been misunderstood, on account of there was something I couldn't say there. But well, whatever.
As for the levels of posters, you left one out: Those who have moved from one category to another over time. And that one has subsets.
Don't mind the foreign language insults, despite the time that I practically begged you to do it again and you took my comment in the exact opposite way and thought I was pissed. These here intarnets definitely have their limits; lots of chatter and static, but not always a lot of communication, much less of the clear type.
You must know I am joking my dear; you are one of my favorite commenters on Althouse. I love your posts. It's where subordinate clauses go to die.
I just dig putting profanities in foreign languages in stuffy bogs. I figure there are dudes in Bulgaria or Tunis laughing their asses off.
I also knew you were kidding and I was kidding you right back. Also assume I am being a wise guy and a put on artist and we will have commincated. So we really didn't miscomunicate at all. So there.
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