Comments on: The joys of not posting

By: walt

walt — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:43:13 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Daniel. (And your first two paragraphs are also reasons I suppress posts frequently. At LISNews, I always ask that last question after previewing a comment: “Should I hit Reply, or should I hit the Back button?”

I think this weblog is turning out to be just what the name implies: Random thoughts that don’t really fit elsewhere (for one reason or another). But I do try to make them thoughts, not just links and reactions, not always successfully.

What impresses me, as I’ve noted before, is the extent, thoughtfulness, and creativity in the comments I’m getting. If I deserve the readers I seem to have, maybe I’m not quite as much of a tired hack as I sometimes think…

It does mean my LISNews journal is withering away little by little, but that’s OK.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:06:32 +0000

Sometimes I write and delete page long responses twice before deciding there are some postings I just don’t need to respond to.

In addition to the reasons you gave, another for me is that I find that I’m picking on one point in a posting that I otherwise agree with 95%. I wind up deciding that I don’t want to waste time jawboning over another four or five comments that a posting on the 5% I don’t agree with.

This is turning out to be a very good and dare I say “thoughtful” blog. Thanks for having the extra writing energy.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:39:21 +0000

I wrote a great response to this but decided not to post it.

(someone had to do it)

By: Donna Wentworth

Donna Wentworth — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:32:45 +0000

Lovely…thinking before posting is certainly the path less traveled.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:03:00 +0000

Hmm … after I’ve done the work of writing something, I find it very difficult to just throw it away. Though it can certainly be argued that I’d be better off if I did that more often!