by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I noticed in my Webstats that someone — probably coming from a link posted in a Slack — was out of the blue poking around this Website. The seemed particularly interested in what I had to say about the Twitter clone Post. It appeared as though they wanted to comment on the post didn’t like the requirements for doing it so they decided not to.
I have a very active imagination, so I of course thought a mixture of the absolute worst and the absolute best.
On one hand, I assume anyone who wants to comment on something I write here is completely insane and if they had the opportunity to comment without giving me an email address they would just tell me how crazy I was and how I should kill myself. Or something along those lines.
Of course, on the OTHER hand, maybe they liked what I had to say and wanted to offer me the chance to write — for pay! — on their site. Or something like that. But that doesn’t hold much water — if they were all that interested in talking me about a gig like that, there are plenty of other ways to track me down as opposed to commenting on a blog post. And why wouldn’t they want to give me their email address?
So, we come back to the point of why it’s so difficult to comment on this blog — I generally assume everyone online is fucking spiteful and hateful and, given the opportunity, would do everything in their power to make me hate myself and the world.
So, you CAN comment here, but you have to give me an email so I can respond to your comment about how I should walk into the sea and never be seen again. This is the same reasoning why I generally turn comments off on my Tik-Toks –some of the most fucked up things I’ve ever read were in a Tik-Tok comment. So, in that respect, Tik-Tok comments and Periscope comments are a lot a like.
People are just hateful online. They generally think the absolute worst filth possible to say in an effort to goad you into feeling back or responding.
Anyway, I make no apologies for making it difficult to comment on this blog.
