I won’t pretend to have a lot of readers. In fact I have absolutely no idea how many readers this thing has… save the daily page views which honestly I little idea how to interpret. I have gotten all of maybe 4 or 5 comments total on all the 300+ posts I have made to this blog. But increasingly, as I roam the web reading articles and blog entries, I find my dislike for comments to be reaching a fever pitch. I have always been uneasy with the way message boards and comment threads have given people the opportunity to be people I have always figured they are not in real life. The disguise of anonymity allows people to often just disregard civil discourse and just be as big an asshole (or imbecile) as they please. Again I always figure that if you took these people and put them in a room together without a computer to hide behind they would probably be perfectly polite - but online, they adopt personas which are, as far as I’m concerned, simply inexcusable. No one has behaved that way here, not by a long shot, and I am grateful for that - but particularly as I read the occasional comments on political stories regarding this campaign - I typically find them to be crude or blatantly inflammatory, or perhaps even worse - a simple parroting of blunt talking points. (Unfortunately, especially Obama supporters a lot of the time)
So I have decided that since my gut reaction is pure uneasiness over comment threads, I am just going to disable them entirely on my own little piece of the web. I want the "peace and quiet" of commentless blogs to be what andyeswecan.com aspires to.
However, I still would love to hear what anybody thinks - about anything at all.
So please email me at andyeswecan@gmailINSERTDOTCOM and let me know that you’re reading, or that you think Obama is a Hindu, or that I mispelled misspelled.
I’ll leave the comments on this post open, one last time….
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