Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Yey I am the first to comment

As with all good things, there are quite a few evils lurking in this blogosphere. Ofcourse my dearest word verification tops the list! I am no blog analyst, but recently, I have been noticing this trend in blogs of different types. Needless to say, it is only appearing in high-popularity blogs, so has nothing to do with mine, but still its kinda unnerving to find the sort of "craze". It really doesnt mean anything if u r the first to comment or the tenth. Comment is meant to be more of a viewpoint, but its turning out to be a rat race for "signing attendance". Maybe Blog as a school of thot is being misinterpreted! And in the near future, maybe we can see proxies operating in this area! Quality of posts might roughly remain the same, but the frequency of posts have reduced, while the comments have increased. Bloggers have been stereotyped, and they feel indebted to their readers to follow the treaded path. Blogs are also tending to follow the law of averages, any stupid comment will attract roughly the same number of comments as the most brilliant post, as the readers are themselves indebted to "sign in" to anything the blogger says.

Another case of indebtation comes when there is a comment from the unknown person. Two events are triggered. The blogger must thank the new visitor, and invariably visits and leaves a comment to the same effect on the visitor's blog. Comments like the title and anonymous hate comments have become more frequent in blogs. Also, a lot of bloggers tend to moan about not finding anything to blog about. If you dont think of writing anything, dont! They feel forced by readers, decreasing blog hits, their inertia of momentum or whatever crap to keep writing.. and writing.. and writing more... and writing less about themselves, less about their feelings, less about the things that bother them, less about what they care about...

Truths and feelings are spiced up to add more entertainment value. "Not me" I hear u screaming. Do you post and forget about it or do you read through/ edit your post before or after submitting? Do you write what comes to your mind or do u think "This is worth blogging", "I shud blog this tonight"?. Will you dare to disable the comments for ur blog for a month and still continue to blog with the same frequency? You can argue about a symbiotic relationship, but has the "core" of what a blog is missed along the way? If u read the first ten posts of a blog and the last ten, you would know what Im whining about. Blog courtesy, blog etiquette, blog values, what next? Maybe Im not following blog ethics in the content of this post! And my dear spammers have also reduced their indulgence, decreasing the entertainment value associated with a blog! Somehow I find the "fun" element of blogs decreasing and ""compulsive" factor increasing. One blogger stated that the page hits continued over 50 a day when he had not posted for over a month. Another said he blogs for improving his english skills. Another said he loves to make people laugh while another said its to improve the networking opportunities. Another said Im not able to keep people interested, so im quitting. I know there might be a lot of defences for these, and are usually portrayed as advantages of blogs, but is it a good thing or a bad thing?

And I feel everyone of u shud do something to make me more satisfied.

Im sure u r thinkin "there is nothing wrong with my blog", "whats wrong with my blog", "how to make it more interesting for this guy"... Indebtation it is....

Blogs are supposed to be ur thots expressed in ur way. Lets just keep it at that!

Quoting the god of services, "Do no evil"! Will you? Wont you? Its upto you!

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35 comments:

cutefreaky said...

Y did you ask me to comment first for this blog post da?

anyways.. i dnt get to read blogs as I used to.. so i did not spend all vetti time analyzing like you...

I write as n when I have my thoughts flowing n I dont read my post n edit before posting.. infact smtimes due to my late night bloggin.. u might find spelln errors in my posts..

tata thaatha
sukku

Random Access said...

I asked u to comment cos I wanted a blogger's perspective when u see such a comment on ur blog.. and since I saw onee such comment in ur blog and since I have never had to deal with such a comment myself!

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Satyashree Srikanth said...

Yey I am the second to comment! I am sorry, coulndt resist. And no, you dont have to thank me!

Nice post, but I am not sure if the popular blogs are actually dipping in quality. Me thinks, the popular bloggers must feel about comments what big artists feel about 'Saar, I am your biggest fan saar'. SO while the imbecile commenters fight out, which will eventually die out too,the blogs will go on.

Paavai said...

I agree partly. popular blogs have even started pasting their old ones :)- so much for burn out.

By and large we all write what we think strongly about at that point in time.

Ramses said...

Agree with u sire.

initially yeah cmts mattered to me..tho not on my blogspot blog,but now i've just given up and blog when i feel like..tho i take forced breaks to reduce the addiction:P.

nandini said...

It is kind of pointless to comment just for the sake of coomenting- its supposed to be for when you feel strongly about the article that has been writtem... all the same it is nice to see that people have read what you've written and (hopefully) find it interesting enough to leave a comment.

awakeningcoma said...

writing blogs and comments aint easy , it takes a lot to come up with a good blog,most of time i dont, but commenting a lot easy to do, as im doing now .

Unknown said...

me 8th! :P...frankly i find it amusing to see people engaging in such childish behaviour with respect to commenting. But it doesnt concern me as much, since its an individual's interpretation.

And it seriously is annoying to see people whining about the lack of inspiration or topics to blog about!

Visithra said...

To me i love writing - i need to write something that is of my taste about emotions - laughter memories sadness - n from the beginning to now ive never changed it for anyone - i post whatever i wish to

but i do love comments - to me its a sense of interaction - some comments inspire me to write stuff some posts inspire me to write a view on things - some posts are just nonsense

i do the im first comment - its not coz im lurking at a persons blog - but its coz it happened by surprise - its most memorable when the person just posted it hot off the plate n you accidentally arrived at the right time - n u feel like sharing it - its fun actually - impromptu entertainment

Err isnt whining a form of blogging - as one is expressing a need for change n inspiration? - though of course too much can irritate

Deepti Ravi said...

Hi.. What you wrote sure did make a very interesting read!! And quite true actually!! :) yeah..sometimes when something happens around me .. I do think.. I need to blog about this.. but more in the perspective..that it is something that i find interesting and want to share with the ppl around me .... :)

Aishwarya Rao said...

Its the age where we post/comment for the sake of it. But as nandy says it feels good to know that someone is reading it ofcourse!

Unknown said...

Nice post Ran, i found myself nodding my head very fast quite often whilst reading it. For me the fun element has definitely gone, but saying that I have gained a lot through the blogs too. Will I ever have the guts to close shop and walk out, I am not sure.

Anonymous said...

very true. i was a blogger once. wrote what i felt. then i fell a prey to the expectations of my readers .........

Shruthi said...

What you say holds a lot of truth!

Anonymous said...

you ASKED sukhanya to drop a comment here? Oops, that seems to be an antithema to your post itself. The content in ur post is great and you hit the nail on the head ny saying that blogs have to be one's thot process and not for the sake of readers.

"Blogs are supposed to be ur thots expressed in ur way. Lets just keep it at that!" - I agree completely. It's one's own trip in one's blog and the way you trip is your preference. But asking someone to comment on your trip then becomes a Catch 22 situation right? Like did u blog this post so that others would comment on it? But then that's exactly what you say bloggers shouldn't be doing.

I guess the whole problem is that some of us read others blogs to get content so that we dont end up turking ourselves. And from what I read in your post, you seem to be spending a lot of time anlaysing other's posts rather than just considering them as that blogger's own trip. Let them be, my friend..

I came here from a reference on DesiPundit. Since there is no HatTip Credits in that ref, I (may wrongly)assume that you must have directly tipped them about this post. If so, then you obviously wrote it for readership and comments. If not, someone who thought it was worth reading tipped DP off. Whatever, if you could dare close comments on this post right away and still continue to blog with the same frequency, probably I'll say "Yey I am the last to comment". But then as MenderBender would have said, "Oops", it would become another Catch22 situ.

Anycase, that was nothing personal cos I dont even know you. It was just banter....A Bloggers's Banter and this interaction, my friend, is the essence of Blogging today

So, Just let them be. Just let it go.. :-)

Priya Sivan said...

Came thro Desipundit. As starters, we tend to express only our thoughts. But comments motivate, inspire and what not and finally we end up biting our nails expecting more and more comments and also trying our best to give qulaity blogs. Best blogs (What we feel as best)sometimes get no comments, and the worst gets a lot of comments. Receiving comments is fun and interactive. Replying to comments and posting comments can be called blog etiquettes :) of course we do hv tools to know the site traffic but it is nice to get comments because we know where we stand.

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Anonymous said...

I have commited all the evils u have mentioned here.
I have one word to say in reply: "perceptions" :)
If i have to expand on that I will have to give u some of mine.

The blogger and the one who comments are happy about what they are doing and have every right to do what they want in the space they have. U too(as a neutral observer,forgetting for a moment that u are a blogger)have every right to feel that some of them are evil :) and then of course u can write blog about it too.

I usually decide on what i am going to comment before i read any other comments. Then i read the comments.
This way I stay true.

And sometimes when one doesnt know what to post in a blog, it may be becuase there is so much to say and prioritizing seems impossible.And if not knowing what to say is the most predominant thought in one's head why not say that out and get some idea from others??

Signing attendance is not bad either. It is just letting the other person know that u have read the post and that it is not going unnoticed.(but some may be just signing the attendace without reading it...lets leave them alone..;)

Signing the attendance first is a nice surprise! Sometimes u were so eager to read the writing style/idea/any other reason... u were nicely surprised to be there in the nick of time... that's all.

When an anonymous person comments, what is wrong in saying a welcome? What is wrong in having a bit of curiosity and visiting the other persons's blog?

I dont give a damn about hit rates, because my blog means something else to me.(I dont have too many hits anyways, so may be i shouldnt be the one to give an alternate perception on that! :)

"Truths and feelings are spiced up"...?? I agree that facts should be given as such and then an opinion may be added and then u hope that the reader will give an unbiased opinion. Guilty as charged when it comes to expressing feelings. But how do u describe an abstract entity without adding spice?? i mean how will describe a "feeling" that u have? Can u transfer the feeling to some one with exact amount of "hormones and heart beat and same electrical signals in the brain" and not to mention the other innumerable elements that are constituents to your "emotion". May be some people add too much spice that makes your eyes water or make u puke...but then who decides how much is enough?
Speak from the heart?So, the day u were born, u began to talk? I guess not! U learned. U learned by imitating, making mistakes, exploring and eventually thoughts directly come out as written words. So what should we do? Pass an examination before we start blogging?

>> "writing less about themselves, less about their feelings,".. sometimes talking about themselves can be such a pain and boring thing. I say "balance it"...

My blog is not perfect. Because i am not perfect.

Having said all this,
I agree on "Blogs are supposed to be ur thots expressed in ur way. Lets just keep it at that!".

This comment is just to show that there are many reasons for the same actions and things are not that simple. But what ever u have said may apply to the "average" or "majority". Only the person who does the deed knows why he/she did it. Finding out that motivation may be impossible, because the original motivation behind an action itself may have changed once the action was complete. But still it doesnt matter does it? The action has resulted in something despite the intentions and other intentions might have resulted in the same action and result...
hmmm... may be that is why "we should not commit all the evils?" even with what me might think is "the best intention?"...

so what am i saying here? Am i supporting u or against u?
Neither! I am just giving an alternate perception.
After a lot of thought, i leave this comment as anonymous;)

P.S:
I dunno what u were thinking when u asked some one to comment on your blog... I am teling myself :" He did that becuase he keeps an open mind about something even if he feels strongly about it"

Jade said...

Thought provoking. It's something I've been thinking about in relation to my own blog. It started out as nothing but a diary and then readers came and now I feel like I'm writing for them, not for me. Anyway, thanks for an insightful post.

Random Access said...

Thanks all u guys for ur varied opinions. I think all of u have a valid point or two, but what I wanted to highlight was the sense of interesting "relationships" that are born out of this blog world. Everyone is influenced by the environment that they grow up in, and I feel blogger is one such environment.

Just noted that this is the first blog of mine that has warranted 20 comments, so a bit surprised!

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