Everyone seems to think that I should change. I ain't gonna change. I write how I write. If you people think I'm narrow minded, it's because I am. I know only one way of life, if you wanna expound, start discussing it in the comments. Don't gimme any crap about "Oh, you write 80 articles a day and none of them are good". I'm trying to start an honest, on-topic discussion of serious real-life issues, and you complain because one of your articles gets pushed out of the recent articles list. Would you just prefer I left?
I would like to second Dr Guy. I generally disagree with most of the fine folks here on most of the topics discussed. But I thoroughly enjoy the discourse and feel no enmity either way. If things really do start bugging you Erathoniel, there is a handy feature called a blacklist. If I might offer some advice, don't take things to personal. It's just the internets after all
I don't care if you stay or if you go.
You're profusion of irritating articles is irritating, but I am under the impression you delete a lot of comments written in your articles. Maybe I'm mixed up with someone else.
If that is you, then I don't really think that you have room to say that you are trying to start discussion if you are deleting things people write off your blog. Again, if this is not you, I apologize. I don't read your blog usually.
Anyway, if you want to discuss real life, controversial issues at JU then you need to have a thick, thick skin. This is a very different thing from having a thick, thick skull. Some people don't know the difference and I don't know enough about your blogs to know if you do or not.
Nope, that's him.
Again. It's him.
He doesn't know the difference at all.
My answer, in a word? For most people it would be no. For you?
Yeah.
This isn't a "we hate Erth" club...so by all means stay. It's not in our power to decide who stays and who goes anyway.
It's great you are writing....I mean if it means that much to you, then wonderful...but maybe you can save a few of those ideas for a rainy day...instead of posting them all at once....
Most of the topics you are writing about have been discussed ad nausea on this site, and discussed BETTER. A little research would save you the backlash of the community and you might learn something.
Here is what is annoying. You're hogging JU. Ruining the experience and fun of it for other players.
And in doing so losing any credibility you *may* ever have.
Stay or go? That's up to you. But unless and until you start sharing don't expect lots of warm fuzzies from the crowd.
I try to delete comments due to objections with the content, not the views, of the comments.
Again, I'm not hogging it. It's not like I eat up 90% of JU's bandwith. I'm simply posting a lot of articles. I'm also bringing my opinions, and I believe that more visible support for certain issues can have a potent effect, even if I may not argue it the strongest.
If you don't wnat to change, don't. Just expect to continue to be ignored and never find your articles featured. Nature will take care of itself after that. {crickets chirp}
Terp, you do realize that I get featured often. I have four popular articles, and I've gotten multiple featured ones. It's the responses I'm getting that are negative, and I'm getting plenty.
I have no idea what you are trying to express in this sentence. It sounds like you are trying to weasel out of having honest discussion you claim to desire even though you are deleting people's comments. "Deleting the content not the views?" I can only guess at the minute differentiations that make up your logic. Again, you seem to be separating carmine buttons from scarlet buttons when most people just see red buttons.
Won't be coming back to your blog. It doesn't make sense to me.
momijiki, I'm not deleting comments because they disagree with me. If you swear in a comment, or put in content I percieve as objectionable (language, offensive content), I will delete it.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Doesn't mean it last's long though.
I'm interested in discussion of multiple controversial topics, that, if merged together, would be near-impossible to comprehend.
You could change if you wanted to but if you choose to continue to blog in a way that has been made quite clear to you as annoying, you'll ether be abused or ignored. Just as you would be in your personal relationships if you acted that way.
Pleas know if you do decide to leave I will support your decision 100%.
@ Texas: My first article, one on Roguelike Game Design, was featured.
I would if the subjects could comprehensibly fit together.
I've had one featured article, and many popular ones. I never check the forums.
I'd actually prefer that others get to keep replying to you, Era, because they find it extremely entertaining from what I can tell. I would hate for that fun to get ruined on princliple, but a line has to get drawn somewhere. It is this thing that InBloom just said that you don't seem to understand.
There are some writers here on JU that I find amazing. (Some may not even know I feel that way as I often lurk more than I post). If one of these people takes a lot of time to research and write an article about something, it would be nice if it was on the recent articles list long enough for most people to get a chance to see it there. If you show up and crank out 10 one paragraph articles, it knocks the other recent articles off of that exposure list. Please tell me you were just ignorant to that fact. I do not want to believe that you knew it was a fact and did it anyway, but I'm pretty sure I've seen others tell you in the past, and I'm pretty sure you said you didn't care. (And if you ask me to find it, I'll have to laugh in your face. It's in one of your articles - it would be like finding a needle in a haystack.)
@ Texas: You're saying this "deleting thing" is annoying, but I try never to delete a comment that is merely arguing a point. However, if I fail to see a point in the argument (not a point I disagree with, it's point is too vague), I make a reference to the original comment (I'd quote, but I generally only delete comments with little worth to the discussion), to allow re-posting with a clean-up and argument attatched. I'd go deeper on the thoughts if I could have a discussion on them.
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