Not a drive-by posting! And cougars and jaguars and sabre-teeth, oh my!

[dakhun]

You know, if people are going to come back to LJ after an absence of several months, and make their "OMG I love LJ but it's too bad the volume of activity has fallen off" posts before hastily returning to Facebook, the least they can do is to REPLY to whatever comments they get on that post

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[dakhun]

Rabs, these are very good points. And thanks, I like your posts too - yours have always been among the ones I'd rate as the high quality journals. Interestingly, I take a slightly different route to commenting: I'll decide within 30 seconds whether I want to reply to a post (or comment) but I will let that sit for a few minutes to think of what I want to say. Sometimes it takes longer. Often, the best ideas come when I am thinking about something else later.

BUT... I actually wasn't soliciting for comments on this post. In fact, I can't recall ever demanding replies to a post on LJ, except for asking who wants to join a group filter. I was specifically referring to ONE type of situation: one in which people do a drive-by posting to LJ after a protracted absence, and then drive off abandoning the post to the four winds. It would be far better if they would circle back and reply to at least some of the comments. Because someone abandoning their only post in a year is going to make people wonder if they should bother replying the next time they see a rare post from that person. And then that lack of interactivity further discourages them from ever posting again. That was the point of my post.

In any other situation, the normal rules apply.