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[matt1993]

Decided it was time to update the blurb on my journal's sidebar now that I'm able to move past my worry sometimes. (But not enough that I'm not still waiting desperately for comments on certain entries...)

Anyway, the blurb was previously:

Comments

[glowing_dragon]

Yay for productivity on LiveJournal! I've been editing old community entries and tagging them as well. :D

[matt1993]

Yay for a comment!

I'd hate to have to keep asking the same question too many times, but did you ever see this entry (January 2), this entry (May 31), or this entry (yesterday)? The fact that only pathvain_aelien has commented on the first two of those (and no one's commented on the third one yet, but then it hasn't been up for very long) is making me wonder - again - if they make sense to anyone else or just to P_A and myself...

[glowing_dragon]

Yes, I probably did see those entries! I know you want comments on your entries, though, but I don't want to say the same thing too many times. ("Yay for an entry!") Keep in mind also that LJ is deader than it was ten years ago, so I certainly don't get many comments on my entries myself. Maybe I should participate in those friending memes that are going on... perhaps you should also, but only if that's your thing!

I know I update a lot myself, but I consistently get comments on Blogthings entries these days, mainly from endlessblush. That is okay by me, since I keep my journal as a blog for myself to detail what I did in my life.

[matt1993]

I know you want comments on your entries, though, but I don't want to say the same thing too many times.("Yay for an entry!") Keep in mind also that LJ is deader than it was ten years ago, so I certainly don't get many comments on my entries myself.

I understand. I'm not asking for everyone in my friends list to comment on every entry I've made (not even just for every entry this year, even though I haven't posted that often lately).

It's just that (as I said in the entry yesterday and the May entry - and in the May entry, I detailed new reasons why I feel this way), I still worry that the Forbidden Comment Threads have slowly and indirectly, but surely, been making me a misogynist for the past 3½ years...

P_A's comment on the May entry helped me feel better about it... kind of.

I have considered joining communities like add_me and newfriends (I forget whether there's supposed to be underscores in those names or not, but I haven't gotten around to it because I wanted to update my blurb, profile, interests list, glossary, etc. first. Which is

[glowing_dragon]

I know you're not asking for that. I just lurk sometimes!

Your worrying about the Forbidden Comment Threads just makes you want to improve yourself, in a way. If you didn't worry about it years later (given that they are significant to you), I'd be wondering whether you even realized the effects of those on you and others! Since you do, that's good.

I'm glad.

Those come up as valid communities on my computer when I clicked the links, so the links are good! :)

[matt1993]

I know you're not asking for that. I just lurk sometimes!

:) Of course I don't mind receiving comments either - I just didn't want to sound like I was demanding hundreds of comments or something. (Lately that's what I think I sound like every time I ask for comments on any specific entry...)

Your worrying about the Forbidden Comment Threads just makes you want to improve yourself, in a way. If you didn't worry about it years later (given that they are significant to you), I'd be wondering whether you even realized the effects of those on you and others! Since you do, that's good.

:)

[glowing_dragon]

It might sound like that if you updated as often as I do, and then add "COMMENT NOW OR I WILL DELETE YOU" at the end of every entry! I seriously used to know some girl who had a rule about commenting to her journal: "If you don't comment at least once a week, I will delete you!" If I did that, my friends list would consist of two people!

:)

[matt1993]

It might sound like that if you updated as often as I do, and then add "COMMENT NOW OR I WILL DELETE YOU" at the end of every entry!

I definitely don't have a rule like that (I've never even done a friends cut in the 6½ years since I first started being active on LJ or the 8 years I've even been on LJ at all), so I certainly hope I've never sounded like I had such a rule. If I ever did sound that way, I apologize. :(

[glowing_dragon]

You do not sound like that, and you have not ever sounded like that. I was just giving an example of someone who did sound like that!

[matt1993]

Phew :)

[glowing_dragon]

:)