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[mirrorshard]

This is a public service announcement, inspired by a discussion with nou about why some posts and indeed some posters garnered more attention than others.

I like comments, including ones that go off on a rambling tangent and start conversations with each other. Comments on the subject matter of the post are especially welcomed, but as far as I know they're still not rationing space here.

If nobody comments, I have no idea whether anyone read it or not. If I have evidence that people read it and enjoyed it, I will most likely post more of it. If I'm feeling nice, I'll even do requests. Alternatively, if you dislike my rambling and wish I'd just delete the journal entirely, please say so and I shall take the appropriate steps¹.

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1. Please don't forget to leave your full address and postcode when you do.

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[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I comment when I have something useful to say.

And, being somewhat unoriginal, I find that other peoples' ideas are far more likely to draw my interest and set off a train of thought that can be captured in an interesting and entertaining reply. Much of the best writing that I do - and some of the oddest - is in the comments on other journals.

It follows that my own journal is somewhat repetitive and banal, attracting very few comments in its own right, except for those occasions when I recognise that I'm on someone else's journal writing a comment that is, effectively, hijacking their space; in those cases I credit the original idea and put up the comment as a post in my own LJ.

Said hairyears, who wandered in from pfy's journal.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I know what you mean about hijacking space and deciding to kidnap the idea for further thought instead - I quite often do that to newspaper pieces and the like, too. Things rarely come ex nihilo.

[kake]

"[...] in those cases I credit the original idea and put up the comment as a post in my own LJ."

Do you leave a comment on the original post so people know to come over and look?

(And why have I not added you to my friends list yet? Now fixed.)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Do you leave a comment on the original post?

When that happens, yes - Although I only started doing so consistently in March 2005 - It's not just courtesy to do so, what with it being their ideas sparking it all off; there's also the likelihood that, if they blog about it, they want to know what other people think about it. Whatever 'it' may be. The point is that they probably don't want their journal hijacked!