Danny Ayers proposes an Enable Comments Week for those weblogs that do not have comments enabled. Like mine!
Why? Well the bloggers with comments disabled usually explain that the reason for this as either: they would get flamed too much and/or they haven't time to respond to the quantity of comments they'd get. These may be true, but how can they know? To the reader it can seem that the authors of said blogs simply have an arrogant disdain for their audience, and/or can't take criticism.
I freely admit to having an arrogant disdain for my audience and I can't take criticism. (I hate being corrected. You?) Ayers gives reasons for enabling comments, and rather good ones at that. They're almost moral appeals, but they are closer to addressing my personal interest. That said, I don't mind coming across as an egomaniac, because after all, “Blogging, is, at some level, the greatest ego-satisfaction engine created by modern technology; where else can someone gain a worldwide audience for his or her rants overnight?” Why else would I blog?
Ayers argues for a week with a U.S. holiday (blast those U.S.-centric bloggers!), and his Ayers' arguments are scarily convincing, and lo, there is a Canadian holiday week next week. That week also it turns out, to be a Richard-is-writing-3-midterms-plus-two-essays week, which is a convincing argument for me not to open comments for next week. There is also a U.S.-Canadian holiday week in November, however, although Americans, for some reason, call it Veterans Day. I propose that the week starting Sunday November 9th ending Saturday the 15th, to be "Enable Comments Week". If that week gets chosen, I'm willing to take part.
No doubt showing arrogant disdain for my audience, I will not open comments for this post. But You can comment on this post, or you are free to email me about it.
