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Thursday, March 30, 2006


A Word On Comments

I've often said that the only I started writing Say Anything was to try and reach people as interested in politics as I am. My fiance, friends and family are all, for the most part, pretty a-political. They just don't get the kick out of talking and debating that I do. This blog was, and is, my outlet for my politics, and comments are a big part of that. Without the comments this blog wouldn't be half as fun as it is.

In the past I have prided myself on responding to everyone who cared to post a comment in response to one of my posts. I had the blog set up to send me email notifications every time somebody posted a comment so that when I had time I could always catch up on a discussion and respond to the things being said. Unfortunately, over the last few months, these comment notifications have just become too much. There are anywhere between 300 - 500 new comments posted on this blog every single day and I just can't keep up anymore. The notifications overflow my inbox and I end up just not reading most of them.

So, for the sake of keeping my sanity, I've turned off comment notifications for me. I'd note that this is a notification system on my end. The subscribe to comments feature will continue to work as normal.

I still hope to remain involved in discussions here, but this means that if somebody responds to a post by addressing me directly I may or may not catch it and if someone comes along later and replies to a comment I've made in a discussion I may not catch that either. In fact, there's probably plenty of responses directed at me that I've missed in the past. If I did, I'm sorry, but I just don't always have time any more to reply to everybody, write the posts and monitor the comments for spam and accidentally blocked comments.

I don't want anyone to get the idea that I'm avoiding them, so if you've posted something in a comment that you think I should see feel free to shoot me an email and I'll check it out.

Anyway, that's it. Probably you all don't care, but I thought I'd post an explanation just the same.

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