Comments on: The Intrigue of Handwritten Notes

By: gourlay

gourlay — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:38:13 +0000

The only reason I read this article is because I saw the four comments.

By: tc

tc — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:10:48 +0000

Gourlay is trying to stay relevant after he fizzled out of his blogging career.

I think the fascination behind the comment is a similar idea that the people who are commenting are not supposed to be commenting. An author is a requirement to the creation of a post but no one is required to leave a comment. When someone does it’s like, “ohhhh, someone left a comment.”

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:24:33 +0000

Agree about the comments. Gourlay has been putting in a lot of effort to leave a degrading comment on every one of my posts. I’ll have to check if each individual post is getting more views because people are clicking on the comments.

By: Tom Stortz

Tom Stortz — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:10:38 +0000

I suppose you could read it that way. I remembering writing that your post sucked and not that the idea sucked. I’m also not sure that the two posts have direct correlation where this is the idea of reading something private verse you writing something private. I do try to comment on comments though so that’s what I’d write to yours.

Just as an outreach from this post, people love reading comments more than they like reading posts. The blog would be better if the post was just a few lines and then the rest of it were only comments. I guarantee more people would read them.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:38:45 +0000

So my post about keeping a personal, handwritten journal, is garbage, while this post glorifies the intrigue and uniqueness of the exact same idea.