Comments on: Disclaiming Drama: A Critique

By: Hiro

Hiro — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:07:04 +0000

Hehe. I read your entry a little bit, and expected a few flames for comments, but found none. :O

I think no one has the right to put “bitches to their place” when they are bitching about other people. :/ Not to insult her or anything.

But I mean… to put up people’s sites and then rant a bout them is a little harsh. She could have said like, “there’s a person who has a winged penis on his layout and…”
I wouldn’t want someone to be blogging about me with my name and site and everything… D:

By: Belinda

Belinda — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:03:03 +0000

A little! I was a tiny bit apprehensive about criticising Rhiannon; she has a big fan following and for good reason as she writes quite well. I wrote in such a way to make sure I don’t come off as offensive while making my arguments, in case her more defensive fans might take it the wrong way. But that didn’t happen at all which is great.

I otherwise weren’t expecting drama over it though. Most of my readers are mature, intelligent people who can respect one’s right to have an opinion. I didn’t link to someone who is immature and I weren’t trying to inflame. So yeah, it all went quite smoothly. I guess this might be kinda like testing the waters a little; I now would feel more comfortable about critiquing in the above manner against people whom my readers might know, without expecting a personal flame war.

By: Jem

Jem — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:46:16 +0000

Did it surprise you that you got such a good response to this?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:09:14 +0000

So do I, which is why I ask about it. It’s never been the easiest thing to use, which I wonder about. And I’m planning on moving back to WordPress soon, which is why I’ve been thinking about plugins for it lately.

By: Leila

Leila — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:42:48 +0000

Wow.

I don’t have much to say on this, other than that I admire your ability to present an opinion and Rhiannon’s ability to take it constructively. That said, both of you are awesome. The only disappointment is the lack of incited e-drama. Oh, e-drama!

By: Rilla

Rilla — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:39:21 +0000

I’m too shy/nice/well-mannered to rant more. XD

(Your threaded comments thing look so cool. I wonder how it works without Javascript…)

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:10:23 +0000

Great article! Even though I try not to get involved with online drama, I admit, I do make fun of certain sites…

By: Vera

Vera — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:45:04 +0000

So true… but I still enjoy all that: you know guilty pleasure and all that. The again comparing PSGR to MABW is a tab bit extreme IMHO :P

But that’s true, Dick doesn’t try to justify himself. Very good rant though :)

By: Sarai

Sarai — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:46:08 +0000

Well said.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:32:48 +0000

I managed to get it working again after a lot of fiddling with it (it didn’t work at all for me before, but apparently there’s a snippet of code you need to put in the header). It’s very hard to integrate other comment plugins with it, but I do like having my comments threaded.

Thanks for telling me about the subscription thing! I’ve deleted the former one. :)