On one of my other blogs, I have received (so far) six comments on an old controversial post that doesn’t receive any comments anymore. It would appear that someone has sent a link to all their friends via email, because all the incoming paths are direct, often from internet mail URLs.
I have a comment stalker who is probably behind this, but I have know way of knowing for sure. The thing is, all of the comments say basically the same thing in different ways, and they all have a common aggressive tone. Having learned in the past to spot this tone, I am not approving any of them. I actually like true dissenting comments, but I know from experience approving comments with this tone doesn’t lead anywhere good.
All the commenters clearly want to rip my head off, but they’re trying their best to appear even tempered and rational. But one of the things that gives them away is their one-sidedness. They don’t address anything in my actual post. Some of them succumb to their urges by getting openly aggressive at the end, which is kind of funny. They’re like longer versions of this sentence:
Oh we’re all friends and love each other and it’s ok that you don’t like cookies… there are two sides to everything… but… WHY DON’T YOU LIKE COOKIES! TELL ME! YOU’RE A MORON! I HATE YOU!
For the record the post has nothing to do with cookies, which I actually love.
My comment stalker has this same tone, so either she has found people like her, or she is in fact posting all these comments. It’s kind of like they sent out an outline for people to follow and then they all followed the outline while purposely making the comments as diverse as possible. Anyway, it’s weird, and I think it’s kind of fascinating.
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