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February 15th 2007. in defense of commentators, follows-up

because I like the strain that came out with it, all pissed off, I decided to quote myself from a comment I just made here. Always in defense of commentators:

...I never read Genna's blog... but I read the post you talk about. I totally disliked it. Patronizing and bossy. And really exaggerated. He wants us not to do this way, he wants us to do the other way... typical italian famous blogger. He seems convinced that the simple fact of deciding to have a role as "the one who writes the posts" vs. "the one who writes comments" makes you special. What an ass. The point is not "creating content". It all depends on the quality of the content you create. Or the honesty of it. And if your posts are dishonest, they can still give you many readers and many comments. Or not. So what that proves? Nothing. If you're dishonest you can get a lot of pointless comments that sneer at you. In that case the comments are probably better than the content. (Comments are a different kind of content too, so the whole pretext is stupid anyway.)
I think he's putting those who provide content on a pedestal only because he's one of them.
And he compares writing comments to vomiting! He can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
And anyway. Nobody seems to conceive spontaneity as something more than anarchy to be regulated. That's so wrong. The way I see it, spontaneity is the only decent fertile common ground we should try to preserve, and let be. Montessori wasn't on the mille lire for nothing.

ps. thanks to maateo for providing the occasion. Hell, in a vomiting comment.
pps. In a totally unrelated issue, I want to notify that I have worked it out with the "write" page. Now it actually serves the purpose to write to me. Oh, and there's also a "phrases" page now. Always just in case you were interested.


 
 

 

One Response to “in defense of commentators, follows-up” :

Giorgio said

commentators of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your nick

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