Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Flame On!!!

A friend of mine recently received her first negative comment on her blog, and I was like...TOTALLY JEALOUS!!!

Let me explain. The goal of a blog is to get readers, now logic dictates that in order to be a reader you have to actually like what you are reading. I mean why would I want to read something that I didn't care about or didn't like? The main goal, however, is entertainment, and mind-bogglingly enough people love to hate.

So to me the greatest comment to receive is a negative one, because it (in a sense) validates your blog as being so popular that even people who think it sucks have to read it. Of course if the blog is openly offensive that's kind of cheating.

It's like when NBC realized that Howard Stern was the real deal. They took a poll of people who liked and disliked the show and of the folks who liked it (probably not 'folks' cause it was in NYC...maybe goyims, but then again I'm not Jewish) they listened on average for 2.5 hours. Then they rated the people who hated the show (who had to have listened at least once by default) and they listened to the show an average of 4 HOURS!!

Before they were called 'haters', now the world of teh intarwebs they are known as 'flamers'. Not gay (though they kind of are), but people who live to comment negatively on stuff.

Kudos to Melissa and her negative comment. I hope someday, someone will care enough to hate what I write too.

2 comments:

  1. YAY! Thanks for the linkage, this totally made my day. I have to be honest, I was pretty excited about my first negative comment too. At first I was like OH NO YOU DIDN'T and I responded with something about how I was excited that he was my first negative comment and that he was a total jackass. But I later decided that was childish so I just deleted it- no need to have negative comments on the blog. But it was a big moment. Here's to hoping you get your first hateful comment soon!

    ReplyDelete
  2. That seems like a weird thing to say though doesn't it?

    ReplyDelete