Writing about conspiracies

The most important thing I have learned is if comments are enabled, people will provide feedback sooner or later. At times, the feedback will be less than desirable. Life itself attempted to teach me that lesson a year or two ago. Months ago, the lesson reared it's ugly head, because I chose to ignore said lesson later on and I got ripped a new one by some of the readership here at LXer. ;)

That's the blessing and the curse of blogging itself. You'll get feedback and comments sooner or later. Some of it you will like, and some of it you will not. I commend Byfield for taking other comments into consideration and for being honest about who he was with his own personal blog.

Bruce B gives good blog, read and enjoy.

It's an interesting read, and I have read it a few times on occasion. I'm starting to feel inspired again...... Hmm....

I think he's a bit more affected by the negative crud than he's letting on. And I don't blame him. But it comes with the territory, unfortunately. Linux.com attracts an inordinate number of bitchy trolls who hate everything.

You forgot to mention spam-bots as well.............

I'm going to take a guess at this point though.... he wanted a place where he could let it hang out so to speak. Such a place would allow him to have the freedom of setting up ideas. However, with having a blog on wordpress.com, you better expect to have a response sooner or later, especially if your name is very well known.

I don't think many of the people responding to Byfield were trolls at all. I myself responded with a blog post of my own. Maybe we are misunderstanding him. Maybe he is going over our heads and not relating the material to us. Perhaps it was both.

Being a public figure of any sort in any arena can feel like being in prison at times. You're limited at times, because there will be plenty of people in line who want to interact with you, because of your name and who you are. When it comes to the net, I generally am considerate of what I type in a blog or on a forum because I know that anyone could be reading them at any time.

Then again, I could be completely full of it all the way up to my eyebrows. I've been wrong before. ;)