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The Friday Five for 10 August 2018: The Friday Five Ponders Journaling
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1. Do you like to reply to every comment in your journal?
2. What type of post gets the most/least responses in your journal?
3. What do you do when a new person first comments in your journal?
4. When you're reading someone else's journal, do you read every comment before adding your own?
5. When is "too late" to reply to an entry?
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1. Do you like to reply to every comment in your journal?
2. What type of post gets the most/least responses in your journal?
3. What do you do when a new person first comments in your journal?
4. When you're reading someone else's journal, do you read every comment before adding your own?
5. When is "too late" to reply to an entry?
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
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1. Do you like to reply to every comment in your journal?
My natural inclination is always to reply even if I don't have much to say :) And in fact, most of the time I do reply, even if it's just a "yes, that's interesting" or "thank you" or "good point" etc, because it seems friendly.
If I really have nothing to add, especially if I'm a little annoyed but feel like they didn't say anything wrong, I try to not reply, and to assume the comment can stand ok on its own.
2. What type of post gets the most/least responses in your journal?
The most responses are usually when a post is controversial, or goes on a tangent about some small-but-interesting point mentioned in passing :)
Nowadays, DW seems to get few comments at all, so many of my posts get no response. When comments were more usual, the ones that seemed to get few were when I posted diary-ish stuff that was mostly "what I did" without much "here's how I felt", and long posts where I tried to discuss some topic, but ended up rambly and didn't engage anyone.
3. What do you do when a new person first comments in your journal?
It's generally quite interesting! Nowadays, new commenters usually have something interesting to say, often it's "I saw your post on a friends' friend page" or "I saw your post on twitter or facebook" and then "I hope you don't mind me commenting, but I wanted to say..." and then usually something interesting about the topic.
I always make an effort to reply and be welcoming, and to say that comments like that are always welcome, and sometimes they stick around. If I got more vituperative comments, I'd be more zealous about screening comments from people.
4. When you're reading someone else's journal, do you read every comment before adding your own?
If there's a small to medium number of comments, I'm usually interested to read them. Although I've only slowly acquired the skill of thinking "I wanted to say this, but other people said it well already, so I don't need to say the same thing again" :)
If there's more comments, I try to skim to get a sense of the replies and search to see if anyone said the same thing I said, although I don't usually succeed perfectly.
5. When is "too late" to reply to an entry?
Never! That is, some conversations only make sense in real time. Comments saying "congratulations" or "I'm sorry, are you ok?" etc probably don't make sense retrospectively. But if you have something interesting to add, however small or minor, I welcome it even after decades :)