Observation

[gothwalk]

When you post something small and silly on a mailing list, or on LJ, or on a blog, you get responses. But if you post something meaningful - or, in some cases, meaningful to you - it sinks like a stone. I surprised myself a while back by being used to this and thinking "Excellent, no responses."

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

My paranoia levels depends on what mood I'm in. Because I know in my own experience, sometimes I don't post a comment because I'm not sure what to say (because it's out of my experience, or I don't feel I quite know the person well enough to phrase things right) even though I want to say something, and sometimes I don't post comments because, well, the post itself is just boring.

So applying the same logic to my own posts... means I've either opened a whole new world of thoughts to people, or I'm just plain dull.

Maybe we should all just make an effort to say "Wow, that's beautiful/thoughtful/etc" or say "*hugs* thinking of you/hope it all goes ok/good luck/etc". Then we'd all know that our commentless posts were just boring :)

Actually, occasionally I mean to post but then work interferes and I just plain forget (which is what happened with inannajones' post with her health concerns - I didn't have anything useful to say, but did want to express sympathy. Sorry).