In a comment on Neil Clark's victory, J writes:
If nothing else, it proves that nobody reads the Eustonite blogs. Despite the fact that Oliver Kamm seems to write practically every comment (not always under his own name) on at least one of them. I mean, wouldn't you have thought that the masses would throng to imbibe such wisdom?
Poor soul, what else does he have to do now that he's all but unemployable as a journalist, and might be completely so after this icing on the cake? He's all alone with only his inherited wealth to play with.
Anyway, since everyone else clearly ignores these sites, then hopefully so will you from now on. They're not worth it. They're not worth anything.
Well, I'll try...
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I posted a comment on his blog congratulating him and asking him about his candidacy for Wantage. He hasn't put it up, despite putting up other comments left later...
ReplyDeleteWell, it was off-topic, wasn't it? Like here in fact. Why don't you email him?
ReplyDeleteDavid, I'm not altogether sure that Neil's victory - which as you must be aware was assisted by his multiple posts urging people to vote for him every 24 hours - actually constitutes PROOF that "nobody reads the Eustonite blogs".
ReplyDeleteI mean, with the best will in the world, the number of comments on the average post at Harry's Place dwarfs those at yours, Neil's and Exile's combined.
Fair play to Neil, he won, but going by the amount of traffic and comments his blog gets, it's still small fry, and yours - no offence - is not on the radar.
"I mean, with the best will in the world, the number of comments on the average post at Harry's Place dwarfs those at yours, Neil's and Exile's combined."
ReplyDeleteYou should see just how many I have to reject every day. I've already devoted all morning to it, and I might well have to devote all eveing to it. This is not unusual. Of course, many of them make great play of the claim taht no one reads this blog.
Really? That suggests several hundred unpublishable comments a day. What kind of thing do they say? What is it that makes them unpublishable?
ReplyDeleteOr are they spam of the "Please visit my Viagra website" variety? Lots of people get those - it doesn't imply a great readership, as they're just posted automatically by spambots.
I've never had one like that. Lots of emails, of course. But never a blog comment.
ReplyDeleteOh, obscene, abusive Eustonite rubbish. Reams and reams and reams of it, every day. With well over half saying that nobody ever visits this blog or cares what is written on it. They might be very expensively educated, but that expense would have been more than necessary, since they are really not very bright.
Seriously, you should publish it. It might be rubbish, but that would help to discredit the Eustonites.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's possible, also, that it's a single crank, working independently and alone, writing and posting reams and reams of stuff in the vain hope that someone will read it. What do you think?
Well, if it is, then he (probably not she) must never, ever sleep. Or eat. Or work. Or anything.
ReplyDeleteNo, a lot of this material is very unpleasant. I wouldn't dream of publishing it.
I haven't sworn or been abusive in any conceivable way, nor have I expressed 'Eustonite' opinions (whatever they are) - and I believe I've had just one comment published out of about four.
ReplyDelete(Make that two if this one goes through).
The crucial difference between Harry's Place and this site (and Neil Clark's) is technical rather than content-based - and that's that they don't pre-vet comments, so it's possible to get a genuinely live dialogue going in a way that's very difficult here, as you can't be certain:
(a) if your post will appear at all, or;
(b) when it will appear, and;
(c) when any responses might be let through;
(d) if all the responses have been let through.
And while there are plenty of lunatics commenting at HP (though the most notorious multi-persona sock-puppet, W J Phillips, was strongly anti-war, and many of his views chime more or less perfectly with those of the British People's Alliance), there are also several exceptionally eloquent, knowledgeable and reasonable commenters - S.O.Muffin being a very good example. Tarring them all with the same brush is one-note propaganda at its shrillest.