mild meta curiousity

[waider]

I notice that lately I seem to be garnering far less comments on my lj entries. This leads me to conclude (a) I'm writing stuff that noone's interested in; (b) I'm stating the case so precisely and correctly that noone feels they have anything useful to add; (c) jeez, waider, get over yourself, I have 40 more journals to read today. I'm not put out by the lack of comments; much as I like having an audience of any size, I recognise the fact that a lot of what's here is little more than pinging noises to reassure people that I've not, as Bob put it, "been killed in some tragic accident involving alcohol, geekery, GPS and high voltage". I'm just curious as to reasons, if there are any. Feel free to, er, comment.

Comments

[wisn.livejournal.com]

(d) It's August and everybody's either on holiday or too strung out by the weather to be creative.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking longer term than that, but hey.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I've been too busy washing my animals down at the park.

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Geez waider etc.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU, WAIDER!

[waider.livejournal.com]

Damn, I've still got it.

Whatever "it" is.

[tigresse.livejournal.com]

Comment whore!

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Now that my friends list has reached 41, I think I have to go for (c), if only for reasons of mathematical accuracy.

Being serious, or at least semi-serious, I dunno. My commenting urge arises in a pretty arbitrary fashion, so I can't predict what will prod that particular neurone. I suspect that certain types of topic, while not necessarily more interesting per se will provoke more response from the readers. For example, ISTR that you were having landlord problems and related fun experiences a while back, which seems like the kind of thing which will provoke a lot of sympathetic noises from the audience. Also, there is a point to (c): there are more people on LJ and other weblog servers these days, so the comment-urge of the reader tends to be spread a little thinner...

Oh, and what tigresse said. :)

[suzylou.livejournal.com]

I'm just scared of sounding dumb :)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I wish i were.

[omarius.livejournal.com]

Boy did THAT sound dumb.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Waaaah!