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Jumping to conclusions online

Posted by pseudoname on April 8, 2006, at 13:10:36

I do it offline, too, but in the last few weeks...

(1) I posted a comment at a psychotherapist's blog. I thought it was a really good, interesting, friendly comment, sure to get a reply from her. Nope. Two weeks went by. She responded to other people's comments, but not mine. I was so frustrated & hurt.

Today I happened to notice that she had actually posted an entirely new, long, nice, very thoughtful ARTICLE in response to my comment the day after I left it! I'd just been looking in the comments list, so I didn't realize that. Oops!

(2) About 10 days ago I tried to comment at a very popular science blog where the comments are screened by the owner before they appear. My comment was tight & pithy & had links for references, but it never got posted. Eight hours later another comment by someone else saying about the same thing but sloppily constructed, mean-spirited & without references WAS approved. I blamed myself & my detestable aura, which is detected even in ascii format, for this failure.

Last night I realized that I had inadvertently left the email line blank on my submission, meaning that the system never even put it through. It was never received. So I wasn't rejected. It was a computer glitch!

(3) I was really upset and frustrated with someone for a testy exhange we'd had online a few months ago. I was carrying the hurt feelings against that person for over a month. But then I checked the archives and Wow! It wasn't even them I'd been arguing with! Pretty silly on my part. I don't even know who I'm mad at. LOL.

I don't know if there's any lesson I can learn here. It'll probably happen again...


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