Comments on: Blogofascism

By: Thomas Falzon

Thomas Falzon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:52 +0000

Reuben, we at LABOUR IN LABOUR meet regularly to discuss our blogging adventure (almost 4 months now) and we found your Blogofascism post of July 3 stimulating and thought-provoking.
Siegel is, of course, right. There is a tendency for some commenting visitors
to engage in a mote “vicious version of playground bullying”, possibly because “the bullies have the option of remaining unknown”. And of course (happens to us often) one “can’t confront them and, bizarrely, if you cry foul you automatically become a censor because you are telling people what to say and what to think”. He is also right that “invective sells blogs” and we do have our own “statistics at hand”: no sooner does a visiting commentator switch to f*** you mode that the number of average hits per hour doubles. Yes, we too are saddened that “a few blogs here (Malta, EU) are guilty of blogofascism too”. But we are less optimistic than you seem to be when you say that you “think that they do it just for kicks or – at worst – to be admired for their witty put downs”.
Come and share a cuppa o’ comments at our place when you feel like it.
Tom Falzon at http://www.labourinlabour.wordpress.com

By: Reuben Scicluna

Reuben Scicluna — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:34:11 +0000

Hi Claire. Glad to see you appreciate my … erm … efforts

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:48:33 +0000

One of the most interesting blogs I’ve seen so far – prosit Reuben

By: Kermenoo

Kermenoo — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:56:23 +0000

They would probably try their damnedest to avoid catching each other’s eye in case they’d have to speak to each other …

By: Bonello Sigmund

Bonello Sigmund — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:03:47 +0000

The other day I wondered what it would be like if, say, Mr Borg Cardona sat in a room with his on-line detractors. Would they go for his jugular with the same brutality that they do on-line or would things calm down somewhat in the tete-a-tete scenario?