A very nice ActiveRain member had a featured post a few days ago. Her post was very important and an article that should be spread around the internet to help consumers.
She used an analogy in her post so the beginning of the post was setting the tone and creating the story. I read the entire post. It was not very long.
Then I went to make a comment about her message to consumers but most of the comments were about something entirely different. Most of the comments were "me" focused having read only the first part of her post.
At first I thought that I was wrong so I went back to read the post again. I was not wrong. I got a totally different message as did a few others who commented.
But over 90% of the comments were drive by comments on a featured post. That was an interesting observation.
Now, this blogger, being the nice person she is, did not make a big deal out of it although she did make a comment about the drive bys going on.
Do you read the entire post before you make a comment? Personally I would rather have a, "Great Post" comment than a drive by comment. At least with "great post" it could mean you read my post but really did not have something to add, which is fine with me.
It is however somewhat insulting that someone leaves a comment and has NOT read your post. Why bother?
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