One thing that can drive me crazy about the internet is how people tend to lambaste, more than they probably would in person. It hasn’t been a major problem on this website — I am proud to say I have deleted only one comment since I began writing online five years ago in July 2002 (four years for comments; I only installed Haloscan commenting in August 2003), which is pretty good for a seasoned weblog.
When I took on the daunting task of migrating 1,526 Haloscan comments and 1,113 Blogspot posts to WordPress on my current domain in December 2005, it was just before my very last Haloscan comment was posted, this little beauty — comment #1,527 (last entry). She took offense to the fact that I said pink was horrendous and obviously thought I was referring to her website. Not true at all — I liked the way her website looked, which is why I also use the Falbum plugin. It’s a well-known fact I don’t like pink, because I mention it plenty here. She called me an idiot, but the comment never showed up because she wrote it days after I moved and consolidated all the posts and comments to the domain. She probably thought I deleted her comment, but I didn’t. In fact, she wrote it the day David died and I could not have cared less if she’d driven to my house and burned down my garage.
Which brings me back to my original rant: that people spout off before they read everything. When I was in Paris a few weeks ago I showed Claude a comment someone had written under my wedding anniversary YouTube video of David carving our initials into the magnolia tree beside the house:
