Hmmm. I guess I've always had a personal DW where I talk about my day and make to-do lists, and when people comment, they're all people that I've known for a long time, usually in real life, and that's been true for me for the last 17 years of using LJ/DW, so it's a bit confusing to me when I'm having a threaded conversation with someone and having a nice back-and forth, and then someone else's comment gets shoved into my email inbox. When people reblog my stuff on tumblr, they may yell in the tags, or even in the reblog itself, but it doesn't land in my inbox in the same way -- I'd have to click on Notes or Activity to see it. The lack of a true conversation space on tumblr also makes the reblog comments seem less personal. If people say that I don't belong or I don't understand something, it feels less like a personal attack. I just tell myself that they don't know who I am, the original context of the post, or they are addressing their own audience. It's easier for me to choose whether to engage and respond to a reblog comment.
But as you said, I need to be more understanding of DW comment norms, and it seems like I just need to not see it as "my space". Or I guess I can just lock everything and close comments. Or delete comments? What are the DW norms for deleting comments that make me cry?
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Date: 2019-01-09 03:46 am (UTC)But as you said, I need to be more understanding of DW comment norms, and it seems like I just need to not see it as "my space". Or I guess I can just lock everything and close comments. Or delete comments? What are the DW norms for deleting comments that make me cry?