I've noticed that people seem to either misread or not fully read a lot of the blogs that show up on the front page. And I don't mean for lack of comments. I actually come to this conclusion due to the comments. :p

I don't bother reading the comments until after I've made my own. Personally, I do not leave a comment on a blog unless I have read the entire blog post first. First. I don't just skim it, scan it, or read the title and first line and/or paragraph, then decide I've got the gist of it and make a comment that makes no sense to the OP or anyone else who actually read the post.

These kinds of comments irritate me, even on other blogging or jounraling sites, because I don't see the point in them. Okay, some people don't have the time to read every blog post that shows up on the front page. That's fine. But, why bother giving an uninformed opinion? You sound a lot more intelligent if you...you know...sound like you know what you're talking about.

It's usually kind of obvious when this happens. Recently, I was reading a post on Lovelyish about the commenters needing to chill out, because recently they've been freaking out over the tiniest little things in very nasty ways. I don't bash anybody who disagreed with her. Nor do I bash anyone who agreed with her. That's not my point here, lol. I'm not here to say that if more people read entire posts then they would agree more with the OPs or that at least there would be less fighting in blog comments. That has nothing to do with this.

What I noticed, though, was that a lot of people seemed to think that the OP was trying to say people shouldn't give their opinions if they're opposing the OP. I didn't get that from the post at all. Not at all. What I got from it was that there is no reason to get so incensed from a post on a fashion blog. That doesn't mean you can't agree. Just kind of that the OP thought that someone who was getting screaming-angry at a post as simple and unimportant as a converse shoe post...really needs to take a step back and maybe...find a more intelligent and calm way of responding to the OP.

Why do people seem to think that if someone asks a community to calm down that they are asking them not to show their true feelings? Or that they are asking them not to disagree with each other? This is absolutely not what calming down means. This is absolutely not what giving a thoughtful, intelligent comment means.

You CAN disagree with someone and still comment without making yourself look like a freak. And you can show your true emotions and true feelings without looking or sounding like you are batcrackers and don't have the intellectual capacity to form a complete sentence with proper grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Now, if someone actively goes looking for a fight and personally calls you out...well, even I can't say what somebody should or should not do. Because, I have definitely responded to someone who couldn't handle a simply worded disagreement to their blog post because they personally responded to me.

To me, if someone is going to go out of their way to go after you, then they deserve what they get. And, I do agree that when someone even simply makes a post on a public blog that they are playing with fire if they aren't prepared for disagreements or even for flames. Some of those flames can turn into wildfires! And those are things you've got to be prepared for when you make public blog posts.

But, by all means, anyone can respond in any way they want to any blog. And nobody needs my permission or anyone else's! But, I don't know...I just thought that it would make more sense that if you really want to add a comment to a blog post, you would at least read the whole thing so that you don't make a fool of yourself in your comment. If there's no time, then what I usually do is just bookmark the post and come back to it later when I do have time. Otherwise, I just prioritize. If it isn't really important enough to take the time out to fully read, or to bookmark and go back to, then I personally (because I don't speak for anyone else) don't even bother to comment it obviously isn't that interesting to me. :p

I just never understood the point behind commenting without fully knowing what the post said. Because, in that case, usually what you get in the comments are people commenting about things you've already talked about in that same post and they were just too busy to bother to read it. When I find these comments in other people's posts, I admittedly have to wonder if they really didn't fully read the post or if they are just that stupid...

I usually choose to think they just don't read. :p

Then again, I suppose some people don't care if they sound intelligent or not?