Eccentric Flower talk:201105/Suppression

ProfRobert:

The rants are interesting to read because they are well written and raise interesting issues -- even if I disagree with some of them, they are still interesting. This meta-rant is less so; I'd much rather have read this morning's first-order rant.

The Tumblr items I like best are the ones where you add your commentary. If it's just a photo or a one-off link, there's not really much for me to react to, and as I've said before, the great value to me of your various journal sites has been the conversation among you and your readers, and that's what I miss in the new regime. (And none of that is intended as a rebuke or demand for change. I would never presume to tell you how to conduct your on-line existence -- well, at least so long as I'm not paying a cent for it.)

-- 22:37, 2 June 2011 (BST)

Bunny42:

What he said. But you already knew that.

-- 02:36, 3 June 2011 (BST)

Peebles:

Hey, you wrote this without telling us. That's cheating.

Two rebuts:

- How many times have you encouraged me to rant more often? At least three or four. There's something wonderful about reading a good, long rant, even if you don't agree with it. It's not often you get to see a little fountain of unadulterated emotional response dressed up in words and sent stumbling about the universe like the golem. You like it just as much as we do, don't you try to pretend otherwise.

- You don't come across as a curmudgeon. You come across as a big fluffy kitty trying to do a scary growly face, but you're still a big fluffy kitten. I pinch your cheeks.

-- 16:58, 16 June 2011 (BST)