The reason some comments never make the light of day
Some of the faithful posters, (howcum they are all called anonymous?) are noticing that comments are sometimes, rarely, not appearing. This is not my doing - I do not censor comments, or ignore them either. All comments, even the ones I disagree with, are posted. But the posting process is simple and it breaks down at times. When one comments the comment is supposed to be emailed to me for approval. However at times Google fails to email the comment and thus I think nobody is commenting. But the comment goes to another page to await moderation, this is where I find them. I then put them up. I will in future try to check the moderation page more often. Keep the comments coming!
7 comments:
Thanks for the explanation, and sorry for the pique. I guess when you're used to being ignored you get sensitive about it. Patience will be my watchword from here on out.
This one did come via email
Has there been a demographic survey of the Ben Burd Blogburg? There seems to be more Anonymous individuals in BBBlogburg than Smiths in Cobourg or Wongs in North York or Mohammeds in Mecca.
Anonymity is the perversonality of the age. Anonymity is like wearing a burqa or hijab; it conceals particularity, and presents generality. Anonymity is a means to avoid taking ownership of opinion.
Anonymity is the cloak of cowardice worn by those who fear they won’t be taken seriously because of some perceived gender deficiency, or fear that their lives might become a tad complicated because of the tangled vested interests of a small town, or they lack the confidence of their convictions.
Anonymity permits full frontal opinions without fear of embarrassment. Anonymity permits public exposure to a private individual. Anonymity is no one in particular, just anyone in general.
W. H. Auden wrote in his essay, The Poet & the City, “A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odourless.”
Perhaps Anonymous is synonymous with dime-a-dozen? Perhaps Anonymous lost all their imagination chips at the Casino for Commoners? Surely there is one Anonymous capable of being Pseudonymous.
Ok, so Mr One Mind Keeler is down on Anonymous.
Anonymity is like Parliamentary privilege – it facilitates the free exchange of ideas. Ideas are most clear when they are bereft of the baggage of superfluous posturing, gender bias’, ethnocentricities, racial status, religious affiliations, class distinctions.
Anonymity is like a nudist camp. The CEO is indistinguishable from the butler; the playing field is level. So it is with the presentation of ideas. It's the idea that is important, not its presentor.
Get the idea?
Very well said Ms. Representation.
Sometimes adding the name is only to satisfy the need of the writer for attention and nothing more.
I agree that it is the message that counts, not who penned it.
One of the greatest devices to diminish attention-getting egotistic show-offs while simultaneously maximizing anonymity is the burqa.
The burqa safely conceals all the look-at-me devices that many women utilize to enhance their individual femininity, to flash/flesh their egotistic female personalities into the public domain. They resort to depilation and nylons to enhance the curvatures of their legs, push-up-&-separate bras and lingerie, cosmetics, etc – all with the sole purpose of drawing attention to themselves.
The burqa obliterates the baubles, decorations, distractions and presents only the pure unadorned idea of WOMAN.
Ms Representation deludes herself if she thinks nudism levels the playing field. The flabby short-stemmed CEO may be without his power suit, power car & state-of-the-art comm device, but next to the virile stable boy, he is a worn-out paragraph in a D.H. Lawrence novel.
And it is sure that the nubile under-grad trumps the frump with breasts saggong like a cloth change purse containing $3.49 in change. We know who turns heads and who doesn’t and we know what writers inspire the turning of pages and which ones go into the remainder bin.
The burqa accomplished what Ms Representation espouses and dime-a-dozen anonymous embodies.
Wally Keeler wrote
"Sometimes adding the name is only to satisfy the need of the writer for attention and nothing more." -- anonymous
That is probably the prime reason the author attached their name to the poem they submitted for publication in the high school poetry anthology, Refraction.Vol.1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8039250@N08/sets/72157603540418863/, or Vol.2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8039250@N08/sets/72157603541259231/ the name was a marking of turf; attention, this is mine.
Outside of Cobourg I conducted my artistic/poetic affairs anonymously. I published and exhibited under several pseudonyms related to the Peoples Republic of Poetry. It was a strategy to attract attention to my work, but not to me. There are poems published in many literary/art journals, but not under my name. Modesty on my part had nothing to do with it.
There have been occasions when I wrote letters to the editor and requested that my name be withheld because the contents admitted to criminal activity - the letters had been published.
There were other occasions when I wrote letters to the editors of the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, etc. And had others sign them - they too were more often published, than not. This was done because the subject was about the internal affairs of East European countries and what would someone named Wally Keeler know about that, however, Ivan Ivanovitch would know. In other instances the subject matter dealt with women's issues and if it were criticized by a male it was sour grapes, but if signed by a female, it was published. (eg. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2091953511&context=set-72157603244422857&size=l
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Anonymous presents the idea that attaching the name to the writing is sometimes the sole and exclusive reason of obtaining attention, well duh, yes I agree. I do it often. In parallel simultaneity, I also own up to my words. I take the fall as well as the praise. I stick my neck out and sometimes get my head cut off. I live as I see fit, regardless of posturing tut-tuts. If some small-minded individuals cannot get past a name to appreciate the idea, then that is their pre-judged impediment. Sometimes, those who remain anonymous, are like grassy knoll snipers, taking potshots behind the burqua of anonymity - they like to draw blood, back-stabbers. I'm up front.
When I attach my name to my posting, then that is nakedness. I'm not covering up anything or otherwise practising a deceit via pseudonym or anonymity. It should be apparent to those with critical ability to discern that my writing style is obvious and transparent regardless of the pseudonym or anonymity I utilize.
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