Yesterday's blogs created a phenomenal number of comments.<\/p>\n
I was officially on a day off (I saw spoonbill, kingfisher, willow warbler, garden warbler, stonechat and more). But that said, despite four to five hours of effort, it took me until mid-evening to clear comments that had come in, some of them many hours before.<\/p>\n
Let me put this in context. I suspect I moderated around 90 comments and replied to many of them.<\/p>\n
Those comments probably averaged around 300 words, with many exceeding 500 words, and one reaching at least 800 words. That means I may have moderated around 25,000 words - enough to fill half a book in some cases - and I was supposedly not working.<\/p>\n
I should also add that many comments required a lot of thought.<\/p>\n
I am also supposedly going to be referred to the police and others for racism and hate crimes for calling out genocide and being anti-Semitic, which, very obviously, except to those who demand that the Israeli government be given a special and exclusive right to commit genocide and operate an apartheid state, I am not.<\/p>\n
I have to wonder, though, whether that level of interaction is something I can really manage on any day if other things are to be done, including developing the thinking to which I referred in the day's video (and today's).<\/p>\n
So a question. If I were to impose a word limit on comment length, would that be fair, or would it harm the blog? Two polls then:<\/p>\n
Poll 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Should there be a word limit on comments on this blog?<\/strong><\/p> Total Voters: 459<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n Poll 2<\/strong><\/p>\n If there was a word limit on comments, what should it be?<\/strong><\/p> Total Voters: 443<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t
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