Having had a few of my posts linked to by newsletters (meta or just fandom) in the past, yes that is what happened. You would get an influx of new comments, sometimes when you were unable to handle it.
This also gets into "my vs community spaces". Until blogs, all spaces were shared (usenet, mailing lists, forums). Websites offered little interaction (unless you had a guestbook). Blogs were personally owned, so if you were linked in a newsletter and people came to your blog and disagreed with (not attack or mock, just offering a different opinions) it felt like an attack. And if it was an actual attack, it felt even worse.
The problem is that we tend to forget that the platforms we use shape how we interact with each other and how we react to one another. It took me a while to understand why I was so angry at someone coming into my blog!!!!! to make a counter-comment on my public post.
But spaces are now more public and shared/co-owned (twitter and tumblr). Facebook still has the feel of a "this is my place"
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Date: 2019-01-29 04:54 pm (UTC)This also gets into "my vs community spaces". Until blogs, all spaces were shared (usenet, mailing lists, forums). Websites offered little interaction (unless you had a guestbook). Blogs were personally owned, so if you were linked in a newsletter and people came to your blog and disagreed with (not attack or mock, just offering a different opinions) it felt like an attack. And if it was an actual attack, it felt even worse.
The problem is that we tend to forget that the platforms we use shape how we interact with each other and how we react to one another. It took me a while to understand why I was so angry at someone coming into my blog!!!!! to make a counter-comment on my public post.
But spaces are now more public and shared/co-owned (twitter and tumblr). Facebook still has the feel of a "this is my place"