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And no, I am not talking about reading Tolstoi and discussing how the social standing of women in feudal society is represented in Anna Karenina, but the ability to read a simple fucking blog post and understand the main point in it. I’m getting sick and tired of all the down right stupid comments people make because they haven't read the post they comment on.
I get that some of the comments are made by bots, and some people have trouble with the English language (which btw is not my mother tongue either), but it’s quite clear when you are not even trying. Sometimes it even looks like a person fell onto the keyboard, and I’m pretty sure Google Translate didn’t suggest that.
I don’t mind if someone comes to see my posts just for the pictures, but don’t start asking questions before you read the post, there might already be an answer there! Most often I clearly state camera details and in what country the pictures are taken, so look for those before you ask, I don’t intentionally hide the facts.
Why are you asking about something that is clearly statet in the post itself? Are you even gonna read my answer to you? Most platant examples are when what ever someone is asking is literally already typed as the title of the post, or is one of three sentences in the whole post. I know we live in a world of fast-everything, and everything in social media needs to be easily digested, but I’m not writing 10000 word articles.
Post title: SUNSET
Comment 1: Is this a sunrise, i love sunrise, new day.
Comment 2: Is this the moon?
Only sentence in my self portrait post: Me shot by me with the Nikon D7200.
Comment 1: Who is the model? She pretty.
Comment 2: Who takes your pictures? He is good.
Comment 3: What camera you use?
I wish these were exaggerated examples but no such luck, people are really this dumb and these are all recurring comments.
Another thing that makes me mad is taking things out of context. This happens every other day. A person reads half a sentence from the post, or even just one word, crabs on to that and ignores everything else, completely missing the main point. For example, my post about procrastinating about good things, where most of the comments were just talking about procrastination when avoiding unpleasant tasks, which was pretty much the opposite of what I was talking about. I’m also quite astonished by the lack of understanding when it comes to sarcasm, irony and humour. Are you all three-year-olds!?
I get quite a good amount of comments and I hate wasting my time going through all the shit to get to the real comments. I don't understand what you gain from commenting something totally irrelevant or trying to promote your own shit in my post. That just gets you either ignored or flagged.
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