I often have to restrain myself from commenting on every post.

Why would you want/need to restrain yourself from commenting? I'd rather think it would be a cool thing to want to comment on every post I read.

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Well, there's a fine line between being an interested reader and a crazy stalker. ;D I'm sure more than one person has seen me comment and thought, "Oh, Lord, it's her again." I think most people actually do want comments to their posts but there's a limit to how much interaction they might want with someone. It depends on the person.

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Yeah, it depends. I know I have stalker-tendencies myself sometimes, but really, in my opinion there's no such thing as commenting too much.
The "it's her again" thing would only apply if the commenter was a notorious flamer or otherwise impolite person.

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I usually take my cues from the responses I receive. I know there are some people who tend to reply to every comment and I feel pretty free to blather on endlessly on their journals. ;D But I try to restrain myself on the ones that reply only occasionally. And for those who seem to reply to most comments except mine, well, I may still find them intriguing enough to want to still read their posts, but I make a mental note not to comment.

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I try and read everything if I've got time. I've been sick and house hunting this week, so I missed a whole day of posts and I feel terribly out of the loop!

There are some people on my r/l journal whose entries I find myself consistently skipping over. They're almost always from the same few people. I like most of them well enough but the posts are always in-jokes and things like, "Sally, you'll remember that funny comment Patrick made last September" but with no context and no follow-up. I feel a bit bad, but I don't understand anything of it so I've stopped paying attention.

I almost never comment on things that my tech friends post. I can use a computer, but I'm no programmer, and I feel that if I comment on technical things I fear I'll just sound like an idiot.

If you want, I can friend your LJ with my real life LJ and then you can see pictures of my kids and dog! :)


I created my r/l LJ as a splinter from my original LJ because I wanted to make more public fandom posts--this was back in 2003, I believe--and my real life friends mocked me for my fandom interests. I felt it'd be easier to separate them.

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Oh, I just saw this. Apparently IJ has stopped letting me know about comments to my posts. *Please* friend me with your rl journal. I love pictures even more than memes which is really saying something as I will skip over porn in my desperate nosiness to find out more about the people on my flist. After all, if all I want is porn, I'll read an archive instead of a journal.

I don't really like in-jokes much either and always try to put them into context for others if I ever refer to them. I don't assume everyone reads everything I write, but I don't like feeling "left out" and try not to do it to others. The only posts I never comment on are music posts. I don't listen to music, so those are pretty much lost on me.

Hee! I don't have any rl friends who want to be on my flist. They have enough of me in person and apparently don't want to have to deal with me virtually as well. ;D

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Friended! I don't link directly from fandom to r/l journals (ie. don't mentino them) but you should be able to figure out quite easily who I am. :)

And don't worry about this: I only posted the comment last night, and this reply was here when I woke up this morning.

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, so if you look at the main page you'll get *heaps* of photos!

Pretty much all of my friends got livejournals a few years ago. Not all of them use them any more, but a good half the people I stay in contact with are on my r/l friends list. It's grand.

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