After yesterday’s failed attempt at advancing the story line on
Danger Bay, the actors of our little series have joined me on my porch this morning to see if we can get some sort of agreement to stay “in character” long enough to complete an episode.
“C’mon Jay,” Boomer began, “lighten up. We gotta cut loose and have some fun doing this once in a while.”
“Boomer’s right,” Fred added, “I didn’t agree to let my name and image get involved in this to not have a little fun.”
“So why didn’t we have a single comment on yesterday’s post?” I asked, just a little testily, “It is obvious to me that our Gentle Readers did not find it worthy of comment.”
“Jay,” Boomer rejoined, “they didn’t comment because we didn’t “pimp” our blog yesterday on AR!”
“You, of all people understand,” I replied with a tad more force than necessary, “That I don’t have the time to write posts for two blogs, and comment on other’s blogs to meet the ‘reciprocity’ requirements of AR!”
“What the hell is this ‘reciprocity’ thing?” the Codger asked, “I’ve been blogging a lot longer than you two, and I’ve never heard of such a thing.”
“Basically,” I answered, “it means that if you want me to comment on your posts, you must comment on mine.”
“So,” the Codger continued, “no matter how compelling the topic, or how well it’s written, unless you’ve been commenting, you’ll receive few, if any comments?”
“To a certain degree, yes,” I said, my mind racing, “at least with some people. We do get comments from several regular readers there who seem unaffected by reciprocity requirements.”
“Seems kinda like junior high school to me!” the Codger concluded. I knew his mind was made up on this matter. Me? I’m not so sure.
“Hey guys,” Fred piped up, “can we get back to Danger Bay?”
Yes—TOMORROW!
This is not a reciprocal comment!!! I have been a bad blog reader the last few weeks. Sorry to let you down yesterday. Heading over there now to see if it was noteworthy.
Bob: You are a regular reader! You never have needed a link-post to visit. I am in the process of subscribing to blogs (AR & outside) to make my visits easier for me.
Jay
I have you on my RSS reader – most of the time I read here before AR (actually, that’s been happening a lot more often now). The reciprocal thing does work, no doubt about it – there are so many blogs and so little time.
Ines: Reciprocation works, but should not be the only criteria for whose posts receive comments. The sad thing for me, on AR anyway, is that I’m physically incapable of hammering out mass quantities of comments so as to receive mass quantities of comments. Besides, if I spent my day commenting, when would I draw my graphics?
You are also on my RSS feed – both blogs.
Ines is right…too many blogs and not enough time. Ines I don’t know if I have you on my reader.
Bob: I’m finding the RSS feed a very useful tool to make “limited” reciprocity possible for me. One problem I’ve discovered is that even if I’m signed in to AR, I can’t access “Members Only” posts. Ah well.
Jay
Bob – I don’t have you on my feeder, but I’m going to check you out for sure! I can’t believe I didn’t know what RSS was a few months ago.
Bob writes an enjoyable, eclectic blog–very nice presentation.
Jay
Thanks guys!!! I look forward to your comments
Oh boy, will you get ‘em! Do they have to be kind comments?