Popularity: A Detriment for the Runner-Ups and Poop-Ons

I visit several popular blogs where the author receives a large amount of comments. When I comment on those popular blogs, I don’t expect a comment back from the blog owner. When you reach a certain amount of comments per day, I find it unreasonable to reply back to everyone. We authors (as much as it may appear we don’t have a life) do have a life outside our blogs, and to comment to everyone that has dropped by with feedback is a major waste of time.

However, what I don’t understand is when you ask the blog owner a specific question, I certainly expect an answer back. Sure, the author’s busy doing other things, but when he/she is commenting to others and has time to post yet two more entries after that and continuing to reply to other bloggers, I find it extremely ill-mannered. The type of question that I asked required about a 5 word answer. Doesn’t take much time.

Now, for example, Little Green Footballs and other bloggers who receive anywhere between 50 to 500 comments per entry, I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t check their comments at all. If that were the case, and I had a question for them, I would email them instead. And hopefully, I’d get a reply within 30 days.

I think what the problem is, though, is that popular bloggers only reply to their friends. If you are new to their blog, they find their time too important to waste on you. That’s very rude, and I won’t visit those blogs again. Some people just never learn manners.

I promise myself that I will never get like this. If I do, please bitch-slap me.