The comment drop

by Jason Preston on November 29, 2006

If you think any of this gibberish looks interesting, you should poke around and subscribe to my RSS feed to keep up with new content.

Do you do this? I think everyone probably does this.

I occasionally go through my feedreader (or livejournal friends page) and make sure to leave a comment on some person’s blog or another that is designed to give the impression that I’m a regular reader.

I’m not really sure why I do this. I think it’s because I like the idea of reading everything everyone in my reader writes, but I know that’s impossible.

This is different than the link-comment. If I get linked, I’ll usually drop by and leave a comment if it’s at all appropriate. A lot of people do that. It’s cool - it’s what makes this a conversation. But this is unprovoked comment dropping.

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