they're immune to your consultations

[freckles_and_doubt]

So, you lot are odd. More specifically, I lament my complete and utter inability to map your responses, i.e. to predict which of my posts will garner millyuns of comments, and which will languish with no more adornment than a grammar nit-pick and an unrelated link. On the whole I'm in this blogging lark for the dialogue and wish to provoke same, tending to feel confused and unfulfilled if I don't succeed. This is provoking introspection. (Possibly exacerbated by an uneasy night after an emergency visit to my dad, who seems to have picked up a 'flu bug which is not interacting at all well with his motor neurone symptoms).

I am interested to notice that, while posts tagged, for example, "narcissism" on the whole attract a reasonable number of comments despite my expectation exactly to the contrary, posts in which I offer a detailed review of a film or book generally don't pick up on the comment action. In fact, most of them are not commented on at all. I am fascinated by this, and somewhat at a loss to account for it. Inevitably, pollage results.

[Poll #1442936]
Or, as always, leave some other pithy rejoinder in the comments. (See what I did there? self-conscious self-fulfilling recursive reference ftw!)

Comments

[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

I voted "boring", "pseudo-academic" and "cussedness", all from a surfeit of cussedness. :D

On the whole I don't read reviews of films or books. I just don't. I'll read the book/watch the film, but I'm generally not that interested in what other people think of it.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Sheer bloody-mindedness is a virtue!

I find your lack of interest in reviews disturbing. One of the great joys of the internet for me is finding intelligent, snarky reviewers, to the extent that I honestly hadn't considered lack of interest in reviews as a class in my hypotheses about non-commenting. But I shall endeavour not to judge your strange, alien ways ;>.