You do a lot of this right! I will try to follow your request for the kind of promotion and marketing support you prefer but I’m also going to follow your socials (including LinkedIn if you’re happy to accept) just to even up the ASQ (Average Sanity Quotient, which I’ve just made up!) of your followers!
A lifetime ago, I wrote a series of 2 blog posts on building a money-less society, and then walked away from it, it spawned 1000 comments and a little community of its own that I was completely not involved in over a 4 year period. I just checked in on it every few months to kill the trolliest-trolls.
I have had similar experiences, I stopped reading comments on my YouTube channel after a comment war blew up over if Buran was a copy of the US Shuttle.
However, I think I can lighten the mood - there's a wonderful British comedian called Dave Gorman, and he scrapes through the comments and petty arguments online, to assemble what he calls a "found poem".
Try this one, on the row that broke out after a French company was selected to make UK flags...
Honestly, I haven't laughed as hard as I did when reading this Linkedin thread for a while. It was like coming home to find 200 cats tearing each other to pieces in my apartment. They didn't even notice me there and I had no idea how they got there.
On most platforms I wouldn't even notice or care. Linkedin is normally not like this which made it all the funnier... and weirder. If I wonder who said some particularly inane thing I can look at their profile and realize that they have a pool cleaning business in Milwaukee. That may not explain to me how these fighting cats got in my apartment but it does somehow make it funnier :)
I was sent your way as one of the best sources of good, clear information about Moldova by both Moldovans and ex-pats during my first visit.
I’m a happy paid subscriber and point people your way.
Truly appreciate your writing and the others you bring to your space.
Thanks very much John!!
You do a lot of this right! I will try to follow your request for the kind of promotion and marketing support you prefer but I’m also going to follow your socials (including LinkedIn if you’re happy to accept) just to even up the ASQ (Average Sanity Quotient, which I’ve just made up!) of your followers!
Thanks much Alex! I think we all need an increase in the ASQ of our lives right now :)
A lifetime ago, I wrote a series of 2 blog posts on building a money-less society, and then walked away from it, it spawned 1000 comments and a little community of its own that I was completely not involved in over a 4 year period. I just checked in on it every few months to kill the trolliest-trolls.
Sometimes, the internet is weird.
"Sometimes, the internet is weird"
Well said :)
Hi David,
I have had similar experiences, I stopped reading comments on my YouTube channel after a comment war blew up over if Buran was a copy of the US Shuttle.
However, I think I can lighten the mood - there's a wonderful British comedian called Dave Gorman, and he scrapes through the comments and petty arguments online, to assemble what he calls a "found poem".
Try this one, on the row that broke out after a French company was selected to make UK flags...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctMsc1jo3_M
There are many more by him.
I love the idea of a "found poem" :)
Honestly, I haven't laughed as hard as I did when reading this Linkedin thread for a while. It was like coming home to find 200 cats tearing each other to pieces in my apartment. They didn't even notice me there and I had no idea how they got there.
On most platforms I wouldn't even notice or care. Linkedin is normally not like this which made it all the funnier... and weirder. If I wonder who said some particularly inane thing I can look at their profile and realize that they have a pool cleaning business in Milwaukee. That may not explain to me how these fighting cats got in my apartment but it does somehow make it funnier :)