Wednesday, September 12, 2007

On abusive comments

Quite a few bloggers, whose blogs I visit, have written about abusive comments they receive, mostly anonymous. I received my first taste of it today - and unbelievably, on something as innocuous as an interpretation of a sher!!
I am more surprised than offended. It was not a heated argument, or even a debate. Why should someone get rude on a thing like poetry? After all, poetry is a subject matter of interpretation.

PS: And no, this reader was not anonymous.

7 comments:

Leziblogger said...

de aaur dil unko jo na de mujhko zubaan aaur, eh?

Sigma said...

@LeziB: Absolutely!!

Pijush said...

Don’t bother about anonymous users; I don’t care about them who are afraid of being identified. But if someone you know(? In blogosphere) put abusive comments, then its bit concerning.

Hay agar Dusman Dusman , Jamana Gamm nehi :-)

Sigma said...

APijush: I forgot to mention that this reader was not anonymous. It might be guts, but I am inclined to think that it was plain arrogance.
Koii gham nahiin :-) As I said, I am rather surprised.

Anonymous said...

When we receive lots of comments, one or two idiots just creep in from somewhere and it has happened quite a few times in my blogs also. I just safely delete them but if you get more often, it can be a real head-ache.

Anonymous said...

i just read the comment and surprisingly it wouldn't have sounded offensive if he just used a smiley after his sentences. I mean tht could be taken in a lighter vein as well.

and im sad....why dont i get such offensive and nasty comments am i not controversial enough :(

btw i wasn't sure what you meant when you said " you've moved AGAIN" the last time i moved was frm blogger to wordpress, i haven't made any moves from then. Let me know if my RSS is behaving badly.

Sigma said...

@Kalyan: I know it happens, but I thought I had never written a controversial enough topic :-)

@Maverick: You might be quite right at that. As they say, smile is a curve that tends to set a lot of things traight :-)
Hmmmm ... you are sad ? Maybe next time I'll leave you a nasty comment, so you dont feel out of place :-D
The "again" was for my realization. I had not been very regular with blogging for 2-3 months. Once, in between, I had seen that you had moved your blog, but forgotten all about it. Since I didnt get any new feeds from your (old) blog, I was wondering, and checked out our main page. And voila! I remembered you had moved :-) I still need to update my feed settings.