Teknikal Bunkum

So there I am, very pleased with myself, surfing around the site. I have worked out how to post, how to edit (that was a minor impossibility, let me tell you!!), even how to spell correctly (and with my typo-rate, that's another Herculean feat). Anyway - there I am, slightly smug, but not unattractively so, obviously!

I am used to being mildly concussed when trying to understand other people's lingo. Technical bods using gatekeeping language, the young shutting the previous generation out with recycled words, the fashionable and chic making their superiority clear with one sentence. I can cope with that. What's bothersome is when I am pretty sure I know what's going on and stumble conceitedly into the unknown.

So, I am looking at the edit options and I wonder what it is I am seeing. Moderate Comments. It's a tab, something to look at or do. I read it as moderate - 'not very one thing or the other, not at an extreme'. I imagine there is a little pool of comments, made about one's blog, which are pleasant and won't cause offence or heartbreak. How lovely. Google have put them all together for me to look at. An electronic ego stroke.

No. Not moderate - 'terribly Englishly bland'. ModerATE - 'put boundaries on comments and prevent nasties getting through'. Well - how would you ever find out what people think if you're not prepared to hear the bad and the good? I wonder, are we so protected in out little worlds that we cannot allow others to see things differently to us? Is that why we seem to have factions and ghettos within our societies (and don't think it's just one society, I've lived in several countries and people's people, basically).

So - I have no idea what buttons and wonders I have pressed. I have no idea what I have allowed and what I have blocked. Its all a bit grown up and importanty for me. But I do know I have allowed comments from anybody. And if you have something positive or negative to say - say it. If it's useful to me I shall be pleased. And if it's just mean spirited and unpleasant - I shall write about you or ignore you, depending on my mood!

Enjoy!