I’ve always loved reading. In school, I avidly consumed every book my teachers handed me and I loved them all – right up until the point the assignment questions started rolling in.
Way to ruin a good read.
The funny thing was, I’m pretty sure my teacher’s weren’t that interested in the assignments, either. If they’d really wanted to know my opinion on 1930’s race politics or morality in the face of survival it would have been different, as in better, as in not incredibly, incredibly irritating. But they had to do it as part of their job, and we had to reply as part of ours.
For some reason, various blogging gurus who have completely forgotten what it’s like to have a whole book ruined by a disinterested teacher forcing himself to hand out assignment questions have decided it would be great to advise everyone to ruin their blog posts in exactly the same way.
PLEASE DO NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG POSTS IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. You see, it’s not really my job to reply to irritating questions which ruin my reading these days.
If a question comes up, then by all means, shoot. But forcing yourself to end every single post with a little piece of tangentially-related homework and politely pretending (or not bothering to pretend) to care about the responses is not only patronising, it gives me flashbacks to when I was fourteen (not a highlight of my life).
So if you don’t have a burning question, just let it go. I’m more likely to comment and not-hate your blog that way.
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