ANALNESS VS. ENGAGEMENT

in #hive3 years ago (edited)

Is it more important to be anal or to engage?

That sounds like a dumb question I realise, but I'm actually dead serious.

Going all the way back to Steemit in 2016, I've always had this impulse to edit all my comments - to fix any typos (because they are going on the block chain and must be perfect) and to include an image with every comment.

Lots of people have that first anal obsession, but I think I am all alone with the second one. A real freak. But you knew that ...

Peakd has been playing up again lately, not posting images in comments and it brought home to me how much easier is to comment if I don't include an image.

And lately I've also been doing a bit of chat. That is not my usual thing because I'm an antisocial prick who prefers to lurk around posting weird pictures and trying to be enigmatic yet reclusive.

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"Strange man having existential crisis about posting comments with typos" - Digital art by FroT (2021)

Recently while having a long and deeply meaningful chat exchange with another freak, I had a breakthrough - his typing is just as shit as mine, but I could still tell what he was saying (at least I think I could).

While his blog posts are examples of word perfect perfection, here we were rapidly communicating in chat using misspelt words and it was all working perfectly.

"What if", a little voice in my head I'll call Piglet said, "What if you did comments the way you do chat, not giving a fuck, just being fast and uninhibited?"

There is a lack of engagement on Hive, and yet so many people treat comments as sort of mini blog posts, long and perfect, rather than as a means of exchanging ideas or just communicating.

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Here is the releasing the sphincter part of all this:

I know this is going to sound to like reinventing the wheel, but I'm going to start commenting more, using less words, and not bothering to edit mistakes even if they make me look retarded, And I'm not going to keep including images all the time.

My comments are not going to be anal monuments to comment perfection including references, links, and images anymore. They are going to be hastily scribbled thoughts about people's posts that I stick on there to say "Hey punk, I just read your post and it's pretty OK really, even if you are a bit of a clueless cunt"

I may even start writing comments using my fiddly little Samsung stylus pen thing. And then they will really be totally fucked up.

I occasionally have someone freak out on Hive because I'm a rude prick who uses offensive words. But too bad, that's me, warts and all, and I'm sick of censoring my comments so as not to offend snowflakes. Fuck that shit.

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The new fast and loose commenting me:

A fully released sphincter, no editing my comments - all fuck-ups left for the world to see.

Mostly no images, just short sharp comments. I'm not writing a fucking essay.

My uncensored inner self - if I feel like saying cunt, I'll say cunt. I'm a fucking Kiwi for fucks sake.

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My posts will still be fully anal with lots of pictures, and hopefully good grammar and spelling. But from now on my comments are going to be fast and furious - a bunch of fucked up next level retard, toss them out shiters.

Will the world end, and will I look like a total idiot? These are important questions, but I suspect that barely anyone will give a fuck actually.

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Now I have explained myself to appease my feelings of inadequacy, and I'll start today. I'm only going to shit in my own nest, but I feel like I'm about to start posting naked selfies.

Hitting post when there are glaring errors in my comments is going to be hard to start with. It's probably just like the very first time those men in drag (trannies) go outside, freaking out that some wanker with a camera is going to take photos of them and post them on social media saying "look at this tranny I saw in town today - what a freak!"

As if...

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I make my posts as short as I can ...saves the index finger ..

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i never realised excess moouse use could do that

I'm not taking any chances.. Need it to pick my nose...

Good thing for you I popped in again.. seems I forgot to up vote ..guess fast and loose has it's draw backs./. By the way your art works is a stoners dream.. great work ...

What do you mean stoner? I've been off that shit for nearly 10 hours!

Fuck you. that is anal. right up your bum cheeks cupcake. Banned for 30 days on fakebook and this place being the circle jirk it is and was, fucking off to do some real things

Ang give me an upvote, you know you liked it...prick

1 fucking cent, you know these leaches suck that up and you get fuck all

It's the thought that counts and I need your validation

I see what you did there, you turned a tree into a mushroom.

Are you always such a cunts, or just on my posts?

hmm I think at 54 years young, I am always a cubt, Sorry if I offended you cupcake, I did not know you were so delicate. My bad. I shall keep that in mind. Ian is a libtard, note to self.

I am a horse faced delicate bud that just needs positivity to flower and reach my full potential

Fuck me backwards. I did not know you were the cunt ruining New Zealand.

And I'm going to let go of trying to have the last word, fuckers like you never give me any respect

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Sorry Michael Obummer

Did you find a safe space? I was concerned you may not find one.

Truth is, everybody view things in different ways. While you like chatting casual and adding images along, another person might see it as something freaky. But who cares? Just do what you love and what works for you.

Any punk calls me freaky I'm going to bitch slap them

Hahaha😂😂😂...that's hilarious!

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Ha yeah, start of blockchain life for me was full of manicured comments fit for their own 'post-ship'........now it's a wilder garden and I don't go chasing, just stumbling about as I feel like. The freeflowDon'tGivashit approach is still rather elusive - I do now try and avoid second person pronouns, reducing (perhaps) the trigger points for taking stuff personally......I wanna mean what I say and say what I mean.......if I don't feel I can, I prefer to stay quiet, but that itself is a stopper....

All an ongoing experiment in self-expression I guess. Being reclusive and anti-social too, I have loved the b/chain for the space in which to explore voicing those silenced voices.

I used to note with astonishment your images with every comment (in the old days of screem :) ...nowadays I often add visual memery to my own comments. In general I dig your style of expression - longer form, rant, research etc and I've a lot of respect for the principled stances I've seen you take on various issues that many overlook/ignore in their own versions of don'tGiveAFuckness.

There you go, have not only written a longer, rather considered comment, but have used 2nd pers. pronouns too...not to mention included an image!

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Excuse me sir, there is some offensive graffiti in the top right corner. Please take it out before it brain washes an innocent human being.

Perhaps the menu was not large enough Monsieur...should people be denied cake if they can't afford bread? Objection noted; list of suitable garbage items duly amended :)
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Applying for my UBI, I am now a loyal dedicated communist who will accept a lifestyle suitable for a single called organism and evolve into a new age SJW, thank you for your messages fine media operators.

A commie and an anal comment Nazi...you have it all going on

Omg like totally, pre-op too!

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Which is more offensive, got shit or BBC?

Not naked selfies...
Oh ...the inhumanity..

Yeah getting banned on Hive is a lot harder than the violin players in the downvote academy make it out to be.

People have already done the noods, so @frot would have to do something freaky to get their attention these days.

Stuff just ain't as easy as bobs and vagine anymore.

getting banned on hive is entirely dependent on the oligarchs -you could be gone in seconds - it's an illusion ( I think).

After the steem/hive fork, and the takeover of accounts that did actually happen - in actual real life - there is no logical argument against it not happening again.

The elephant ain't saying much, but he's still in the room...

If you have your own recovery account they can't do that, just front end censor you but technically your posts will always be visible on the block explorer.

how are those blood stains going?

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But, I'd like to insert an Analness comment as well;

And it feels like "SHIT! SHIT! FUCK!"

now that is some very anal music...

Owee!
Frot said MY music is very anal, also Frot earned me fractions of cents now!

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I'm so glad you explained yourself. I've been splelink count with an O intentionall and now you ruined it, you count! And I'm not gonna fix that intentionally either, I know it's wrong, everything you just read is intentional.

Yeah right, you can't spell or type, and now you are going to self identify as a freedom typists to hide your shortcomings...

if I feel like saying cunt, I'll say cunt. I'm a fucking Kiwi for fucks sake.

Oh GOOD... I like both of those things... They taste great together...

Edit: Add a @frot ping, so the guy can find your comment in this longgggggg ass string of babbling...!!!

you're good, I used to be that way then didn't give a fark, if the point is made that's good enough for moi and plus weird Gonzo style writing is my bag so I get it also in everything else I have to make sure it's freaking perfect so this is my shite grammar and engagement place.

Speaking of anal, it does feel good to let go doesn't it?

😜

I find it harder to do than I imaginated

same for the first year or two or so then I realized it is YOUR trip, stopped worrying about things and went with it..... dots instead of periods and just stream of consciousness writing cause why the hell not?
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but what if you are thought to be retarded and rejected by polite socirty?

actual chit chat gets thrown to others to worry about where an Oxford Comma is appropriate or not. I can scribble way snobby ;) (meaning whatever I write is polished to perfection since that's just how it is in some sectors)
.................. polite society is shrinking and most Americans are lucky to even spell basic things without everything being stricly emojis and then just "muh brah, muh beyatch".
Have seen that fabulous flick "Idiocracy"? soooooo good :P

Yes Idiocracy is a documentary!

The Americanism the really grates for me is "LIKE" - it makes everyone who uses it sound retarded...

I go back and forth on being a perfectionist (saying anal sounds so gay) and just writing using my imperfect knowledge of English grammar. I use Grammarly to help me out because my native language rules make no sense to me😏

I'm trying to only be anal on posts, but to be rough as guts on comments.

I feel like I'm walking around with my dick out but it makes for more and faster comments

Oh yeah, I'm serious about this comment. Perhaps I will edit it in 2025 post quantum processing and next gen grammarly.

But it's already perfect you OCD freak...

Do you have a HR department, I need to see a manager about this @frot

yes! more making noise like a bird - everyone thinks they know what it means but probably not even the bird knows. retarded is refreshing.
that said, I have long given up hope to shake my clinging to comment perfection so I won't even try