Writing Style and Comments
One of my sites gets a huge amount of traffic. But it gets few comments.
I’ve seen sites / blogs with much smaller traffic levels receive far more comments from the readers.
I think that I often seem to be writing ex cathedra and in a sense – that this makes me smile because I know my limitations – with intellectual power. A couple of people have told me that there doesn’t seem to be much they can say to add to what I’ve written. Without vanity I think I can say that maybe it is that what I write somehow strikes my audience as intimidating. Or at least very impersonal.
This isn’t a big issue for me. I could easily create a series of posts that would prompt lots of comments. That kind of emotional manipulation would be easy. I won’t do it because it seems almost a psychological crime. A rape of sympathy.
And it would also require that I dumb down what I write if only in terms of what is called “emotional intelligence.”
So I content myself with feeling grateful for the tough and good humored – and largely female – part of my audience that shares their thoughts and feelings without any worry that I’m a deep thinker or something equally silly.