\n — @adurdin is thinking aloud

Counterpoint to Words from Strybe: Right time, wrong place?

I would never have actually started blogging without Tumblr. I had tried several times to start a blog with Wordpress or something else, but I just spent too much time faffing about with settings and themes and never got around to writing much.

The lack of comment support is also a benefit in the end. Comments require moderation, which requires time and effort. And comments for me would mostly be ego-stroking anyway. But Tumblr makes it easy to comment on another post, just like this. Only I’m not writing my words on your page, where they might (hypothetically) be offensive, or boring, or just stupid clutter, but on my own space. Which keeps the best of both worlds.

The only lack from having no comments is the lack of community. But building a community of commenters is hard, and keeping it sane and civil is harder yet. Better a forum with a team of moderators, I think.