Comments on: Dealing with Blog Stress http://www.blogosis.com/posts/lifestyle/dealing-with-blog-stress-101/ A Scientific Blend of Everything & More Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:47:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Last Time I Checked, This Was Still My Blog… | Blogosis http://www.blogosis.com/posts/lifestyle/dealing-with-blog-stress-101/#comment-320 Last Time I Checked, This Was Still My Blog… | Blogosis Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:42:14 +0000 http://www.blogosis.com/2008/02/04/dealing-with-blog-stress/#comment-320 [...] How can a blogger deal with these kinds of random comments? My sadistic answer to that question would be… “DELETED” (Who else loves Strongbad?) Is that the best way to handle things though? Of course not. Address these problems on your blog. If someone is leaving short one line comments and links to all their posts, keep marking them as spam until they catch the drift. If they are persistent, write a blog post about how annoying they are (once again, a very sadistic but effective method). This is sure to get them fired up enough to write up an awesome comment or maybe even a back link as they argue you on their blog. Incentivizing your comments is an excellent way to get quality critique from your blogging peers as well. I am doing this on my blog now, and in fact, I would like to congratulate Michael from DollarStackin’ for winning a 125 x 125 ad spot on Blogosis for a month. Your comment really made a fueled debate on this post. [...] [...] How can a blogger deal with these kinds of random comments? My sadistic answer to that question would be… “DELETED” (Who else loves Strongbad?) Is that the best way to handle things though? Of course not. Address these problems on your blog. If someone is leaving short one line comments and links to all their posts, keep marking them as spam until they catch the drift. If they are persistent, write a blog post about how annoying they are (once again, a very sadistic but effective method). This is sure to get them fired up enough to write up an awesome comment or maybe even a back link as they argue you on their blog. Incentivizing your comments is an excellent way to get quality critique from your blogging peers as well. I am doing this on my blog now, and in fact, I would like to congratulate Michael from DollarStackin’ for winning a 125 x 125 ad spot on Blogosis for a month. Your comment really made a fueled debate on this post. [...]

]]> By: Justin Dupre http://www.blogosis.com/posts/lifestyle/dealing-with-blog-stress-101/#comment-282 Justin Dupre Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:23:30 +0000 http://www.blogosis.com/2008/02/04/dealing-with-blog-stress/#comment-282 I actually met with my ex later that night. I was more stressed by the rush of that question, as its rather personal, and being an American, we usually aren't used to those kinds of questions. Thais will straight up ask how much you weigh within 2 minutes of meeting. Any who, sure there are things that could have been handled better, but its all up to a person to decide what is best for them. I think a lot of my mood up until then wasn't at tip top shape. There are certain levels of stress that one can reach where it is just best to get away from the situation. I didn't run away from them, literally. I said I was full, taking my pizza home, waved them goodbye and walked out smoothly. Left that out for drama. Good argument though. I actually met with my ex later that night. I was more stressed by the rush of that question, as its rather personal, and being an American, we usually aren’t used to those kinds of questions. Thais will straight up ask how much you weigh within 2 minutes of meeting.

Any who, sure there are things that could have been handled better, but its all up to a person to decide what is best for them. I think a lot of my mood up until then wasn’t at tip top shape.

There are certain levels of stress that one can reach where it is just best to get away from the situation. I didn’t run away from them, literally. I said I was full, taking my pizza home, waved them goodbye and walked out smoothly. Left that out for drama.

Good argument though.

]]> By: Michael http://www.blogosis.com/posts/lifestyle/dealing-with-blog-stress-101/#comment-279 Michael Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:29:54 +0000 http://www.blogosis.com/2008/02/04/dealing-with-blog-stress/#comment-279 "That’s my first tip of this post. If you are in a stressful situation or place, do whatever the hell you can do to get out of it." I have to disagree here. In my eyes, stressful situations are what you make of them. In your example you bailed on a situation because it was uncomfortable, having been placed in similar situations I can tell you that leaving, while easy- may not have been your best option. The girls already made first contact. Calling your name, tapping you on the shoulder and sitting at your table are very 'forward' moves. They just wanted to talk, not bite your head off... and even if they wanted to bite your head off - is that so bad? I'm not going to tell you what you should have done in your specific situation, you probably already know. I will say though that in general, walking out on a stressful situation is not the best answer. Being the catalyst to the situation becoming less stress full is. That girl probably got all emo on her myspace because you didn't want to talk to her. And now we have more emo in the world... thanks to Justin. “That’s my first tip of this post. If you are in a stressful situation or place, do whatever the hell you can do to get out of it.”

I have to disagree here. In my eyes, stressful situations are what you make of them. In your example you bailed on a situation because it was uncomfortable, having been placed in similar situations I can tell you that leaving, while easy- may not have been your best option.

The girls already made first contact. Calling your name, tapping you on the shoulder and sitting at your table are very ‘forward’ moves. They just wanted to talk, not bite your head off… and even if they wanted to bite your head off - is that so bad?

I’m not going to tell you what you should have done in your specific situation, you probably already know. I will say though that in general, walking out on a stressful situation is not the best answer. Being the catalyst to the situation becoming less stress full is. That girl probably got all emo on her myspace because you didn’t want to talk to her. And now we have more emo in the world… thanks to Justin.

]]> By: Justin Dupre http://www.blogosis.com/posts/lifestyle/dealing-with-blog-stress-101/#comment-274 Justin Dupre Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:45:37 +0000 http://www.blogosis.com/2008/02/04/dealing-with-blog-stress/#comment-274 Thanks for the tip, Erz! You hear that? Dark Chocolate. Eat it. Good... for you. Yeah. I've got some more stress to deal with so I'm gonna go take a nap until I have my ridiculously easy XHTML programming course. Justin Thanks for the tip, Erz! You hear that? Dark Chocolate. Eat it. Good… for you. Yeah.

I’ve got some more stress to deal with so I’m gonna go take a nap until I have my ridiculously easy XHTML programming course.

Justin

]]> By: Erz http://www.blogosis.com/posts/lifestyle/dealing-with-blog-stress-101/#comment-273 Erz Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:02:47 +0000 http://www.blogosis.com/2008/02/04/dealing-with-blog-stress/#comment-273 Yeah, taking a break from blogging may be good when you're suffering from burn-out. But I don't recommend ice cream. Get some quality dark chocolate - it's even good for health as long as you don't crunch up 10 bars at a time! Yeah, taking a break from blogging may be good when you’re suffering from burn-out. But I don’t recommend ice cream. Get some quality dark chocolate - it’s even good for health as long as you don’t crunch up 10 bars at a time!

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