Medium Commenters

Even on the friendliest of sites, people behave like infants. I’ve done it myself. Three years ago I found out that one of my favorite Medium writers had blocked me. Utterly clueless what I did, for I admired her a great deal. Whether or not it was called for isn’t my call, it was hers. As with each of us, we get to have…

Look. Will you please stop whining about only one clap and how insulted you are? This is a quick rant (thank you). When I want to be hugely entertained by petty things, I scan stories from Medium writers who bitch and moan about the one- clap wonders. This is now a thing, that people are mad at only one clap? …

This makes leaving so damned easy: mean people who are mean because they mean to be mean. Did her mother just drop her on her head too many times? Look, I’ve dropped myself on my own head twenty-two times; that was my fault. I know when I’m being a jerk. I know it, I own it, I make fun of it, and frankly, when necessary, I bloody…

A few minutes before I head out for a long Hump Day on the Oregon Coast, a lesson in Medium manners I wake up at 3 am. Yeah, I know. Not an alarm clock, only the one in my punkin head. It’s annoying. However, that started six years ago, it happens to some of us as we age. That 3 am wakeup time gives me the quiet and solitude I need…

And now for something really new, folks. A commenter gets ugly over being called out. What a breath of fresh air. In that increasingly time-honored way that people love to shoot the messenger when they don’t like having a mirror held up to them, yet another Medium commenter yesterday got the axe from me for being ridiculous. …