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I read your blog but I usually don’t leave comments because I can’t speak English that well, if it helps. The only comment I did was on that post with London Expo photos, but it was only a link…
Well, I like your blog XD

You are thinking way too much. You don’t need to worry about all that, really, and I don’t think you really need to change your blog so that it is getting more acceptance or whatever. Just post about what you want, after all it’s YOUR blog. If people don’t like you they can leave and if they like what they read they’ll stay.
I won’t say the net isn’t a popularity contest, cause it sadly is, but you don’t need to take part in it, do you?

If you get a lot of visitors and only a few people comment I think it’s just cause those people are too lazy to comment? XD or maybe they don’t see any point in commenting and they would rather just read.

I lurk a lot of certain forums and never post

Buuuut I can see what you mean =O

Hmm I think everyone is kind of self centered when it comes to blogging, it is about them after all. Though there ARE people who go a little over the top and come off as brattish *points to self at times ;_;*

This is blogging! /spartan voice

I think the best thing to do is just go ahead and be who you are, no matter what others might think, because you can’t please everyone. Anyways, it’s *your* blog, so you should do whatever makes you happy. And for the people that do comment/visit, it’s because they like you the way you are. I mean, who’d want visitors that only visit because they think you’re somebody else?? I personally love your blog. ^_____^

And I’m sorry for starting my comment with “ah” in your previous post. .___.;;

I think every blogger thinks about what people think of them. I do anyway. Nobody likes to be perceived as a bitch or something who’s totally self-centered when they’re not aiming to be like that. You don’t come across as arrogant to me at all and I’ve never thought of you like that. Don’t think too much about it because the point in keeping a blog is to express how you feel not what you want others to think you feel. I hope I’m making sense.

No, I don’t think that you’re arrogant! I like your blog. Gives me inspiration! And I think your thoughts are rather interesting. I like how you report on your life. I’d love to hear more about your fashion involvement though, it seems very interesting…and what is night life in london like!?

beard papa’s always smells so damn good, it’s evil. i think people don’t post comments most likely because they are lazy… or maybe they don’t have their own site? don’t worry too much about these! you’re not arrogant at all… and even if you are, you’re fashionably arrogant, yeah! *peace sign*

I understand what you mean, I’ve always felt that way. I often hold back posting in case the subject will be too boring or angsty. I barely comment because often I’m so scared I come off as an idiot or I’m saying the wrong thing. It took me ages to get the courage to comment on your blog you know ^_^ I always have to check what other people are saying too. And I’m one of those people who uses “ah” for lack of any other connecting words… sorry.

I think your blog is pretty interesting as it is. I’ve always enjoyed your entries : ) You don’t come off as arrogant at all.I like your blog as it is. You’e one of thoe people who can write about daily life (etc) without sounding stupid or boring… I kinda admire you for that.

I don’t bother sticking around a blog if I don’t like that person…but I tend to follow the same blogs like I would for offline friends. I used to overthink my blogs a lot and try to put up a front of “I wonder what my audience would like to know about?” but since moving here I just blog whatever I want to…interestingly, I have picked up a lot more visitors in a shorter amount of time. Personally I read your blog because we seem to have similar interests and you seem like a nice, interesting person.

your blog is still one of the select few (not to sound elitist but I get bored) that I continuously check for updates on & read it immediately!!! Though I will admit I’ll read it (at work on my rss reader) then comment when I get home.

Oh the theft~ (I’ve gotten tired of coming after ppl with pitchforks… it gets so tiresome, but I can understand fully how it feels.) The ones that still make me shake my head though are the ones who take more than a layout. The stick you on some crazy worship pedestal and take everything as if they want to steal your whole being. Those people are the ones that can still get to me. I bet you have some Hachi (!!) b/c your blog & personality are really unique. XD

I’d still read about you eating cream puffs. I know my blog has morphed into a freakin’ scrapbook over the years… but I think it’s how I want it now. I click through older posts gleefully looking at some random Rinka crap I’ve posted.

I see what you mean. When I blog, the one thing I need the most is people to leave comments. Sometimes I have this sense of insecurity because I’m afraid nobody will leave any comments. This sense of insecurity limits what kind of things I write about. From time to time, it seems like I’m just writing what I think people will like to read, not what I want them to know. *sigh* After blogging for so many years, I realized that if I’m able to make a few supportive online friends that are gonna be there for me when I need someone, then that is enough.

Hachi, I’ve known you for a quite a while and I know you are a very honest and straight-forward person. I like this quality of you and I don’t think you are arrogant at all. In the blogging community, there’s this inevitable “contest” of ‘who gets the most comments’. I don’t think it’s fair for us (readers) to read the blog of someone who’s faking everything just to be well-liked.

There are times when I do read your entries but don’t comment ^^;; Sometimes I just don’t know what to say (this is probably my third time trying to write a comment for this post DD:)

But don’t dwell too much on it.

Just keep blogging like you do now. I assure you there are maaaaany people (look above this comment ;D) and love it the way it is..

A lot of times, I don’t comment because my comment isn’t much different from what’s already there. If I don’t have anything new to say, then I don’t bother, usually.

well…i don’t ever commenting because i don’t have my own non-lj blog! maybe i don’t feel ‘worthy’ of you or something. (oAo;)

but i think commenting in return has a lot to do with other bloggers who are active. i know that whenever someone new would comment on my blog, i’d always visit them and usually return-comment or something. idk~

omg i want freaking cream puffs from beard papa *end random*
T_T blogging frustrates me as well… I mean, I like doing it, but I don’t feel like theres a point 1/2 the time. haha.
i like your blog though. ALL NIGHT PARTIES FTW

I don’t know about you but I think scandalous stories from parties are pretty good blog material After all, it’s the kind of kiss-and-tell we /don’t/ do in real life right?
On the other hand, I totally understand the whole blogging-without-comments “fear.” It leaves you wondering whether anyone’s reading at all, and if they are, WHY AREN’T THEY COMMENTING? Drives me mad sometimes, but what the hell. Just be glad you’re still getting comments.

It’s a good thing to think about how others think about you, but then that’s also why we leave out things when we blog/talk to people normally … don’t worry too much though. Worrying is a bad thing.
Anyways, too many interesting blog posts make a blog uninteresting.

oh man. i really love this blog.
hachi, honestly, the same people always comment, because we
(well i do) often check out your blog, to see what interesting things you have to talk about.
well. i guess i would be the same if i dint get commented. but you do. so no worries.
and i doubt people dont comment because they are scared…its cuz they are lazy.
sometimes i dont comment forums cuz im lazy.. *guitly*
i DONT post pictures of you looking up to the camera pouting…
that might make me stop coming. thats just ajsfah. ew.
i rather you keep posting your opinion and other thingsthat are pretty.
ill be waiting for your next post.

Well I’m a newcomer and this is my first comment here. I can totally relate, especially since I just moved to a new blog site this week where no one has commented. Its all good, I’m sure one day someone will come by or someone will read with commenting left behind. Perhaps there is no needs for comments because you were so elaborate in your post that there is no need for question or concern?. Or perhaps one person will come by and enjoy your newest post so much that they’ll comment on every post or read every post. Well, don’t get discourage, people are reading

New commentor right here! Perhaps you are thinking too much, but that’s what a blog is there for? Where else can you spill your most inner thoughts passively? It’s a comforting outlet that works.

Plus I think people who don’t comment are lazy anyways, or they just don’t know how to reply to the post. I know that I’m like that sometimes.

That’s funny, I recently made a similar observation of my own blogging as well. It’s hard to take something you enjoy and make it meaningful but then is it ever really meaningful, or just meaningful for the person who wrote it? I think I finally decided it’s better to explore oneself than to perform, at least as far as blogging goes.

I have no clue how I find things. I just click everywhere and I end up at interesting places on the web. haha.

I read but I don’t comment because I’m a generally shy person and I always regret posting something. I wonder if I’ll regret this one? haha.

Anyways I have a best friend who started to attempt to blog, and that changed her whole personality. It really bothered me. She changed the way she spoke to a Chris Crocker accent. It’s really irritating.

You’re fine though, some people just need to read about someone else’s life.:)