I don’t see any reason why people are being so caustic in their remarks! Is it genuine dislike (which they should keep to themselves at least out of courtesy) or plain bad mood finding a vent here!! We all know how blogging works but there can be a lot of people taking the plunge now and would want to know the basics neatly put then having to comb the internet for bits of advice. I am one of them.

For one, I have just started blogging and believe me, even though I know a blog has to be regularly posted on, it’s so difficult to think of interesting things to write about all the time. Let’s appreciate someone’s consistent effort over five years, which is a really long time! To be honest, I personally am not a big fan of Great Bong, my husband and his sis regularly read him. I feel the style of writing is so high sounding and moreover I thought I could never write like that. But at the end of the day it is his style of writing and he has his loyal set of readers so who am I to complain.

At the end of it, I think a blog is written for one’s personal satisfaction. If people choose to read it and like it, that’s a bonus. So anybody who doesn’t like something can choose to not read a particular blog. But it would be very unfair to upright criticise someone and expect a change happening cz ‘you’ think so!! This is the right and ethical way to look at it. Not like you enjoy it while it’s good and start breaking chairs when ‘you’ feel the show isn’t to your liking.

PS: If Arnab replies to every comment to keep his readers happy, he’ll only be doing that in life!!

Nowhere in these two articles is there any chest-thumping proclaiming the greatness of this blog itself (except in the name of course), and even then some people seem to get so hot under their respective collars! And its particularly telling, that they picked this blog to vent out their complaints about the quality of the posts going down etc etc.

And yes, the most telling fact is that GB didnt bother replying to these comments.

I think the comment thread has been unnecessarily harsh, because I am sure I was not the only one who asked for this advice, and also this was absolutely not unsolicited but much requested. If I were to get batting tips I and I had a chance to ask a Tendulkar directly for them and he was kind enough to offer then I see nothing wrong there. I think by stretching the comparison a bit it’s obvious if any new blogger or someone looking to make it bigger in the blogosphere wants tips s/he can’t get better ones than from you.

So, thanks once again:)

Now (like how Rani Mukharjee did Bunty Aur Babli after Black) how about a post on the following?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJBqrYJ8tY0

The best melodramatic moment in the history of Bollywood, wouldn’t you say?

Hatikvah, are you trying to polish your similes in the cloak of a debate?

Don’t know about the best, but GB is definitely damn good.

Yes I think GB has the best English writing style in the blogosphere. Do you have any problem with that? If you are sad that I have nothing to say about you, I can give you a toffee if that helps.

I think the main problem here is that GB is not reacting to all this crap and that what makes you all so angry (i.e. he is not commenting). What you guys forget is that over here you have the privilege of saying nasty things about GB and have it remain on his blogspace whereas for other blogs you would not have comments enabled or bad comments moderated. If this openness to criticism does not show his supreme tolerance besides also the fact that he chooses not to react to it, I wonder what does.

Normally I myself as an admirer of this blog would not have reacted to trolls but when you say “author of this blog reacts to criticism with the same sportsmanship as Nero would have reacted to his subjects slighting him” even after the fact that the man did not say ONE WORD in his defense I was forced to say something.