Anyway I don’t think “Making Of” documentaries hurt a film. What hurt this film was the initial fakery – if they wanted to run what you’re saying is a live-action cartoon, but had SAID SO, no problem. The “Making Of” just revealed the problem.

#2 Squanto McButterpants

There is only one me.

For five years I had no comments at all on my site, as I had no “blog” — just a repository of essays. Even when I did have a blog for the last 18 months, I would generally only post very infrequently — sometimes as little as once a month. Averaged out on a per-day basis, I probably actually get more comments now than I did back then, even if each individual post gets fewer comments, since I post MUCH more frequently now. And if you combine the comments here with the comments at PJM, I’m certainly getting far more comments now than ever.

Besides, I don’t blog for that reason (i.e. to build a big comment-community). If people have something to say about a topic, fine by me; and if they don’t, fine by me too. I don’t have ads here or anything like that, so I don’t go to any effort to jump on popular topics just to draw people in.

The “posts” here now are mostly just notifications that I’ve made a post elsewhere, so there’s much less of a reason to comment here, which I perfectly understand, and have no problem with. I will continue to make original posts here and here only on occasion — perhaps at the same infrequent rate as before — but in between those original posts will be dozens of “notification posts” which I wouldn’t expect to get a lot of comments. Especially on non-political topics like this one.