If yes, then you could do this: Write a response, and save it. Wait one week. Read the response again, whether you still agree with what it says. If you do, publish it as an article on your blog. (If during the week you wrote more responses on the same topic, join them. If the response is too short for an article, just keep it in the database in case you will later write more reponses on the same topic.)
By doing this you could transform the response-writing impulse into something valuable, assuming that you care about blogging e.g. for reasons of status (articles are higher status than comments) or Adsense money. Waiting one week and posting on a different place than what made you angry could reduce the flamewar risk.
I do have a blog, but it won’t work for this purpose (it’s got way more readers than any comment flamewar I’m likely to participate in, so I’d probably create a larger flamewar in my own comments). Nice idea though.
I don’t mind you using Google Translate, nor do I mind comments in English, if you ever feel like commenting. Unfortunately, there’s no better alternative (and I’m aware of how much Google Translate can suck sometimes). I’ve tried in the past to blog in two languages and self-translate, and it just wouldn’t work, hideously time-consuming and anti-fun.
Do you have a blog?
If yes, then you could do this: Write a response, and save it. Wait one week. Read the response again, whether you still agree with what it says. If you do, publish it as an article on your blog. (If during the week you wrote more responses on the same topic, join them. If the response is too short for an article, just keep it in the database in case you will later write more reponses on the same topic.)
By doing this you could transform the response-writing impulse into something valuable, assuming that you care about blogging e.g. for reasons of status (articles are higher status than comments) or Adsense money. Waiting one week and posting on a different place than what made you angry could reduce the flamewar risk.
I do have a blog, but it won’t work for this purpose (it’s got way more readers than any comment flamewar I’m likely to participate in, so I’d probably create a larger flamewar in my own comments). Nice idea though.
Am I committing some sort of sin by reading your blog via Google Translate? Is there an alternative that doesn’t involve my learning Russian?
I don’t mind you using Google Translate, nor do I mind comments in English, if you ever feel like commenting. Unfortunately, there’s no better alternative (and I’m aware of how much Google Translate can suck sometimes). I’ve tried in the past to blog in two languages and self-translate, and it just wouldn’t work, hideously time-consuming and anti-fun.