You know, there are times, when blogging on Blogger, that I miss some of the features of LiveJournal–the community-style bloggie place I began my addiction bloggin’ ramblin’. The main thing is the comment system. On LJ, when someone comments, you can reply directly to them, with your new comment appearing below theirs and a little off to the side. And then, the reply by the blog author is emailed to you. Pretty nice, if ya ask me. BUT, the downfall is that sometimes it ends up taking for. eh. vah, since, you know, if you reply to one person, you kinda feel like you should reply to ALL of them. Because they’ll all see it. And on LJ, the comments can sometimes come by the droves. (What are droves? I dunno… it just sounded good.)

I often wish that Blogger had the same option, because frankly, I don’t often go back to check and see if a blog author commented back to me with another comment. I forget. That’s probably bad, but it’s a fact. And so I don’t often write “response comments” to all of you, because I don’t know if you come back and check either.

When I started getting responses directly in my email box from people using WordPress or Typepad, I thought that perk alone would be a reason to switch hosts. Then Boomama told me that Blogger had the same feature. But, me being me, I still couldn’t figure it out.

THEN I read Sarah’s post about clicking the “show email” box. And it clicked. (Not only the “how”, but the main point that checking my email in Outlook Express was hindering me from this little feature.)

Now I know how to respond to your comments. :) :) :) :)

So those times I want to respond to you individually, like to some of the comments on the picture hanging post, I don’t have to just wish anymore. And that’s something to get all excited ’bout. :grin: