I’d like to thank all my readers for all the comments you’ve left on my posts lately. I appreciate them all.

Comments are tricky. If you get a nice one you keep it and appreciate it. If you get a bad one you want to delete it and ban the commenter. But is that censorship? It’s hard to say. I’ve deleted a few comments in the past and I’ve only had to ban one IP address from commenting in the future. Luckily, for the most part, I get very positive comments. So censoring my comments isn’t a big problem for me.

I’ve had a few questions about comments floating around in my head lately. When someone leaves a comment and asks a question in the comment, should I write them an e-mail answering the comment? And along the same lines, should I be e-mailing everyone and thanking them for the comments? I don’t know what the right etiquette is. I wonder if readers who don’t get an answer to their question or a thank you e-mail will get upset if I don’t send them an e-mail.

I worry about these things too much I think. But since I’ve been thinking about friendships lately, I wonder if I’m burning bridges with possible friends by not e-mailing them a thank you or the answer to a question they posted. I don’t want to make anyone upset or have them feel I don’t care, because I do care and I appreciate all the comments and questions.

Any comments on this subject would be greatly appreciated. I guess I need some guidance.