So I think I’ve almost fallen off the front page of Digg.com by now… whoa. Someone “dugg” an old (bossy, idealistic, didactic, but sincere… sigh) post of mine about how to deal with website “trolls”, and in the space of 24 hours, it went from a small item in Tech News to the “popular” section and BAM!

This is early in the process:

Current Digg count is now well over 600….

If you were trying to access my site earlier, the traffic crashed me for about 3 hours (give or take a few moments of up-ness.)

What’s funny is that the post was more than a year old, and hardly anyone noticed. Still.

A few things:

While I still think people need to be kinder to one another online, I have definitely learned that you can’t make anyone change unless changing was something they’d considered anyway. You can only be the person you want to be and leave it at that. Build the relationships that matter to you, and let the rest lie.

It’s very strange to have people decide about who you are and what your writing is worth based on a single old post on your blog. Seriously.

Irony is alive and well on the Internet, and you have to laugh or you’ll find it a little depressing.

Originality is slightly less alive and well.

I’m way less prone to sweat the stupid crap that goes on, and just walk away from it — or delete it. Either way.

I still really, really love people.

And that’s that.