Ok, I lied - being promoted from ‘Other Resources’ to ‘Anime Blogs’ in the Sea Slugs! blogroll was The Win and making Mentar spray coke all over his monitor was pretty sw33t too.

But that Nanoha TV vs DVD post has been really popular, visit stats-wise, for some mysterious reason.

Totali: Mwahaha, I look forward to your training episodes. I had a good idea of Author’s identity prior to Jason’s revelation, but the mystery of it was rather unique. I also post because I love to talk about anime, but it’s not as fun for me if no one talks back.

Orion: I feel the same way about comments! One thing I will concede, however, is that you usually get longer and better-constructed responses in emails and blog posts than you do in comments. A lot of times, comments end up just being a single sentence. I find it highly amusing that Pete’s interviews generated the comments with the longest average length out of all the interviews so far =D.

tj han: I know exactly what you mean, because he wouldn’t be reading your blogs if he didn’t like them (in spite of his criticisms). Tsundere commenters… don’t think I’m leaving this comment because I like you… I thought I was on a different blog.

TheBigN: When I first visited his site, I was a bit annoyed at the lack of comments, and the “comments off” text seemed to mock me. I was like Totali, up all night, sweating in bed wondering what to do. Ok maybe not… Anyway, after hearing his responses, it really made me think about the merits of not having comments. It’s not for me, but the way he addressed it made me come to appreciate his views on something I saw as very one-way.

DKellis: Having comments enabled makes it easier for the reader, and having comments off can make it easier for the administrator. Perhaps requiring communication through blogs, email, and IRC is a bit of an initial filter, to select responses from readers who feel strongly enough to contact the author privately.

Martin: It can be quite a bit of work filtering comments, and event hough most spam never makes it on our page, I am constantly trolling through our spam log to rescue false positives (unfortunately it happens more often than I would like). I never really thought of commenting as a double-edged sword, but I now have a better understanding of why someone could reasonably wish to have comments disabled. Pete definitely has a bit of a niche with his blogosphere commentary, as you usually don’t see quoting and responding to posts about non-controversial topics.

Hinano: There can only be one emperor.

I’ll be honest, the only time I ever wanted to comment on aninote is when he bitched about some post that either me or JP wrote - I can’t honestly remember.

He has filled something of a niche though - commentary on the blogosphere’s community is interesting in itself (especially when you’re too lazy to join IRC like I am), but sadly under-represented so I’d like to see Author keeping up the good work.

And posting on my own blog with a single “Author wrote this, and I have no idea what he’s talking about” is a mite less substantial than I’d like, since sometimes I don’t have anything else I want to add other than “please elaborate”.

Therefore, I figure that if Author doesn’t want my comments, he’s not going to get my comments.

Having said that, I do appreciate Ani-Nouto for being one of the more, well, literate blogs out there, and it’s one of the blogs I visit every day. I seldom (come to think of it, almost never) agree with him, but that’s only due to matters of individual taste.