Craziness...

Lately I've been reading quite a bit about anonymous commenters leaving nasty notes behind on peoples blogs. I've been hearing about people harassing through e-mails. I'm going to tell you that I think it's nuts and I know it's hurtful.
A blog is a journal and if you are blessed enough to be let into someone's life...even on the small level that a blog allows, you should be supportive and allow yourself to be enriched by it. If you think someone's blog is boring...don't read it. If you think their children never do anything fun...then stop dropping by.
Unless a fellow blogger makes a commitment to you, they do not owe you anything. It is not their job or their goal to entertain you.
I have seen too many wonderful blogs that I was benefiting from having to go private or shut down altogether because someone decided that it was their right to become hurtful and go into attack mode. It isn't your right. A blog is a reflection of someone else's life...not yours. It is their forum to speak their own thoughts and share what pieces of their lives they choose.
No one should feel outside pressure to post or curb their thoughts or ideas to please someone else out here.
I have been very fortunate and haven't had to deal with this, but I will tell you that if someone decided to start leaving me snarky comments...I would hope they would have enough spine to at least leave their name. Anonymous is a pretty cowardly way to launch an attack.

These issues are why I have the Blogging Without Obligation graphic on my sidebar.