I recently started a comment wars over at Seattle Mom Blogs.  I don’t feel good about it.  I was overly heated and said some things that I knew at the time could be misconstrued.  It started taking a turn that had nothing to do with the post so much as how people choose to live their life, and Stephanie-you-are-so-dang-blasted-judgmental.  (At least it felt that way.)

So it got me thinking about how to deal with those kind of things better.  How can we be "friends" in the blogosphere when we don’t always feel the same way about things?  There is so much interpretation for tone in the internet, so really, how can we comment in a way to not be offensive?  (Unless of course, we want to be offensive, I guess…) I mean seriously, how can we have an open discussion without getting out the big guns, without getting all tousled.  How can we have these kind of conversations in bloggy world, when we might meet them in the real world?

So I wrote another post over there.   And the first commenter writes nothing positive and to me, makes it clear that she doesn’t want to be friends, not with me anyway.  I just know that another comment war is going to ensue, but really what I was looking for was true suggestions on how we can blog together in harmony.  So I was wondering if I could get some help over here.  Would you please post your thoughts on this either here or over there?  Or both?  I really am in need of some help in this area, and I really don’t want my post to go spiraling downward.