Postscript and Last Word

I just added a postscript to the thing (still getting emails and lots of hits). My last word on it directly. But I am sure I will write about some of the things I have gathered from it later.

Some thing on why people write, some thing on what it means to encourage other voices, what it means to be respectful even in the moment of anger, about what is living writing, some thing about youth and how some of us are forming ideas and knowledge as we write and by coming down on us too hard, means you are silencing my (and others) development as writers and thinkers. I know it’s not the intention, as HK bloggers like to say they want to find new talent and new voices. But it’s time to walk the talk.

Thanks for the kind words I have received. Many new friends.

Yan

Postscript

Look. I am so bored with all these people coming to read this thing, and I am sure a lot of people are commenting all over the place. Me personally, not smart point made got blown up, out of hand, unnecessarily. The response it’s gotten in the little pond of HK and China blog “community” is over blown to the nth degree.

I don’t really like closed in environments, which is why I don’t even consider myself a HK blog. If you want to categories me, that’s your business. All this talk about sharks and dogs, is silly considering I never once asked a HK blogger to put me anywhere and when I asked to be removed, I was told “no” by various people. Fine. I don’t really care to play in this landscape.

Behavior of everyone involved including my dig at Phil elsewhere is questionable. There are plenty of space on the web for everyone to exist cordially.

Don’t like what I say? Don’t come. There isn’t enough time of day to spend with someone you don’t like the sound of her voice. It’s stupid to come, complain, come again. But I can’t stop anyone.

However the back end is mine. Policies on comments will be written and enacted. If I am the first and maybe only “HK Blog” to stand by certain internet etiquette and expect it to be followed, that’s fine. But for the record, I don’t like how it is, and if that’s what was created before I came on the scene, doesn’t mean I have to accept it.

Yan