How do you decide to make a comment public?

DALOON!

I haven’t made one public either, but so far I’ve talked about some pretty personal stuff here on Fluther.

If it’s personal, or involves others, it gets checked. It’s public if it’s a compliment or just for silliness.

I try to remember to make compliments public, but I don’t always uncheck that box. I’m with you though, I live in mortal fear of some of my more personal stuff “going public”!

Public = goes here

Not public = PM

Usually I make the compliments to others public. I don’t think enough compliments are given just in general life, so I make sure to tell people when I appreciate them.

Either pay careful attention or don’t ever write anything that you wouldn’t want read by the collective, For really private, personal, scurrilous, intimate or gossipy remarks, exchange emails.

I do public comments when I’m not having an actual conversation, or the conversation isn’t of personal matters. I have a lot of comments, but most are private. I need more public comments people.

I don’t think I’ve ever made a public comment, either. If I’m going to bother sending a PM, it’s going to be P.

I rarely make them public, usually only if it is a link or something funny. Any personal info is automatically private. (But you know that, :P )

Compliments or useful bits of knowledge for all – public

Personal, private, or chiding, definitely private

So far, just about every comment I have ever made could certainly be public, but I don’t always remember to mark them so.

I agree with Dr_Bill, public goes here, private goes PM.

It’s kind of funny. Today I ran across 3 new activity responses by the same poster that had been deleted. Out of curiosity, I went to the profile and found he was new yesterday. I thought he might be from that new group so I commented basically Dude not cool. Although I always keep comments private, I decided to make this one public. When I posted the comment, I was sent to a page with something about Andrew making a mistake. The only way I could clear was to go out of Fluther and log back in.

I think that will be the last time I make a cooment public.

I rarely make a comment public.

@gallileogirl I went to that person’s page too and saw your comment. I was laughing because you said publicly exactly what I was thinking! turns out it was just spam.

I keep comments public if I feel I want others to read them when going on that person’s profile page. I’d say I send an equal amount of private versus public comments.

@galileogirl – I believe that would be because the person was deleted or banned before your comment was submitted. I’ve had this happen a few times too.

If it’s something factual, like You can buy this DVD at such-and-such a site, or I’m telling a joke or I’m complimenting the person, then it’s public. Anything that’s personal I leave private.