February 22, 2003
Introduce Yourself! Comments and Weblogging
It's been pointed out to me once or twice that I don't enable comments on my posts. Today, I read that this is the number one habit of highly annoying bloggers. Oh well, I'm innocent of the other nine.
My rationale is pretty simple: if someone wants to comment on a post I've made, I'd much rather they post the comment in their own blog and link it to me, rather than putting the comment in my blog. Why?
- If I post something interesting enough to pass comment on, a link gives the original post a wider audience.
- A comment will be read only by those people who view the article after the comment is posted.
- If I respond to a comment in the same forum, chances are the original commenter isn't going to read it, because they'll forget to check back.
Essentially, responses in the blogosphere promote conversation, and widen the field of discussion. Responses in comments tend to bury it. That said, it seems that I'm in the minority, and being annoying. I'm going to experimentally start enabling comments for a while, just to see if anyone actually wants to comment on the drivel I produce.
As my inaugural comment-enabled post, I'd like you, dear reader, to introduce yourself! Do you read my weblog, and I don't read yours? Post a comment and tell me where I can find you. Do you read my weblog and don't have one yourself? Post a comment just to say hi. I'm curious. I get about 3,000 hits a day even on days don't post anything at all, so there must be a few of you that I have no clue about.
(Oh, and to anyone reading this syndicated on livejournal, you'll have to click-through to the original post to get at the comments page here: I don't read the ones posted to livejournal)
Posted to blogging, nerd, personal at February 22, 2003 06:15 PMas: The Fishbowl: Introduce Yourself! Comments and Weblogging Essentially, responses in the blogosphere promote conversation, and widen the field of discussion. Responses in comments tend to bury it. That said, it
From: Bill de hÓra at February 23, 2003 07:11 AMCharles Miller: page links v comments: The Fishbowl: Introduce Yourself! Comments and Weblogging Essentially, responses in the blogosphere promote conversation, and widen the field of discussion. Responses in comments tend to bury it. That said, it
From: Bill de hÓra at February 23, 2003 07:55 AMI have your blog on my check-thrice-daily list.
Posted by: CTudball at February 22, 2003 10:24 PM (#link)Hi Charles, you've been on my blogroll since I started it 5 or 6 months ago.
Posted by: Lance at February 23, 2003 12:55 AM (#link)Good on you.
One problem that I've always had with the "put it on your own damn weblog and trackback me" solution is that it assumes that any comment on your post will be on-topic for their weblog: talking about the IE6 CSS bug from your previous entry was perfectly on-topic for me, so I was happy to do my commenting on my own nickel/dime/quarter (especially since it got me several nice solutions in comments), but if someone else happened by, who knew the perfect solution but had a firm policy of never talking about weblog technology in their weblog, then unless they were in the mood to email you they wouldn't have anywhere to comment.
Posted by: Phil Ringnalda at February 23, 2003 02:16 AM (#link)I've been reading your site for about as long as I've been reading weblogs, about six or seven months, and I can say I've even learned new words (like 'agglutinated') from your site.
I had initially agreed with your initial statement about enabling comments, partially because I have to write the code to enable comments on my weblog and I'm a lazy bastard. But you and Jeremy (and all the other blogs by their examples) have worn me down, so I'll probably get something simple cobbled up over the weekend.
Posted by: Chris Winters at February 23, 2003 03:22 AM (#link)I read you (syndicated through LJ). You already know who I am :)
At least on LJ, the comments are emailed, so it's a little better there.
(What the hell is a Blogroll, reading from the Highly Annoying Habits)
Posted by: Max at February 23, 2003 07:06 AM (#link)Commenting is like breathing: so good I'm going to make a habit out of both.
Posted by: Lonita at February 23, 2003 09:57 PM (#link)I read you! (But you knew that already.) Now the question is, should I go back to all those entries I wanted to comment on and try to remember what I wanted to say, or have we already re-hashed the questions and answers to death? :>
Oh.. and Lisp Rocks! :)
Posted by: TheOtherOne at February 24, 2003 10:30 AM (#link)Hello! Long time TrackBacker, first time commenter.
Re Phil's comment, I keep thinking I might make a special MT category just for TrackBacked remote comments. That could be part of doing for comments what RSS and aggregator software does for weblogs themselves.
Max: A blogroll is the weblog version of a friends list. And comments could be emailed--I think someone wrote a Movable Type thing to do that. LiveJournal-like community features across the distributed weblog system is something I'd really like to see.
Posted by: Mark Paschal at February 24, 2003 10:39 AM (#link)I first noticed your blog about 3-4 months ago, it's in my daily reading list. I'm now working on fixing my own blog to avoid all the 10 highly annoying habits :-)
Posted by: Sebastiano Pilla at February 24, 2003 11:59 PM (#link)Mark mentioned an MT mail-back tool. I think this is the one to which he refers --
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/000982.php
If you install this, people can click a checkbox when they leave a comment, and further comments on that entry will be emailed to them.
Posted by: Brian McGroarty at February 25, 2003 12:54 AM (#link)I found your blog from a link off of http://www.crazedmonkey.com/ and threw it into my installation of EffNews, so now I check it about once a day.
Posted by: Blake Winton at February 25, 2003 01:59 AM (#link)Comment only with trackback assumes that you actually have a weblog. What about someone who doesn't have a weblog, but would want to make a comment ? I think having comments helps people like me, stay in the conversation :)
Posted by: Pradeep at February 25, 2003 03:50 AM (#link)i'm a stalker.
just playin'...but i do read your journal often, and browse around on your links every time i'm bored at work... sometimes I get carried away, i feel i know way too much about you.
Posted by: James at February 25, 2003 11:07 AM (#link)Also guity of the trackback-not-comments sin, among a few others. Been enjoying your blog for about 5 months, I think.
Posted by: Eric Dobbs at February 25, 2003 01:59 PM (#link)I've been only reading your blog for the last couple of months but it has become a daily ritual.
Posted by: James Steinberg at February 26, 2003 08:44 AM (#link)I'm a (lazy?) reader guilty of not adding you to my blogroll. Going to fix it now ;-)
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