Comments on: My Comments on Blog Commenting

By: Recaptcha is a Better Comment System than Akismet

Recaptcha is a Better Comment System than Akismet — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:32 +0000

[...] one is for my readers who blog and all those who take the time to comment. Comments are the vehicle of the future for blog communication, networking, and yes: making money. This is [...]

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:30:31 +0000

I think I’ll leave ‘em. One day when I’m bored I’ll go check out her site. It could be useful . . . for example, my wife’s template doesn’t support the “Subscribe to Comments” plugin so her readers have no easy way to stay in the loop with comments. Maybe that service could help her out with that. Until I get over there though I have no clue :) Thanks Ajeet!

By: Ajeet Khurana

Ajeet Khurana — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:30:31 +0000

I guess you could go ahead and delete her comments then :)

The casual passer-by commenter is not a rare breed. I mean, I leave so many comments on blogs that I might never visit again (unlike this blog). I hope that they are not all going to delete the comments.

But, Kristina made a reference to a URL, that increases the chances that it is actually a duck :)

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:46:59 +0000

Well folks . . . it’s been over a day since I asked her to reply . . . assume its spam . . . don’t know about the company but if it walks like a duck . . .

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:25:11 +0000

Kristina, thanks for your comment. I try to avoid creating yet another free service username if I can. Using the RSS comments feed on every blog you want to follow does the same thing. Also, most blogs have feature that will email you when new comments are posted after your (like mine for example.) Your comment reads a bit like spam. Maybe you could reply to this comment to prove you are real ;) If you are, maybe I’ll go check out your service . . . and review it here! Thanks for the comment.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:20:35 +0000

Tracking your comments with coComment (www.cocomment.com) is also a great thing as it allows you to stay connected to the conversation and be notified as soon as someone else comments, so that you can respond.

Also, if you are a heavy commenter, it makes your life a lot easier. Last, you can find commenters and conversations on topics you are interested in via the aggregated comments already on the site. Check it out!

By: Ajeet

Ajeet — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:36:23 +0000

Cool. I can see that you posted it at: postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/08/26/comment-m...

Oddly, I kept visiting this post to see if you had an update. Only much later, I saw your bloghomepage and saw the new post. Hence the link here.

Good post. But, only a starting point. I am looking for the authoritative to-dos for managing blog comments. Incidentally, we are almost the same age. I was born in 1970. :)

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:56:25 +0000

I’ll go ahead and reply to this in a post. Thanks for the nice compliment by the way!!! Too bad i’m not all that into Real Esate. Did you ever consider starting a personal blog? Them is me favorites!!! Anyway . . . great comment, watch for the post on it in a few hours. Peace. -d

By: Ajeet

Ajeet — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:13:50 +0000

@Damien Riley: There is one related set of rules that I want you to come up with (because you clearly rule on that front). Give us your comments on managing comments on your blog. For one, I think that the blogger should participate in the conversation that (s)he initiates. You do a really good job of it. My greatest respect for a blogger is reserved for those who respond to comments on their blogs. Thanks for that.

By: The Old Vic

The Old Vic — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:15:46 +0000

Yes, I can see what you mean. Strange to say I’ve not had many of them, but I have switched on comment moderation nonetheless as I was getting some cheesy comments with links to questionable places.
But it seems to me that you are battling against human nature. If people decide making comments is a good thing (and let’s face it, beginners are told by most bloggers who’ve been doing it for a while that it IS a good thing for increasing links etc…) then they will go out and do it. If they are also told that they can’t just say “cool post John you’re sooo right” then they will find something else to say, which fits the parameters of an “interesting and useful comment” . I think the only way you are going to stop that sort of thing is when there is a system in place which does not reward links. If people get no personal benefit from leaving comments then a lot of them will just disappear (I suspect even the ‘useful’ ones). It seems to me also that there is already such a system - the ‘no follow’ system, but that bloggers don’t like it and they are by-passing it by removing the ‘no follow’ and changing it to ‘do follow’ so that everybody can get more backlinks . Perhaps there should be an easy system in place where the owner of the blog can decide which comments get a backlnk and which don’t, although then I suspect you would get people selling there backlinks for real money (which already happens I think). Or perhaps there should be a big notice at the top of the blog saying ‘comments on this blog will not increase your pagerank !’.
Sorry, this got a biit longer than I had intended ! Vic