Comments on: Social Media is Social – So Why Closed Comments?

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:06:51 +0000

Sure it’s not Safari? I run my Mac with FF and everything’s fine, but if I switch to Safari the navigation seems to jump one box for some reason.

Though a redesign is coming soon, so that may solve the issue

By: Movie Soundtracks On CD

Movie Soundtracks On CD — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:05:08 +0000

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By: Death of a Blogger | danny brown

Death of a Blogger | danny brown — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:19:42 +0000

[...] to say and that they could help him in his solitude. But again, the blogger said no – he wanted a closed space where only a private few could be his friends, his [...]

By: Lisabetta

Lisabetta — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:25:48 +0000

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By: Conversation Is Good | danny brown

Conversation Is Good | danny brown — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:28:11 +0000

[...] have to register at his blog to make a comment, and as I’ve mentioned previously, I’m not a big fan of this type of comment moderation. Judging by the comments on that particular post, neither are most [...]

By: Bloggista

Bloggista — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:05:45 +0000

Two other methods that can help to encourage comments are allowing DoFollow links (removing default nofollow attributes so that “link juice” is passed to the sites) and installing the KeywordLuv plugin, which significantly helps commenters with SEO because it allows them to choose the anchor text for links.

Overall, it is a good thing to encourage comments because the extra content provided by other people adds more keywords to your posts, which in turn brings in more traffic from the search engines without costing you any more time than it takes to write the original post.

By: B. Durant

B. Durant — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:17:41 +0000

I personally refuse to comment where I have to register. My thought is that if I took the time to read your article then you should listen to what I have to say about it. If I wanted to take time to register and login I'd find another forum to join B. Durant´s last blog post..No sherrif evictions in Chicago area

By: Rob McGuire

Rob McGuire — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:09:06 +0000

I think blogs took over the web world because they were in fact a social form of a website. Until blogs came around you could visit someone else’s website but there was very little interaction if any. By letting visitors engage in conversations with other visitors and the site owner over the topic on hand makes for a very successful form of web media.

That being said, a blog that wants to restrict that communication by forcing users to register for the ability to comment with others will only stifle it’s creativity and usefulness. I run several blogs myself and the only hindrance I place on my users is that there is a form of moderation in place and I only institute that to restrict the flow of spam commenting.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:41:53 +0000

Hi Mike,

Unfortunately, even with some of the best filters, Spam can still find a way of getting through (hence my preference to spam filter and moderation, to offer double protection).

I agree with you regarding it acting as a possible barrier to conversation/instant response to conversation, although I think this may have more to do with the blogger moderating as opposed to the method itself. Maybe if we can devise a system that is foolproof at sorting spam from quality, we can begin to leave the doors open as far as immediate comment authorization. We can but hope…

Thanks for reading and commenting, appreciate it.

By: Mike Montano

Mike Montano — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:41:31 +0000

I left my last comment without realizing you moderated your comments. I assumed you didn’t given the quality of the conversation here. You must do a good job of allowing good comments through quickly.

Having said that I still think moderation is a barrier to conversations, especially in the extreme cases when it takes days for some bloggers to approve my comments. When conversations can happen quickly and can be discovered the way we discover great posts I think we’ll see some even better discussions happening.