I like comments on my blog and commenting on blogs…
I feel that commenting on blogs is like developing an online relationship with another person. When you add a comment to a blog you enter into a cyber relationship with another person that you usually don’t know. If you’re lucky, someday you might have the good fortune to meet that person face-to-face.
Mark, from Box Canyon Blog has a great view on blog commenting…
<snip> …PARTICIPATE! “Conversation” is motivational fuel for the Box Canyon Blogger. Facebook “Likes” and “Shares” helps the BCB to grow, which brings new points of view, and are greatly appreciated!
Like all relationships, some cyber ones are easier to develop and maintain…
I’ll put a feeler our for people and comment on their blogs a few times initially. However, if after several attempts the energy is not reciprocated I take the blog off my radar and move on. I’ve found that sometimes blogging communities are tight and are platform specific (i.e. Blogger).
It’s not a good or bad thing – it’s just a thing…
In the lives we lead face-to-face, there are certainly some folks we “click with” and feel a connections. It’s a little sad in the world of blogging, because we know a person only by what they write. Sometimes, meeting a “real person” makes all the difference to how we actually view them.
They’re are some things I don’t like about blogging comments…
Like many of the folks in the “blog-o-sphere” I use a reader (Feedly) to keep us on blogs that I’m interested in. I go to the reader, see who’s posted an update, and if the “Spirit Moves Me” I’ll post a comment.
After that I’m done. I don’t go back to that particular post and mark the post “read” in Feedly. I won’t know if the administrator of that particular “commented on my comment.” In my self-hosted WordPress blog, I have a plug-in that sends an e-mail to the original commenter if I post a reply to their comment.
Gee, how else would you know?
I like blogging and read a lot of posts, but once I visit I’m virtually “done.” I don’t go back to post that I’ve already read since it takes a lot of time and effort and takes time away from reading current posting.
If I allowed myself, I would get sucked up into the blog commenting “vortex” and get little else done in a day. In the past, I would view and comment on Flickr photos but eventually I realized that there were other things in my life that I should be doing.
The reason all of this has recently “came to light” is that I received a very nice comment on my blog today. The commenter told me she had left a reply to my comment on her blog, but of course I didn’t know it was there.
I’m really interested in how folks in the blog-o-sphere handle this…
I know for me I spend lots of time reading blogs and posting comments, and can’t go back and revisit and read administrator replies unless I’m notified by e-mail. I don’t want to subscribe to all comments in each and every blog, because that would certainly open up a “can of worms” with a flooding of e-mails.
Tell me…
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