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Blog Comment Enhancements

24 Responses (Add) | Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 2:37pm

Blog comments are… just about dead. I’m not saying that they don’t happen, but inline community commentary isn’t as strong as it used to be. There are certainly breakaway posts that resonate with visitors – but even when bloggers beg (outright) for insight, it doesn’t come easily. If everybody’s talking, who is listening? Not to offend any reader, but while I hope to provide some amount of guidance with my scribblings, I do write largely for myself.

Someone from PostReach sent me an update this morning – which included a new (free) plugin for bloggers. I’m really not interested in it, but you might be. To me, it’s just another way of discovering how passive this audience already is. “Comments: 0 | Trackbacks: 0″ – does that look familiar?

This is Hans again. PostReach has changed directions. Our new service is called ClickComments. We noticed that 95% of blog readers never comment. The reasons range from not wanting to register to seeing that someone else already wrote what they wanted to write. Our system gets that 95% to comment with just one click to capture their reaction/emotion as the see new content. We think of it as a ‘gateway drug’ to traditional commenting. It is a great way to engage more of the audience. Engagement makes things sticky and people tend to tell their friends about what they participate in.

I just don’t think that any of these plugins (or social networking buttons, for that matter) are worth the space or effort.

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24 Comments

Charles Online Review Element at Charles Lau dot Com with Business Blogger - Author, Entrepreneur, Investor, Opportunist, Unemployed

November 24th, 2009
at 10:07pm

to engage in the activity, or just another creative idea to get that comment of yours! Just Another Idea To Increase Activity In the Blog Now, there is yet another idea of increasing those comments on your blog. I happened to see this post from Chris Pirillo talking about his uninterested blog plugin where they provide a way to get the readers involved in comments passively… They called it the “click comments”. A way where the readers just have to click their emotions about the blog, and the software will

Planet Code4Lib

November 24th, 2009
at 10:07pm

by writing more of my own code, and there were other features of WordPress–a terrific open-source project–that I really wanted: It took two years, but I’ve decided after initially disparaging comments (sentiments echoed recently by some well-known bloggers), I actually do think they are important to a blog and that my critics were right that the blog suffered without them. So starting today I have comments at the end of each post. (My old posts will remain free of comments since I have left them

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November 24th, 2009
at 10:07pm

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at 10:07pm

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at 10:07pm

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November 24th, 2009
at 10:07pm

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at 10:07pm

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at 10:07pm

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July 9th, 2007
at 4:50pm

[...] Chris. Then again, I always agree with Chris. Posted in Comments, Chris Pirillo | Trackback | del.icio.us | Top OfPage [...]

Creathir

July 9th, 2007
at 5:14pm

I am not sure what you are talking about… ;)

More and more blogs are suffering this fate…

This is the result of… RSS readers, at least in my opinion.

– Creathir

Brad Isaac

July 9th, 2007
at 6:22pm

Chris, I’m with you on how difficult it can be to get comments on a blog. But one thing I noticed, your comment link is above the post.

I had mine the same way up till about 2 weeks ago and simply moving it to the bottom seemed to increase comments almost the same day.

Having read your stuff for years, you probably have tested it already tho’ ;)

Matt Labbe

July 9th, 2007
at 6:38pm

I think a lot of the public commenting has moved to back channels like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Either that or other bloggers are so obsessed with trying to have a “unique voice” that they’re hesitant to show where they’re really ripping ideas from.

Oh, and ClickComments irritates me. Where is the “Boring”, “Doesn’t make sense”, “WTLW”, etc. All the feedback is obnoxiously positive.

Maybe it’s just that all the Paris Hilton press irritated everyone to the point that all A-Listers (celebs or bloggers) should be publicly ignored.

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July 9th, 2007
at 10:50pm

[...] Even as Chris Pirillo wrote this morning; as he related a new plugin for bloggers that attempts to ease that barrier that our readers put up, as much as we might like feedback of what we write about in many cases it seems that we are writing more for ourselves. [...]

Tom Raftery

July 10th, 2007
at 8:20am

I was going to leave some witty and insightful comment Chris but, meh, I couldn’t be bothered!

Marcin

July 17th, 2007
at 12:11pm

I have the same problem, many posts and just one comment…

P. from Weston MA

July 17th, 2007
at 1:12pm

I want things to go back to the days of the dialup BBSes, where message boards reflected more of a spirit of community…

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July 25th, 2007
at 7:53pm

[...] It took two years, but I’ve decided after initially disparaging comments (sentiments echoed recently by some well-known bloggers), I actually do think they are important to a blog and that my critics were right that the blog suffered without them. So starting today I have comments at the end of each post. (My old posts will remain free of comments since I have left them in their original format.) [...]

Charles Lau

August 3rd, 2007
at 10:17pm

Well, I think this plugin is suitable for certain group of people such as those blogs who only post interesting videos and need only interactivity such as “Great Find”.

It might not be suitable for blogs which require critics more than just a “thanks”. In fact, we can leave all those “thanks” comments to this plugin that you have introduced me as I have just tried it after you have introduced it. I found that it is more for finding out how many people find this article useful or useless without having to “spam” that comment box in the blog…

Oyun

September 7th, 2007
at 8:55am

I have the same problem, many posts and just one comment…

oyun

October 17th, 2007
at 12:46pm

I am not sure what you are talking about… ;)

More and more blogs are suffering this fate…

This is the result of… RSS readers, at least in my opinion.

- Creathir

kadinca

April 22nd, 2008
at 2:06am

Well, I think this plugin is suitable for certain group of people such as those blogs who only post interesting videos and need only interactivity such as “Great Find”.