Blog Comments Not All They’re Cracked Up To Be

October 2, 2007 – 8:05 am

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It’s nice to get comments in your blog, but there are some downsides to the practice. Most notably is the fact that incessant spammers constantly try and bombard blogs with messages. No matter how many years go by, this practice always remains popular. I doubt it will ever cease to exist, because apparently they’ve found a way to make money from the practice.

But even when humans add comments, it doesn’t always increase the value of your blog by much. Many people who leave comments are just “doing it by hand”, and although technically not spam, they make quick low-content comments in order to put links back to their own websites.

Conversation does happen sometimes. There are times when comments are very useful, and these are the moments that blogger hang on to. The few gems are worth sorting through the chaff in order to glean knowledge from the nuggets of wisdom. The only problem is, they occur about as often as meteor showers. Ah, well.

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