Comments on: Is a blog that doesn’t allow comments really a blog? http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133 trying not to get poked with the pointy end of instructional technology Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Welcome to T3h Ph33r! | T3h Ph33r Blog http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133&cpage=1#comment-37528 Welcome to T3h Ph33r! | T3h Ph33r Blog Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:03:16 +0000 http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133#comment-37528 [...] as Jeff Atwood stated in A Blog Without Comments Is Not a Blog: Personally, I’ve found that the comments can be the best, most informative part of a blog. Anyone who has visited Amazon and skipped directly to the user reviews will know exactly what [...] [...] as Jeff Atwood stated in A Blog Without Comments Is Not a Blog: Personally, I’ve found that the comments can be the best, most informative part of a blog. Anyone who has visited Amazon and skipped directly to the user reviews will know exactly what [...]

]]> By: Who Owns Your Comments? at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133&cpage=1#comment-15842 Who Owns Your Comments? at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:03:37 +0000 http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133#comment-15842 [...] a post answering the recurring “are blogs without comments blogs?” question. (Answer: they are, in my opinion). Let me reproduce it here too: Ownership of your own stuff, and federation by linking to other [...] [...] a post answering the recurring “are blogs without comments blogs?” question. (Answer: they are, in my opinion). Let me reproduce it here too: Ownership of your own stuff, and federation by linking to other [...]

]]> By: coComment blog » Blog Archive » Who Owns Your Comments? http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133&cpage=1#comment-5265 coComment blog » Blog Archive » Who Owns Your Comments? Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:53:15 +0000 http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133#comment-5265 [...] Earlier in his post, however, Paul cites something Jon Udell says in a post answering the recurring “are blogs without comments blogs?” question. (Answer: they are, in my opinion). Let me reproduce it here too: Ownership of your own stuff, and federation by linking to other people’s stuff, are the twin pillars of the blogosphere. [...] [...] Earlier in his post, however, Paul cites something Jon Udell says in a post answering the recurring “are blogs without comments blogs?” question. (Answer: they are, in my opinion). Let me reproduce it here too: Ownership of your own stuff, and federation by linking to other people’s stuff, are the twin pillars of the blogosphere. [...]

]]> By: Stephanie Booth http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133&cpage=1#comment-5250 Stephanie Booth Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:28:26 +0000 http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133#comment-5250 A blog which doesn't allow comments is still a blog. When I started blogging over six years ago, there were many many blogs already. Yes, I know it seems to many as if in the year 2000 you had to hunt around to find a blog. You didn't. They were "everywhere". Most have just closed down since then. Anyway, when I started blogging, comments did not exist. If you had something to say about what another blog had written, you'd write about it on your blog. I remember when comments appeared. It was very exciting. I know I was one of the first in my little "personal blogosphere" to <a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2000/10/30/comments-coming/" rel="nofollow">add comments to my blog</a>, hacking a script I had found and even <a href="http://old.climbtothestars.org/coding/comments" rel="nofollow">writing a short tutorial for it</a>. Comments are a great bloggy feature. As are trackbacks. But they aren't what makes a blog a blog. A blog which doesn’t allow comments is still a blog. When I started blogging over six years ago, there were many many blogs already. Yes, I know it seems to many as if in the year 2000 you had to hunt around to find a blog. You didn’t. They were “everywhere”. Most have just closed down since then.

Anyway, when I started blogging, comments did not exist. If you had something to say about what another blog had written, you’d write about it on your blog. I remember when comments appeared. It was very exciting. I know I was one of the first in my little “personal blogosphere” to add comments to my blog, hacking a script I had found and even writing a short tutorial for it.

Comments are a great bloggy feature. As are trackbacks. But they aren’t what makes a blog a blog.

]]> By: nathan http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133&cpage=1#comment-4896 nathan Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:22:48 +0000 http://jerryslezak.net/scissors/?p=133#comment-4896 My vote is for no, it's not a blog if you can't comment. And while some tools like Blogger may invite a ton of SPAM (or force you to make your readers type out the alphabet a thousand times a day), there are great tools like WordPress (as you know) that have easy to manage plugins that catch most of all the SPAM. Also, I'd just like to say that: 1. If you can't "deal" with having to reply to comments on your blog, then either don't reply and have your blog be a snoody celebrity, or get out of the blogging business and into the newspaper business. Oh yeah, those are about obsolete...must be for a reason? 2. I also find it hilarious that Google doesn't allow comments on their sites. Sure, there would be thousands upon thousands of comments, but they could have a cut off maybe if that was the issue. How can they run a blogging software and not allow comments...? My vote is for no, it’s not a blog if you can’t comment. And while some tools like Blogger may invite a ton of SPAM (or force you to make your readers type out the alphabet a thousand times a day), there are great tools like WordPress (as you know) that have easy to manage plugins that catch most of all the SPAM.

Also, I’d just like to say that:

1. If you can’t “deal” with having to reply to comments on your blog, then either don’t reply and have your blog be a snoody celebrity, or get out of the blogging business and into the newspaper business. Oh yeah, those are about obsolete…must be for a reason?

2. I also find it hilarious that Google doesn’t allow comments on their sites. Sure, there would be thousands upon thousands of comments, but they could have a cut off maybe if that was the issue. How can they run a blogging software and not allow comments…?

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