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Blog comments - On of off?
Deozaan:
I agree - some popular blogs have better content in their comments than they have in the original blog post. Lifehacker was a great example of this. They had some of the best commenters around (now not so much).
-jaden (May 03, 2012, 11:25 AM)
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Interesting. I recently saw an article on LifeHacker where the author said "F-You" to the commenters, making multiple ad-hominems to the readership at large, all while extolling the virtues of a comment-less system.
It may not have been LifeHacker, but it was definitely one of the Gawker sites.
EDIT: Found it. It was on Gizmodo: You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'
EDIT2: This is actually the article, written by the same person, extolling the virtues of no comments: Comments Are Bad Business for Online Media
rgdot:
I am not sure I can see many or any circumstances where comments are not a good idea. In a webmaster sense I would value comments higher than some analytics script telling me xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx spent 10-30s on your site. It is a proof of visitor engagement.
daddydave:
I agree - some popular blogs have better content in their comments than they have in the original blog post. Lifehacker was a great example of this. They had some of the best commenters around (now not so much).
-jaden (May 03, 2012, 11:25 AM)
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I agree, Lifehacker is actually one of the main ones I had in mind when I wrote what I wrote.
EDIT: Found it. It was on Gizmodo: You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'
-Deozaan (May 03, 2012, 11:36 AM)
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That was unbelievably painful to read.
I do agree that ""Bias" Is a Spectrum and We're All On It," though. I also agree that if you are the one who owns the web site, you have every right to moderate those people who seem to have been printed on a 3-D printer with human rear end as the material. Just try not to become one of them.
barney:
I'm kinda ambivalent on this one.
On the one (1) hand, blog comments can engender some pretty lively conversations, trolls aside :up:. On the other hand, would blog comments detract from the forum topics :down:?
Right now, I can search the forum topics, albeit in mine own clumsy fashion, and be reasonably certain I've covered whatever 'twas I sought. If comments are enabled, now I have to search the blog articles, as well, and try to merge those results with the forum results. Keeping the timeline accurate could be somewhat difficult - read nightmare - to accomplish :o.
I guess I'd say, "No," to blog comments unless some methodology exists to merge them into forum conversations.
(Granted, I'm thinking of a DC blog, not blogs in general, but from what I've seen - in my own blog, as well as others - some degree of fragmentation and focus attenuation tends to occur, with comment references to other blog posts that are not directly quoted. This dilution seems to happen to a lesser degree in forae. (Well-l-l, depending upon how much I've had to drink :P.))
TaoPhoenix:
I'm kinda ambivalent on this one.
On the one (1) hand, blog comments can engender some pretty lively conversations, trolls aside :up:. On the other hand, would blog comments detract from the forum topics :down:?
Right now, I can search the forum topics, albeit in mine own clumsy fashion, and be reasonably certain I've covered whatever 'twas I sought. If comments are enabled, now I have to search the blog articles, as well, and try to merge those results with the forum results. Keeping the timeline accurate could be somewhat difficult - read nightmare - to accomplish :o.
I guess I'd say, "No," to blog comments unless some methodology exists to merge them into forum conversations.
(Granted, I'm thinking of a DC blog, not blogs in general, but from what I've seen - in my own blog, as well as others - some degree of fragmentation and focus attenuation tends to occur, with comment references to other blog posts that are not directly quoted. This dilution seems to happen to a lesser degree in forae. (Well-l-l, depending upon how much I've had to drink :P.))
-barney (May 04, 2012, 05:30 PM)
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I'll suggest that the whole topic says "comments" and not "blog comments where the site also has a forum".
Either way, the comments on an article are ... hopefully ... related to that article. Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.
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