For most people, a comment form is an essential part of what a blog is, and most of us enjoy the opportunity to leave feedback (even if we do so only rarely). But there are also plenty of possible reasons why comments are unnecessary, or undesirable.
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)
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)
EDIT: Found it. It was on Gizmodo: You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp' (http://gizmodo.com/5687692/you-write-bias-journalism-and-i-read-derp)-Deozaan (May 03, 2012, 11:36 AM)
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)
Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.??????????????????-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 05:45 PM)
Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.??????????????????-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 05:45 PM)
I'd guess we haven't been reading the same blogs ;D. Or forae for that matter :P.
BTW, comments are comments, whether or no forae are involved. But, in my experience, forum posts tend to stick more to the point than blog comments. And attenuation is common to a great number of blog posts' comments. That, after all, is one (1) of the reasons the blog comment/no comment question arises.-barney (May 04, 2012, 10:32 PM)