I happened to drop by Cash Quests, a site that has been mentioned by money gurus like John Chow. To my surprise, however, Cash Quests has decided to turn off comments on their blog. At first they did this because of an experiment. You can read all about that in their main post. Now however, it's an until further notice thing. While the experiment looked interesting, I must disagree with their bold move to turn off the comments until further notice.
Comments are the heart of the blog. They allow readers to communicate with the writer and vice versa. Without them, we writers would have no idea what our readers truly think. Plus we gain some great friends from comments. I enjoy comments from my readers. Good or bad. They help me to improve my blog and give me new ideas for my posts. They offer advice and lend a hand. They give out hugs when I need them the most and put a smile across my face. Without comments, my blog would not be the blog it is today. So to my readers who comment, Please continue to do so!!!!! Comments are a great thing!
I agree, if I blog and no one comments, did I blog?
ReplyDeleteComments are the heart of any blog.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely I agree with you. It is frustrating to me that so many don't comment, it makes me think my content is poor or not worth reading. Sometimes the lack of comment has made me think of quitting the whole thing
ReplyDeleteI think that not too many people like to leave comments. I like them a lot but if I write something and nobody comments anything, well, I don't lose my sleep :)
ReplyDeleteOf course, it is much better to receive feed back. I appreciate it a lot when it happens. Not very regularly I must admit but then I keep in mind I blog just because ;)
Of course as an avid commentator and blogger I agree with you. It seems a bit snide for any blog author to permanently disable comments. If I want to be ignore, there are better places to go. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat fun is a blog without comments? The comments on my blog were broken for a while and it drive me nutty! I love having feedback on my posts and love commenting on others. It would be frustrating to me if I had something to say and couldn't because comments were turned off.. and I probably wouldn't frequent a blog like that. So are they shooting themselves in the foot with this?
ReplyDeleteI used to read a blog written by Steve Pavlina but them hr turned off comments, he also never link to other web site basically he isnt blogging anymore, he is writing an online book.
ReplyDeleteYes, comments are important. I hate it when I try to leave a comment on a post I found interesting and I can't!
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