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Hey, I like some of these comebacks ;) > If nobody reads it, no one will think it's ridiculous. Ok, you got me here. Still, if you have a blog and there's ten

by HSO 16y ago

Hey, I like some of these comebacks ;) > If nobody reads it, no one will think it's ridiculous. Ok, you got me here. Still, if you have a blog and there's tens and tens of entries and nary a comment to be seen, doesn't that look sad somehow?

frossie 16y ago
if you have a blog and there's tens and tens of entries and nary a comment to be seen, doesn't that look sad somehow? Some people blog on locked-down (private) blogs. You don't have to make it public.
philwelch 16y ago
This is why I turn off comments. On publicly trafficked blogs threads are often an idiotic menace--among people who know me, Facebook suffices.
Lewisham 16y ago
I think part of it is to remove ego from the equation. The likelihood that anyone will be followed by name/blog alone is minuscule. However, if you treat writing as a personal exercise, and understand that "marketing" (for want of a better word) a post of yours you particularly like, it's definitely useful. Submit high signal posts to here/Reddit/Digg/communities you are part of and you think will enjoy it. I've had two blog posts hit the HN front page; both garnered about 4000 views. One of them also hit Reddit's /r/programming, pushing the view count to 20000. However, the Reddit commentary was essentially useless, whereas the HN commentary was awesome. In fact, the Reddit commentary was quite scathing, and that bruised my pride for a good couple of days afterwards. Sometimes obscurity is better. However, I don't regret writing. The writing is the most important bit. The reading... less so.
mkr-hn 16y ago
Someone somewhere is going to read it if it's posted. I think it's worth the maybe slim chance that someone will get something useful out of it. When I make a blog post, it gets about 80 hits during that week, then drops to about 10 hits a day. Over the theoretically endless life of the blog, that's a lot of chances to make a difference for someone.

by HSO 16y ago

frossie 16y ago

if you have a blog and there's tens and tens of entries and nary a comment to be seen, doesn't that look sad somehow? Some people blog on locked-down (private) blogs. You don't have to make it public.

philwelch 16y ago

This is why I turn off comments. On publicly trafficked blogs threads are often an idiotic menace--among people who know me, Facebook suffices.

Lewisham 16y ago

I think part of it is to remove ego from the equation. The likelihood that anyone will be followed by name/blog alone is minuscule. However, if you treat writing as a personal exercise, and understand that "marketing" (for want of a better word) a post of yours you particularly like, it's definitely useful. Submit high signal posts to here/Reddit/Digg/communities you are part of and you think will enjoy it. I've had two blog posts hit the HN front page; both garnered about 4000 views. One of them also hit Reddit's /r/programming, pushing the view count to 20000. However, the Reddit commentary was essentially useless, whereas the HN commentary was awesome. In fact, the Reddit commentary was quite scathing, and that bruised my pride for a good couple of days afterwards. Sometimes obscurity is better. However, I don't regret writing. The writing is the most important bit. The reading... less so.

mkr-hn 16y ago

Someone somewhere is going to read it if it's posted. I think it's worth the maybe slim chance that someone will get something useful out of it. When I make a blog post, it gets about 80 hits during that week, then drops to about 10 hits a day. Over the theoretically endless life of the blog, that's a lot of chances to make a difference for someone.