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Do people like comments on blogs? I can't find the links right now but I've found a couple of people talking about how they used to have comments on their blog
by llbeansandrice 6y ago
Do people like comments on blogs? I can't find the links right now but I've found a couple of people talking about how they used to have comments on their blog and decided to get rid of it since they would occasionally become a curation/moderation nightmare.
- input_sh 6y agoPersonally, no. They distract me from content and I often find myself jumping to comments directly if I know there are some. I'm from a region where they're pretty common on news sites, so I've created a Firefox add-on that hides the comments from about 40 local websites that I chose via Alexa ranks.
- INTPenis 6y agoDepends on the content but in good cases comments add crowd sourced fact checking to blogs. That's why I love reading HN comments on hot topic articles.
- llbeansandrice 6y agoI guess I go to different places for that. The blog itself doesn't feel like a discussion platform to me like HN, reddit, etc. Those platforms have systems, rules, moderators, etc. for dealing with more free-form discussions. I personally never read comments on blogs and I find having a "Contact Me" link at the bottom is better. On my blog I use a gmail account and a template for new articles so I get `[Contact Me](emailto:my.email+shorttitle@gmail.com)` so they're easy to categorize.
- INTPenis 6y agoSure but not all blogs are posted on HN. But yeah these days you could technically have a reddit thread on your user page for each of your blog posts. But how is that different than mastodon? At least you can self-host mastodon.