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Depends 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.
by INTPenis 6y ago
Depends 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.