Comments on: Commenting: Blog Etiquette

By: JXL51

JXL51 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:34:25 +0000

The reason for my question is that I need to take shots of our classic cars that are currently in a garage. ,

By: inWorship

inWorship — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:13:33 +0000

Haha!!

By: alex

alex — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:53:30 +0000

something fishy going on here…

By: inWorship

inWorship — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:50:16 +0000

Dang Mandy, I can’t take you anywhere

Alex, I swear I didn’t pay her.

By: mandy

mandy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:34:30 +0000

inWorship knows what he’s talking about!

By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:22:02 +0000

Hey man,
So does that mean that since you don’t comment@ FredMcKinnon.Com, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t read? (grin) …

As for coming back – I LOVE the “notify comments via email” subscription options, and wish more had it.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:57:22 +0000

Amanda – I think it’s so cool that we knew each other and then found out that we both blogged! And everyone makes fun of us, but hey so what? When is the whole gang gonna get together and show off some GH3 skillz?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:51:44 +0000

I love to comment! I used to comment on nearly every blog post I read but lately I’ve been slacking. Now I only comment when I have free time and am reading. I looooove when people post comments on my blog and most of the time I do comment back, I found it does increase traffic but also it’s just polite. I used to always have follow up comments emailed to me but then my email was just way over loaded so I usually just check back it I wanted to know what others thought too.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:54:36 +0000

Will – it is nice to have a blog superstar show up on your comments, it does feed the ego, I’m not gonna lie.

One thing I struggle with a bit is authenticity, and are these blogs really for sharing and learning or is it a popularity contest?

By: Will Young

Will Young — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:21:15 +0000

I’d be lying if I said that it wasn’t cool to have people comment on my blog. I’ve had some rather “famous” and even unique people run across it and leave a comment.

However, I blog because it’s a nice way to vent, and it allows me to follow my passion without making a career (and thus relinquishing my passion) out of it. So whether anyone comments or not doesn’t really matter to me.

I used to be all into the who is visiting, whose commenting/e-mailing crap, but then I realized that I was loosing the entire reason I started blogging in the first place. So I lost my trackers, and made it more difficult to comment. I get a fair share of e-mails that I reply to, and a comment here and there. Truth be told, if no one ever commented my feelings wouldn’t be hurt.

That’s just me though. :-/

I read your blog and comment rarely, the same with Anne, and Carlos and several other “bloggywood stars,” typically it’s because you all are much smarter than me and I’d rather not make a you know what of myself by looking like an idiot.

I think the bottom line is, you, as the blogger have to have a firm understanding of what it is you’re going for. Anne uses her blog in part as a research tool, thus the need for constant dialog, if you’re like Chris Elrod (http://www.chriselrod.com) and your blog is a learning resource then who the heck cares what comments you get. Ya know what I mean?