Why don’t readers leave comments on my blog?
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PSB, link to your blog, please!
I find the best way to deal with nasty commenters is to quietly block them. Don’t respond. That’s all they’re after anyway – a rise out of you.
Comment moderation for newcomers is the way to go. Once you have first appoved a commenter, you can be pretty sure she doesn’t have three heads with psycho problems in each. From then on she can comment without your first having to approve it. But newcomers ALWAYS should get vetted first. Works for me any way.
Only been targetted by weirdos a few times, and it’s actually kind of fun to see the tactics they use. One guy tried to scare me into thinking that Iranian Secret Service Agents were tapping into my phone lines. He even provided pages and pages of numerical code to somehow prove how my mails and such were being deciphered. :-)
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Most of the readers are not interested to comment. They will pass on to new topic.If your topic is interesting all will comment .I have no doubt on it.
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sblgeomatics
If your topic is interesting all will comment .I have no doubt on it.Er, no, they won’t. As has been said repeatedly, most people just want to read. And that’s OK – just so long as they come. Oh, and lose the advertising, friend – this isn’t the place for it.
lettershometoyou
Looks like you’ve had some interesting fruitcakes – sadly, I just get the rabid variety. Ah well…
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@ tvmediaradio, pornstarbabylon, and lettershometoyou – I want comments not wackos and threats so I’m glad that there’s not much controversy in my area. Thanks for letting me know when I’m well off.
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Thing is, buy, that you are in charge of your blog. You get to choose what comments get published, and which ones don’t. It’s all there in the settings tab on your dashboard.
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I have to say that not many people comment. Sole Sirius gets about 1300 hits per day and the usual amount of comments is about 5 or six per day. People don’t usually comment because they just don’t have anything to add to your post. Or because they don’t know how to start their sentence. Propose a question at the end of your posts, write comments on other blogs, trade links, and get contributors. All of this will help you to receive more comments, but don’t get your hopes up.
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People don’t comment? This thing never bothered me before. When i first started writing here on WP i didn’t write it for an audience. But then,the number on my blog stats keeps going up and i often wonder who might have been to my site. So, i started asking myself ‘how come no one is nice enough to come and leave an ‘inspiring’comment here?. All i get was a few spams from some companies which are of no relevance to me.
On the same note though, i’ve just come across a blog site of a teacher who’s moving to Saigon. On his site he has something that kind of like asking the readers to click on a link if they would like him to send them an e-mail if there is an update on his site. I think it’s kinda cool and easy to use.
I hate to write from an egocentric pov,so to broaden my horizon, i have visited other blogs and if i like the content i’ll leave some really encouraging albeit long comment.
I don’t hope for any reply because all i am doing was to respond in an honest way to their posts but it would be nice if someone could leave a comment on one of the things that i’ve written here on WP.
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I blog about a controversial subject — evolution and creationism — yet the comments I’ve received (ignoring my responses) are only about 1% of the pageviews. That’s more than enough for me. Some people blog for the feedback, but I blog to blog. There’s a difference.
It’s possible that my comment count is low because no one cares what I write, but my Google PageRank suggests otherwise. I suspect it’s because I actively discourage debates. I’ve been involved in too much of that at other websites, and it always degenerates into a food-fight. Moderating that kind of thing is far too much work.
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On the flip side, too many comments. I find it a huge turn-off to come across a blog that gets hundreds and hundreds of comments on each post. The first comments are often really inspiring, like: First! There’s no incentive to join the discussion because it’s not really a discussion, just a bunch of disconnected babbling.
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Which will make life with IntenseDebate quite interesting.
On my photography blog, the only post that really has any comments is the NTOWPCOMGallery FAQ. Everything else is as silent as a tomb. On my daily ramblings blog, it depends on the topic. Knitting posts however are the least commented, even though I have a specialized feed on ravelry. So it goes.
All good suggestions here, too.
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Jungleofords, why don’t you link your name to your blog? Then I could have clicked on your name in this thread and left a comment.
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Comments come far & few for example my stats say I have had 780
visitors so far & only 2 comments & with your blog being about yarn
which is fine but it’s not one of those topics that bring a lot of
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Of course I knew when I posted my original question that yarn and weaving do not generate “hot button” issues (thank goodness), but it was reassuring for me just to find out that comments are rarer than I thought they were. Coincidentally, a reader left a terrific comment on a new post yesterday, and it felt great. Thanks WPers for all the consructive feedback.
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l’m another for the ‘Be careful of what you ask’.
My previous blog got totally trashed by comment leavers. l used to write for a publication and had a following of friends and foe. The foe went overboard at times to the stage they entered my personal life, that of my child and my workplace. Free for all comments gave some a chance to have their (jaded and warped) say. Sure, l could delete the comments but l don’t think baby-sitting a blog is that grand.
This new blog is comment moderatated. No one is getting past unless l see it. l have a handful of buddies who l would trust to free-post their comments but l’m not smart enough to work out how to do that.
Call me old and paranoid, but ‘comments’ scare me a lot.
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