Comments on: Why Subscribe to Comments is crucial for WordPress blogs

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:39:23 +0000

Heh, thanks for that link. I’d never actually seen the penalty before, just heard about it. And he saves the fucking rebound too! Muppet.

and now I’ve proven the point about people going off on an irrelevant tangent

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:12:22 +0000

@Andrew: Good points man. I’ve seen that happen with a stream of comments and, as you say, that is better served by a forum/chat room. Blogs can poke discussion but meandering off the point and exploring things in depth can get tedious.

I found that penalty on Youtube. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKIX-z5r-m0 Have to admit I lol’d when he made such an effort to save it. Wrecked it for Keown.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:36:01 +0000

I take your point but don’t agree entirely. i prefer to browse around a few blogs rather than spent too much time on one, just using it like a chat room. When i see the really big blogs where people are clearly just staying on one page for hours and refreshing it constantly to keep up with a conversation it annoys me slightly because I think they’d be better off spreading those comments around. I read an Arsenal blog that gets over a thousand comments every day. It sounds impressive but in reality it’s only the same thirty or so people coming on every day and chatting. It puts me off commenting because I’m inclined to think that anything I might want to say about the actual content of the blog is just gonna be buried amongst all the crap people are saying to each other.
Surely big long chats are what forums, chatrooms and instant messaging is for. there’s definitely a place for discussing an issue in the comments but two much of it just gets tedious and could be a bit cliquey-looking and off-putting to any newcomers to a blog.

Christ, most of my posts aren’t this long.

Finally, I remembered the name of that keeper who saved Martin keown’s testimonial penalty. It was Robert Green. the little bollix.

By: anthony

anthony — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:04:28 +0000

Thanks for the feedback guys.

@Darren: It really does bridge the gap in terms of blog interaction.

@Phil: It’s up there for greatest plugin/

@le craic: I hadn’t heard of cocomment.com, will check it out.

By: le craic

le craic — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:32:19 +0000

It’s a must have feature totally. I only put it on mine when Rosie asked where it was.

As an alternative, people can use cocomment.com – it’s not ideal, but it’s better than nothing I guess.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:35:44 +0000

yup totally agree with you. single greatest plugin.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:41:25 +0000

I completely agree. I’ve told a number of people they should add this function. It makes the blog so much more interactive.