I, sadly, was guilty of writing a blog-guilt post the other week and I feel very sad to have done so… even apologized in the following post.

Yet, I love comments! It honestly just feels so good to know that someone is reading the stuff that I love writing…

In terms of commenting on other people’s blogs, I usually don’t because I still haven’t quite gotten the hang of talking to people I don’t know about things they’ve written (I am kinda of ready to be done with that shyness)!! When it’s the blog of someone I know, I love to comment, because I know how good it feels to get a comment on my own posts.

There’s my comment confession.

And now, now that I know how fun it can be to drop a zinger (if I’m lucky) comment, I’m hooked, and my readership soared. It’s like crack — the one-liner comment crack. Only I rarely keep it to one line, so maybe it’s like coke. Dunno, I never did drugs.

What were we talking about?

Kidding. As I said, I’ve seen all sides of this issue and still prefer the interaction of comments. But the tyranny of blogging must be recognized, or we all burn out.

– Laurie

I also am quick to comment if I think a post is especially funny or poignant, just because I want the poster to know that I appreciated their thoughts. I’m not looking for a visit back, and I don’t think that I’m owed a comment back from them. Sometimes I just like letting the poster know that they did a good job.

Of course I’d still keep reading The Glamorous Life if it becomes a comment-free zone, but you can probably expect more emails from me, if that’s the case!

For my own blog, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when I get comments, but if nobody comments I’m not freaking out about it either. I love interacting with people who read my blog and also with those who read the blogs I comment on.

I think ‘no comments’ would make it feel more disconnected than the internet world already is – and I wouldn’t like that much.

I only comment when I fell I have something salient to say, or if I have a snide comment (the sarcasm is strong in this one). I won’t comment just for the sake of it, and I don’t feel bad when I have nothing to add to the author’s words.

I love to see comments on something I’ve written, but I’m not pressed if no one says anything – I figure, I didn’t hit a button or make the connection, or maybe I actually said something in such a way that they felt they couldn’t add to it (in which case, score one for me!!). Whatever.

I think comments are a fine way to hone ones skills and to connect to the larger community. I’d miss them, but if you didn’t have them I’d still read ya.

Shade and Sweetwater,
K

I don’t want to change Marcy’s topic, but I would strongly encourage all bloggers to have an email address on the blogsite so they can be reached privately. Sometimes a post I read moves me in a way that I would like to share something with the author and not the entire world wide web. I will dig and dig and dig and I am often unable to come up with an e-mail address. You can remain private if you use your blog’s name as your email address and not use your personal name.

Now, back to the topic of comments … I just get really excited when I look at stat counter and see that people are staying longer than zero seconds!

Yippee ;)

That’s what I thought. Clear as mud.

Sometimes I write what I think will be a very well-received post and no one comments and I start to imagine all of the reasons why they haven’t, the myriad ways I might have offended someone. I get a little self-conscious and have to sit on my hands to keep from deleting the post. But the feeling passes and eventually I get over it. It doesn’t stop me from looking forward to comments but I do know that the world keeps turning without them.