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Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

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Re: Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

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Post by deno »

That's just tuning parameters, there's nothing groundbreaking there. The title should be something more like:

Proposal: Sane defaults for blog commenting system

Still, commenting (if at all) should be very specific to character of the site commented upon. Like, for example, do you enable replying and threading? That's something that's very dependant on community dynamic.

Personally I think you should leave commenting and discussion for more ‘local’ communities — like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. Internet's just too big to aggregate all people's opinions on your site. And you can gain some more visiblity that way, too.

Re: Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

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Post by studer »

wwortiz wrote: post #3

This removes any real incentive to comment on an article as well as any use comments may provide (as they aren't going to be viewed when the largest traffic occurs but rather when people are looking through archives or revisiting old posts).

If your incentive for commenting is to be seen by others rather than provide feedback to the author, you're exactly the kind of commenter he wasn't interested in seeing:

"I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don't. I think they're publications. And I think the role of comments is to add value to the posts. If you want to rebut a post, then you can create your own blog and post your rebuttal there."

Re: Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

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Post by wwortiz »

studer wrote: post #6
wwortiz wrote: post #3

This removes any real incentive to comment on an article as well as any use comments may provide (as they aren't going to be viewed when the largest traffic occurs but rather when people are looking through archives or revisiting old posts).

If your incentive for commenting is to be seen by others rather than provide feedback to the author, you're exactly the kind of commenter he wasn't interested in seeing: "I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don't. I think they're publications. And I think the role of comments is to add value to the posts. If you want to rebut a post, then you can create your own blog and post your rebuttal th…

I haven't ever commented on a blog but I was responding more to this:

> And I think the role of comments is to add value to the posts.

Which you have quoted there. The value shouldn't just be for authors it should be for everyone, HN comments can add value to posts as well as value to the posts' authors but choosing one over the other seems silly to me.

If he doesn't want comments to be valuable to the community (can't really think of a better word) who reads his blog then he could simply add a contact me to the bottom of the page like Mark Pilgrims blog posts show after a while.

Re: Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

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Post by WiseWeasel »

Meh, 24 hours is too long to wait. By that time, I likely no longer care to read any comments on the subject, so they all go unread. I mean who is going to return to a blog post a day later just so they can read comments? Might as well just leave the comments off. Let's face it, the author is still working through his trauma from a time when he apparently left comments unmoderated and unrestricted and got burned, and this is his therapy. He's making his way back into the social, but he's taking baby steps.

Also, when you're boasting of feats like inventing blog comments, you might be slightly more prone to being trolled than your average blogger.

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