Jan 29 2008
Leaving Comments On This Blog
I welcome comments on this blog — suggestions, affirmations, critiques. Recent comments are highlighted on the sidebar. I thought it would be helpful to share my present “policy” (which is always open to feedback and revision) on comments.
I generally respond to comments very quickly by emailing the person who left the comment. I usually don’t, though, respond back in the comment section itself because I think people don’t often check the option that allows them to receive follow-up comments. I want to make sure they do indeed hear back from me.
Though I generally approve comments from the owners of sites who want my readers and me to check-out their websites, I typically will not respond to them.
My posts on the In Practice blog are a different matter. Those posts are usually designed to initiate a public conversation about the topic of the post, and comments from readers and my responses are published in that blog’s comment section.
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I agree Larry you are excellent responding back to commenters with email. Personally I wish I was as organised as you.
However I would recommend that you reconsider your thoughts on posting the comment on your blog. Regardless of if people do or don’t check back for a comment, your responding back to comments on your blog is more about demonstrating to readers that you are interesting in engaging in conversations. If I am reading someone’s blog for the first time and they get lots of comments and rarely responds to any on their actual blog it makes me wonder if they care. I know you care because you always email — but new readers won’t be aware of this. My personal recommendation would be to continue emailing plus paste the comment you email into the comment area of your post.
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Sue,
Good idea. I’ll start doing that. Thanks for taking the time to offer the suggestion.
Larry
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