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| Written by Jono Cono Blogs I refuse to comment on are unfortunately many. My reason for this is not trivial, at least I don’t think so. There are many blogs I come across that are great and I would love to comment on them and join the conversation. The problem is a lot of these blogs are having a one way conversation in a manner of speaking (blogging).
In visiting a great blog and reading the wonderfully written post I am inspired to go and comment only to find out one of a few things. Anonymous comments are disabled or not allowed, you have to register to comment and/or no link luv is being given. When I see something like that I usually feel snubbed and don’t bother. Not only do I not bother leaving a comment, I never bother visiting that blog again. For one, there are too many blogs out there to bother registering with each one just so I can comment. Two, even if I did what’s the point? I become a random comment at the end of the post with no link back to who I am. I’ve been around on the web long enough that someone could do a web search for Jono Cono and easily find my blog but is that the way it’s supposed to work? Not really!
Some blogs may be set up this way to get away from comment spam and/or having to deal with comment moderation. These are valid issues and can be a pain to deal with. There are other methods of dealing with those issues while still allowing anonymous (name/url) comments with links. For instance you could use security (captcha) images for verification and the like. I used to get thousands of spam comments until I added simple security images for verification and now along with Askimet 0 spam gets through everyday. This way any human being can easily comment and become part of the conversation leaving a link back to their own blog or site. If for whatever reason you want people to register then their profile name could at least link back to their site/blog if they have one.
Great conversations should flow back and forth with people being able to take an active part in them. It’s more than just writing words in response but leaving links back to who we are. That becomes our online substance in being part of the blogging community.
