Your comments?
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 08:53AM It's not really a big secret.
Writers like knowing that they have been read. I don't care how loud the protestations of bloggers who insist they write "only for themselves" or "for personal growth," every public scribbler likes knowing other people have considered what they have written. If they didn't, they'd be writing in a spiral notebook - probably locked away in a garret. I just don't envision Emily Dickinson having a "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" blog.
Anywho, if you would like to make a blogger's day, leave a comment on a post. Agree, disagree, add, or just say thanks, but make it heart-felt. Make it relevant. Don't be a troll.
If you are a blogger and receive a comment, I've always thought it polite to say thanks to the commenter when possible. This is not a universally practiced - or endorsed - practice. Somehow, I just think if a person has given up a chunk of life to read and craft a response, I should be grateful.
- To encourage you to make commenting a regular practice, check out Kim Cofino's 31 Day Comment Challenge. (It's day 3 and I am already a week behind - how does that happen?) For those who really like structure, see the Comment Challenge wiki. Check out using coComment, even though it doesn't work on the Blue Skunk.
- To help guide your commenting "etiquette" check out Darren Draper's Edublogger Etiquette - Responding To Comments. Actually read his entire etiquette series. Interesting stuff.
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Oops, that's probably NOT the right attitude on the t-shirt...
(Ironically, I've had to turn off comments on this post since it gets hit regularly by spammers.)
Reader Comments (24)
Not wanting to be a "Lurker" (Is that like a Read-By?), your encouragement to "newbies" to leave comments are well taken.
The 'T' shirt comment-Priceless. As a seventh grader teacher, this thought bubble comes often when dealing with a few
students who parents have allowed the whine to continue. Posted on my desk,"Thou Shalt Not Whine"
I always see your blog.
I am looking forward to renewal of your blog.
Please take a look my site, if it's possible.
I stopped "lurking" a long time ago...figured I'd say something and what goes around comes around. Annette Funachello is OK also, Doug Johnson. RobyRed Grapefruit can blog on the fly. Make notes and copy to blogs to save time. Myska may like ska music. Robin Cicchetti is an unregistered commenter. Dunno how email gets to an unregistered commenter as Kim Cofino.
Adreanne cited a quote and added that it would be difficult to stuff a spiral notebook in a Garret Snuff can? YES! Mary M is a stead reader! That's GOOD! I like your blog as well,Doug.
Jane L' Hyde is also a fan and tried to comment on Keith Johnson commentless blog.
HMMM, maybe the lurkers are reading! No that Jane would just "lurk". She had very nice comments above.
Thanks, I think, Ernesto. The comments lead to conversations and then real learning occurs!
Doug