Blog comments make me either laugh or barf

just another strange graffic

I was reading an interesting email today. The topic was "how to manage your email". As usual, there were a few lines of text from the blog and then a link to read the entire article. I don't have any problem with that. In fact, this article was short and very sweet. The blogger put it all together in marvelous fashion. Not only that she provided a good solution.


But then came the comments from her adoring followers:


"What a great idea." said the first.


"this is a terrific idea." said another.


"Gotta love the timing of your post" piped in another because she just happened to be thinking about email solutions (time to roll your eyes)


"This is a great idea and I plan to do it more." but then the commenter called it a "poor man's approach".


on and on...... the people could not comment without adulation. 


But I do love the really funny comments I read at places like YouTube.


For a video about "business card etiquette (in the asian culture)" some comments were:


"what about if a women puts your card in her bra does that mean she is putting your face in her tits"


"  'Its like sitting on a persons face'  hahahaha "


"She's a total jerk.and idiot also :) she's a dumb ass."


"Can someone help me translate to Spanish this video?  Can anybody tell me briefly what this video?"


"this is a joke right?"


Overall, comments can be both educational and entertaining but too often they are just plain boring.


Greg Cryns
Work At Home Profiles
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Blog comments: at least try to be useful, ok?

Maybe you have seen the buzz out there about blog spam commenting.

Spam comments are those that do little to add good ideas to the discussion. What is the point of posting "Nice article!" or "Good job!" unless it is just to get brownie points with the person who wrote the blog? I guess you could make the argument that you were just in a hurry and wanted to show the blogger that you cared.

Well, I'm not buying that. I think you are more likely, in that case, to be trying to get someone to click to your website or to get some google juice.

Another issue I have with blog comments is that there is not much social interaction going on if the commentors are not talking to each other, and not just to the blogger. Here is an example of a blogger who gets involved and obviously (and successfully) gets some interaction among the posters: http://johnhaydon.com/2009/08/thesis-headway-war/#comment-14574581

I think there is much to be gained by reading good comments. I do it all the time. More often, I click on the commentor's name to see what he or she is doing on their blog. To me that is great value as so much of what I read in comments is just a lot of bruhaha.

Another problem I have with comments is that they are just too long. I mean, you should by now be able to pack a lot of punch in 140 characters. (ok, maybe a couple of paragraphs) But to blather on and on, give me a break. You aren't that smart. (and neither am I)

End of rant. Have a great day!

Greg Cryns

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