Opening the comments here

For some reason, I’ve kept the comments closed here so far. A couple reasons that come to mind:

  • I didn’t want the discouragement of post after post with no comments (somehow, turning them off altogether was supposed to solve that).
  • I didn’t want to worry about spam.
  • I didn’t want to worry about moderating and replying to them.
  • I wanted to keep all the comment in one place (it gets crazy when they’re comments on Facebook, Twitter, a comment section and elsewhere).
  • Seth Godin has his comments closed, and he’s cool.

But after getting quit a few complaints, epecially since it looks like the comments are open but broken because of the link that I can’t get rid of.

I realized, though, that conversation and serving you guys is far more important than the reasons I had for keeping the comments closed.

Will I keep them up forever? Perhaps not.

For now, they’re open. Have at it, and I’ll see you there.

[Update: I’ve changed up the commenting again. You can read more about the new comment version here.]

16 Comments

  1. Too cool, right? Hope to see you around instead of this being all about this carrot juice drinker.

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

  2. There have been quite a few posts I have wanted to leave a comment on. You should keep them open for a while.

    I had a blog on wordpress.com and used to get some comments but then wordpress changed their front page and took the tag cloud off. After that I didn’t receive as many.

    Hope you get lots! 🙂

    PS: I don’t think you have threaded comments on. .com has that feature.

  3. Because conversation isn’t always about talking about something – sometimes it’s just about conversating. :>)

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

  4. Good call, David.

    I’ve wanted to keep this blog totally simple, but alas, my blogging tendencies are taking over… perhaps I’ll break down and create some pages too.

    I thought I had enabled threaded comments. Evidently, I’d unchecked the box then set the number of threaded comments at 10. FAIL! Looks like they’re up and running now though.

    Thanks for the support.

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

  5. Yes and no. I’m not moderating them ahead of time if that’s what you mean.

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

  6. No idea… sorry I can’t help you there. I don’t have any filters on (that I know of) except if you post more than one link in one comment.

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

  7. Love it… thanks for joining… ahem… creating the conversation. :>)

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

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