Comments on: Russell Beattie drops comments

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:32:39 +0000

Hey Tom,

Maybe one day we’ll find something to agree on.

The sky’s blue…

By: Tom Coates

Tom Coates — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:24:21 +0000

Yeah but come on – there were weblogs way before there were comments on weblogs. It was a couple of years before comments were stable and functional on a lot of people’s sites. People still had conversations, they just had them between weblogs, using their referral logs and directing people to the conversations that people were having.

When you get enough traffic, I’m pretty sure comments can become unsustainable, difficult to manage and leave you under continual spam attack and dealing with unmanageable troll activity. I’m not at that point, personally, but I’ve been near it a few times. Boing Boing passed it years ago. People don’t have a responsibility to maintain their personal sites, and you have to accept that people will cut back their engagement depending on their workload.

By: Photar

Photar — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:23:03 +0000

I think this thread shows a decent level of participation. I wouldn’t expect anyone to reply to everything. But at the same time when people ask direct questions and get ignored its annoying.

As for my blog. I’ll be the first to admit that my blog is complete garbage. Mostly because I’m coding it myself and also in large part because I have as of now not written anything interesting.

As for not replying to my comments I think you’re confused. All of the blog entries are mine and all of the comments are also mine.

By: Simon Brocklehurst

Simon Brocklehurst — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:47:16 +0000

Did Russell say that he thinks comments are a bad idea? I thought he said he *likes* comments in principle, because he learns from them.

The way I read what he wrote, it seems that he simply finds it too difficult to cope with an average of 20 comments a day on his blog. Specifically, he said he had become obsessed with reading and thinking about these comments; and that this took a significant percentage of his brain power.

Surely, this is a personal thing. Some people can easily cope with reading 20 comments a day. Some can’t. Russell appears to fit in the second category.

By: Marco Barulli

Marco Barulli — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:52:01 +0000

Ben, Russell Beattie and Dave Winer are celebrities, maybe they don't need bodyguards, but their blogs do need protection! To effectively manage comments to their posts, they cannot rely on antispam tools, they need a reputation system to assess how cool is this bold reader that dare sending a comment to their venerable blogs. This is basically what we are trying to obtain with our proposal of a reputation system for blog comments. There are lengthy posts about it on the Clipperz blog, http:///www.clipperz.net. See the latest revision. To test this proposal we are planning to: - design an API for the reputation managers; - implement a functional and free reputation manager service at clipperz.com (the site will go live shortly) - (trying to) implement reputation modules for a couple of leading blogging platforms (with a lot of help from their communities) Anyone interested?

By: Friday Night

Friday Night — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:49:28 +0000

Although, I can understand that some blogs may get too many comments, and that person may feel overwhelmed; I think it was completely wrong for RB to delete all of the past comments. I have to say that comments, positive or negative, make for a more interesting read. It exposes new layers of thinking. RB should bring back commenting.

By: Hashim

Hashim — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:11:53 +0000

open comments means that you’re making yourself a steward of other people’s content. He just broke all types of silent agreements with his readers

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:09:53 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, Ben. I think blogging is about conversation, and without comments it’s more like preaching. I know Russell and others no doubt believe that what they have to say is so important people will read it even without the ability to comment, but I’m not sure they’re right. I know that in some cases I get more out of the comments on a blog than I did out of the original post — or at least as much anyway. Removing comments isn’t old school, it’s dumb school.