Blog comments are dead? What’s Your Say?

July 2, 2008 · Filed Under Blogging 

I’ve read over at Scobleizer that blog comments are dead. What made him say this may be out of personal observations or reasons, and I had the same observation, until now. 

As a blogger, my daily routine is to scan and search the Internet for interesting articles and present them in a easily digestable form so that readers would be enticed to come back for more. Once a certain topic or article touches or conflicts with someone elses’ personal taste, then it becomes a long and interesting thread wherein everyone will express their views and opinions.

The only problem I had (in the past, at least), is that those interesting discussions seems to be barred by comment spams coming from bots that relentlessly unleash advertisements and comment junks. So, instead of focusing our efforts in creating interesting content, our time is now divided between writing content and deleting spam comments.

My blog comments were dead, until I’ve installed Akismet. Just look at the sheer number of spam comments that are blocked by Akismet (the statistics are shown on my homepage by the way). I’ve prefer to let my readers see the Akismet stats so that they have a sense of assurance that all the comments here comes from humans that are really interested in the topics, not from spam bots.

Happy commenting!

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One Response to “Blog comments are dead? What’s Your Say?”

  1. neomatrix on July 4th, 2008 8:20 pm

    Some readers even post useless comment just to be the first on the list! Shame on them.

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