Top Ten Reasons I Closed Comments on this Blog
by Ben Atlas on 12.8.2009.10:42am · 0 comments
- Virtually all online communities are forum outlets superimposed on real groups or tribes, providing a conversational release to an existing culture. I don’t aspire to mirror any group-think.
- Emotional reactions, the “likes”, LOLs, “that was greats”, etc., bore me (see What is there to like on the Internet?).
- I have spoken on numerous occasions against anonymity on the Internet and especially against the changing handles. Anonymity is a conversational disease. I am not interested in talking to ghosts (see The Plague of the Internet Anonymity).
- Facebook and Twitter and the Social Media in general are drastically changing the dynamics of comments. People are less inclined to post a coherent paragraph, instead they comment in a few syllables or at most a sentence. Often people link to a post but continue the conversation on a platform where the link originated.
- I remain approachable via email, the platforms and even in real life.
- Akismet catches all of the spam, but the ongoing ritual of cleaning up the garbage is annoying.
- The posts I write are too advanced for most, I rarely get a comment or a feedback that is worth the engagement.
- I write to sort my own ideas and have zero expectation to the reward or understanding. I actually don’t need it. And I don’t care that much about the stats. Perhaps this is the reason why the readership is growing.
- Comments slow down the site and clutter the database. All commenting plugins that I tried, and I tried them all, are flawed.
- I might change my mind on this in the future.
Further reading: Tagged as:
blogosphere,
comments,
tribes
Top Ten Reasons I Closed Comments on this Blog
by Ben Atlas on 12.8.2009.10:42am · 0 comments
- Virtually all online communities are forum outlets superimposed on real groups or tribes, providing a conversational release to an existing culture. I don’t aspire to mirror any group-think.
- Emotional reactions, the “likes”, LOLs, “that was greats”, etc., bore me (see What is there to like on the Internet?).
- I have spoken on numerous occasions against anonymity on the Internet and especially against the changing handles. Anonymity is a conversational disease. I am not interested in talking to ghosts (see The Plague of the Internet Anonymity).
- Facebook and Twitter and the Social Media in general are drastically changing the dynamics of comments. People are less inclined to post a coherent paragraph, instead they comment in a few syllables or at most a sentence. Often people link to a post but continue the conversation on a platform where the link originated.
- I remain approachable via email, the platforms and even in real life.
- Akismet catches all of the spam, but the ongoing ritual of cleaning up the garbage is annoying.
- The posts I write are too advanced for most, I rarely get a comment or a feedback that is worth the engagement.
- I write to sort my own ideas and have zero expectation to the reward or understanding. I actually don’t need it. And I don’t care that much about the stats. Perhaps this is the reason why the readership is growing.
- Comments slow down the site and clutter the database. All commenting plugins that I tried, and I tried them all, are flawed.
- I might change my mind on this in the future.
Further reading:Tagged as: blogosphere, comments, tribes