Comments on: Housekeeping notes, and wordpress updates

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:29:20 +0000

I admit it, I just like playing with new stuff! Also, did you want to link to your blog? I’m always curious to check these things out and I bet other people will be also.

This is another old trick also, when you write a reply and the form gives you the option to put in a URL, you can put your blog address. That’s how the other people who replied here have blog links behind their names.

By: dorfeater

dorfeater — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:06:19 +0000

Ooh, features I didn’t know existed

Being new here, I like these features because they can give me feedback on what people are mostly looking for when they visit my blog. I’d imagine for you more established Bloggers that you get enough feedback from your readers via comments.

I have to agree with Larisa, the reblogging feature sounds strange. Might be something to toy around with though.

By: Larísa

Larísa — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:21:39 +0000

Oh dear. Someone just gave my comment a thumb-up. I’m not sure if I like it tbh. I don’t mind people arguing with my comments – agreeing or disagreeing. But being the subject to some sort of popularity voting… it gives me the creeps. For some reason I can’t quite pinpoint. I guess it becomes a bit too much similar a popularity contest.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:14:07 +0000

Oh I just like to fiddle with stuff and see how it works out.

For example, I think being able to have comments with limited threading (eg. you can reply directly to a comment and your reply will be shown indented) has been pretty cool and has encouraged more chat in comments.

This is just for fun though, I won’t be moderating comments just because people hate them.

By: Tam

Tam — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:02:32 +0000

That sounds … complicate? Luddite fear kicks in.

I have confess I never err Liked your posts, but that’s becuase, in general, I like your posts. Does that make any sense at all? But possibly I am just doing it wrong….

By: Larísa

Larísa — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:04:40 +0000

I’m probably a little bit oldfashioned, but I prefer a clear manual reference to that automatic re-blog thing. It just looks confusing to me. And I’ve never taken rating of posts or comments to my heart either. It enourages troll-like behaviour. It’s easier to down-rate something just to be annoying and mean than it is to write a trollish comment, which will take more effort. I suppsoe it’s meant to add interaction between the blogger and the readers but I don’t think it does, at least not any valuable.

But to each one his own of course! If you enjoy it and think it’s good you should have it on your blog.