Would you comment?

Posted by Simon

July 9, 2008

I think part of blogging is giving something back to the readers. 9/10 would be the ability to have your name “John Doe” with a link to your site on any comments that are made. Recently I have noticed that couple of sites have turned off the ability to enter your website. What’s the point in that?

This has certainly put me off from commenting on such blogs. Why? Blogging is 2 ways. Usually if you’re commenting on an article you’re either interested in the subject and learning or you’re first hand experience in the subject. Surely this type of interaction benefits both the author and the reader?

Comments are great. If they contain some interesting. This could be a different direction on the subject in hand or maybe some advice that could enhance your thoughts/opinions. With all this in mind it gives me reasoning behind adding the commentluv plugin. What is the commentluv plugin?

Pass a bit of luv onto your commenters by providing a titled link to their last blog post. This plugin attempts to parse the feed of the comment author by visiting their site and looking in the standard locations for a feed. If no default feed is found, it will attempt to parse the users page for a feed link and parse that instead.
* source : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commentluv/

This blog is still in birth really but the commentluv plugin I hope will entice readers to comment