Comments on: Commenter’s Burnout http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/ Hire a Blogger Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:36:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ten Ways To Create a Balance While Commenting on Blogs | Create a Balance http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-9373 Ten Ways To Create a Balance While Commenting on Blogs | Create a Balance Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:03:41 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-9373 [...] comment just for the sake of getting your name out there. You will eventually get commenter’s burnout. Comment to add your voice to the [...] [...] comment just for the sake of getting your name out there. You will eventually get commenter’s burnout. Comment to add your voice to the [...]

]]> By: asrai http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-8187 asrai Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:11:03 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-8187 My biggest problem with commenting (link love to write from home for sending me to your blog) is I never go back and read follow ups. I don't care if the blogger replies to me most of the time. I like forums because they encourage discussions and debates. Blogs and comments don't do that as well. You post something, I comment and then I don't come back to your blog unless you've written something new. y'know for the most part. My biggest problem with commenting (link love to write from home for sending me to your blog) is I never go back and read follow ups. I don’t care if the blogger replies to me most of the time.

I like forums because they encourage discussions and debates. Blogs and comments don’t do that as well. You post something, I comment and then I don’t come back to your blog unless you’ve written something new.

y’know for the most part.

]]> By: Michael http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-7903 Michael Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:59:52 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-7903 interesting thoughts. I get annoyed with the whole highschool mentality of all these grown up people that somehow have hours and hours to sit around and do nothing... I guess thats why I do the journal thing. Its for me, not for a comment that I write. some days just the word blog annoys me. You have a lot of interesting posts here, obviously a lot of work, I appreciate it. Thought I would let you know. Peace interesting thoughts. I get annoyed with the whole highschool mentality of all these grown up people that somehow have hours and hours to sit around and do nothing… I guess thats why I do the journal thing. Its for me, not for a comment that I write. some days just the word blog annoys me.

You have a lot of interesting posts here, obviously a lot of work, I appreciate it. Thought I would let you know.
Peace

]]> By: Kevin http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-7842 Kevin Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:03:29 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-7842 Very interesting post, Vered. As an avid blogger-reader, here are my personal guidelines for reading blogs, leaving comments, and interacting with bloggers: (1) follow closely the blogs you truly enjoy reading on a regular basis; the moment you realize you’ve been skimming the titles (usually after a week or so, or sooner), drop it like a hot potato; (2) leave comments on posts that (a) resonate enjoyably with your understanding of what really and truly matters to you, and (b) allow you to clarify your thinking and/or feeling more deeply on some issue; and (3) gauge your interest in a blog by how compelled you feel to return to the comments section to either (a) read the blogger’s response to your comment or (b) leave another comment that furthers the discussion and/or more deeply clarifies an issue for you. Addendum: email bloggers who resonate deeply with your way of understanding the world to express appreciation for their work, while remaining respectful of their time, i.e., be very forgiving of them if they don’t or can’t respond quickly and/or deeply to your appreciation and/or desire for interaction. Very interesting post, Vered.

As an avid blogger-reader, here are my personal guidelines for reading blogs, leaving comments, and interacting with bloggers: (1) follow closely the blogs you truly enjoy reading on a regular basis; the moment you realize you’ve been skimming the titles (usually after a week or so, or sooner), drop it like a hot potato; (2) leave comments on posts that (a) resonate enjoyably with your understanding of what really and truly matters to you, and (b) allow you to clarify your thinking and/or feeling more deeply on some issue; and (3) gauge your interest in a blog by how compelled you feel to return to the comments section to either (a) read the blogger’s response to your comment or (b) leave another comment that furthers the discussion and/or more deeply clarifies an issue for you. Addendum: email bloggers who resonate deeply with your way of understanding the world to express appreciation for their work, while remaining respectful of their time, i.e., be very forgiving of them if they don’t or can’t respond quickly and/or deeply to your appreciation and/or desire for interaction.

]]> By: Tabitha (From Single to Married) http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6931 Tabitha (From Single to Married) Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:28:30 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6931 Personally, I'm torn on this issue. I can see how it can be a problem and how one could become "burned out." I recently started my own blog and have taken others' advice to heart in that I should comment on other blogs as a way to get myself out there. I won't lie to you - it works. That's how I get most of my readers since I am fairly new. Not only that, but I really enjoy the blogs that I read. I started out by looking at the top a-lister's blogs just to see if there was traffic, but now that I'm developing my blogging stride, if you will, I am reading those blogs that I truly enjoy and commenting on them because as a new blogger, I appreciate comments myself. I also realize that I need to be careful because I find it all too easy to spend hours and hours just reading blogs which can be a big time waster. Personally, I’m torn on this issue. I can see how it can be a problem and how one could become “burned out.” I recently started my own blog and have taken others’ advice to heart in that I should comment on other blogs as a way to get myself out there. I won’t lie to you – it works. That’s how I get most of my readers since I am fairly new. Not only that, but I really enjoy the blogs that I read. I started out by looking at the top a-lister’s blogs just to see if there was traffic, but now that I’m developing my blogging stride, if you will, I am reading those blogs that I truly enjoy and commenting on them because as a new blogger, I appreciate comments myself. I also realize that I need to be careful because I find it all too easy to spend hours and hours just reading blogs which can be a big time waster.

]]> By: selina http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6711 selina Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:22:43 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6711 I've just found this post through apricot tea and enjoyed reading your take, i did a similar post a while ago here: <a href="http://flyingsaucer.typepad.com/flyingsaucer/2008/06/like-tell-me-ab.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tell Me About It!</a> I now think of comments more of a tool for the people that want to make a comment, rather than a neccessity or the 'polite' thing to do once reading a post someone has written. For example, if comments didn't exist, then alot of people would read and want to put forward their say, but as they do, it's not a rule of reading blogs to say you haaaave to comment. I'm not sure, my thoughts change too much to be totally solid, but I do think that if people are finding it a competition, then they are looking at it as a competition-it doesn't have to be just because numbers are involved. I’ve just found this post through apricot tea and enjoyed reading your take, i did a similar post a while ago here:

Tell Me About It!

I now think of comments more of a tool for the people that want to make a comment, rather than a neccessity or the ‘polite’ thing to do once reading a post someone has written. For example, if comments didn’t exist, then alot of people would read and want to put forward their say, but as they do, it’s not a rule of reading blogs to say you haaaave to comment. I’m not sure, my thoughts change too much to be totally solid, but I do think that if people are finding it a competition, then they are looking at it as a competition-it doesn’t have to be just because numbers are involved.

]]> By: Why GTD Contexts Are More Work (For Me) | Productive Flourishing http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6618 Why GTD Contexts Are More Work (For Me) | Productive Flourishing Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:48:14 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6618 [...] thinking, I entreat you to take note of this blog post. This one’s not about the whole “To shut off comments or not to” discussions - rather, it’s an example of how two bloggers keep conversations [...] [...] thinking, I entreat you to take note of this blog post. This one’s not about the whole “To shut off comments or not to” discussions – rather, it’s an example of how two bloggers keep conversations [...]

]]> By: Shevonne http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6509 Shevonne Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:47:03 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6509 I comment just cause I really like what the person wrote. I could care less if he or she visits my blog. I guess for other people it's a different story. I comment just cause I really like what the person wrote. I could care less if he or she visits my blog. I guess for other people it’s a different story.

]]> By: kat http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6480 kat Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:17:58 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6480 @momgrind Haha. I guess it could seem that way. I think though, that comments are better, feel better, if they aren't obligatory. You did leave a comment on my blog and it didn't feel obligatory, but I have had comments that feel that way, and they are left within hours of my comment... and it left me feeling a little meh... like I'm playing some sort of game or something. Of course maybe some sites just want traffic. I think my opinions on this may be out of the norm on this topic - sorry! kat's last blog post..<a href="http://kathybou.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/salt-mines-krakow/" rel="nofollow">Salt mines, Krakow</a> @momgrind Haha. I guess it could seem that way. I think though, that comments are better, feel better, if they aren’t obligatory. You did leave a comment on my blog and it didn’t feel obligatory, but I have had comments that feel that way, and they are left within hours of my comment… and it left me feeling a little meh… like I’m playing some sort of game or something. Of course maybe some sites just want traffic. I think my opinions on this may be out of the norm on this topic – sorry!

kat’s last blog post..Salt mines, Krakow

]]> By: Hump Day Reading for the Restless Soul — Write From Home http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6470 Hump Day Reading for the Restless Soul — Write From Home Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:21:46 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/10/21/blog-comments/#comment-6470 [...] Is There Such A Thing As Commenter’s Burnout? at MomGrind [...] [...] Is There Such A Thing As Commenter’s Burnout? at MomGrind [...]

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