{"id":779,"date":"2008-05-18T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/18\/31-day-comment-challenge-days-12-13\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T21:11:35","slug":"31-day-comment-challenge-days-12-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/18\/31-day-comment-challenge-days-12-13\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 12 – 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDay 12: Make Sure Your Blog Technology is “Comment Friendly”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, I examined the comment-friendliness of my posts. Today, I’m supposed to examine the comment-friendliness of the technologies I employ on my blog. Some blogs certainly do put up a lot of hurdles to people wanting to comment. For some reason, on Blogger blogs, I always fail to enter the captcha right the first time. Some blogs even require you to create an account to comment like on Lifehacker. <\/p>\n

On my blog, all someone has to do is enter a name and email address. There really isn’t anything else required of commenters. Everything should automatically show up on the blog unless the person entered a certain number of links at which point it gets held for moderation (and I get an email about it so I usually get to it relatively quickly). Every once in a while, Akismet grabs a comment that isn’t spam and throws it into my spam bin, so I check that at least twice a week. I try to use spam prevention technologies that don’t put any burden on the person posting, because I know I’m less likely to post a comment if I have to jump through hoops. <\/p>\n

Day 13: Write a Blog Post Using Comments<\/strong>
\nI actually unintentionally did this activity before I even read about it:<\/p>\n

For today’s task, we’re going to write a blog post that responds to comments. This can be a post that summarizes or reflects on comments we’ve received on our own blogs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The post I wrote on Thursday evening<\/a> was a reflection on the comments I’d received on my previous post about speaking, compensation and the like. I know that not everyone follows comments on other people’s blogs, and the comments on that original post were so rich and thought-provoking. I wanted to make sure people were aware of the dialogue and also to reflect on my own views regarding the various opinions expressed in the comments. <\/p>\n

A lot of the comment stuff in this challenge has focused on our own blogs. This is a place I feel like I’m doing a pretty good job of encouraging conversation. But if anyone has suggestions on how I could make this a better environment for conversation, please do let me know. I love that my blog gets comments and I learn so much from other people’s views, so if there’s something I can do to make it more likely that you’ll comment, I’d love to know about it.<\/p>\n

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