Blog Growth and Communities/ Part 2
There’s a really nice long list of comments underneath the prior post Blogging Communities. It makes me very happy just to look at it. My own son left a comment there. He hasn’t done that before. And my sister Linda left a comment. Some other folks who I haven’t heard from in awhile left a comment.
It just makes me realize that this is the most important thing about blogging to me. I would like to have more readers but that’s just not as important.
Maybe I will start a group. Would you like to join a group of bloggers who agree to leave comments when they read your blog? How radical is that?!
How would you identify someone who belongs to this group? Maybe we could find a little symbol to put up on the sidebar. What would it look like? I don’t know. Maybe it could say something like “I comment to be polite”.
But basically all you are saying is that if and when you visit bloggers who are part of this group you will leave a comment. We could also make an honest effort to always comment when visiting any blog.
But the main focus should be on a core group that is really trying to do better.
So it should be possible after a little while to have some better conversations with other bloggers. And bloggers who have this notice on their sidebar might actually find they attract more comments. Because if they return the visit they can be counted on to make a comment!
Members would also benefit from linking to other group members. Because they would have something very important in common.
Where are those widgets? I’m putting something up right now.
Update: I changed the sidebar statement to “I read and comment”.
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I don’t think I would want to force people to comment David, I think that would discourage alot of visits, but I definitely agree that a little good job or neat site wouldn’t hurt.
I honestly only want people to comment who really care anyway, I was on a Nature site where you are supposed to comment to help each other out, but it became such a joke with people only commenting on your image if you would comment on theirs first. Then if you said something too critical of someone else’s work you got froze out by them and their friends, I kinda like the way things are now:)
That’s fine. I am just looking for something to encourage commenting. All the stuff you describe is way beyond what I was suggesting.
Yeah, forcing somone to comment would be the death knell…
Also, if I wanted aggravation I would hangoutat dpreview…
What is this “forcing someone to comment” stuff? I was suggesting just the opposite. I am horrified at the idea I was trying to force anyone to do anything. Really. And what is dpreview? Or maybe I don’t want to know. Is it as bad as Bernie’s crew?
My suggestion session is officially over, btw. My first suggestion about growing a network got no response. And this got a negative response. So I am officially 0 for 2! My third suggestion is going to be that I have no more suggestions!