Comments on: More on commenting

By: bj

bj — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:03:12 +0000

Indeed, I do feel like part of a community in the few blogs I post on. I’ve compared it to a “salon”. For me, that means civility, because the commenters & blogger are part of a community and a topic of discussion (because of the work of the blogger in framing a topic) and history (because I know where people are coming from when they comment, through their past history of comments).

I don’t blog, and so the community of bloggers (cross-linking) was only useful to me because it helped me find blogs I’m interested in reading (not because I wanted my blog linked). But, I’ll be around commenting as long as people like you and Laura at 11d, and Dawn at this Woman’s work are blogging.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:17:43 +0000

I was wondering why Haloscan came about–I wasn’t on blogger until after it had comment capacity, I guess.

You make a really good point, Laura, that with comments, the original post ends up being more than it was to start with.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:08:57 +0000

When I first started, blogger didn’t have comments, thus, Haloscan. Once blogger added comments, some people switched to the built-in ones, but a lot of us stuck with Haloscan.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:14:29 +0000

What you said…

I never quite understood what the advantage of Haloscan comments was over the built in comments on blogger.

Truly, the conversations we had were wonderful. And the people we met. I’m terribly sad at the idea that these are really over…

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:06:42 +0000

What I enjoy about comments is the chance to learn more about the people behind them–in precisely the sorts of spaces you reference, Laura. FB serves a similar sort of purpose, but only for people who already know each other. I like the chance that comments offer to find other people who like to think and talk about the same things I do.