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Thinking About Disabling Blog Comments

Ari Herzog

I remember when commenting was a feature at the bottom of every newspaper and media website article. Initially, anyone could add a comment without a profile. Readers grew frustrated with the lag between the time they posted their comments and the time the comments were approved. Create a profile and write what you want.

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Rethinking Blog Comments Again

Ari Herzog

If you look at every blog post I wrote in 2014 in reverse chronological order from yesterday’s post rationalizing why I tweet to my first post on branding , the above numeric series indicates how many comments people wrote on each post. This includes my comments, too. Why do I allow people to comment if few do?

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! I’ve been thinking about this often.

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Eight Common Twitter Issues And Steps To Resolve Them

SocMed Sean

Shortly after its 2016 launch, Twitter began to make history. As one of the most popular social media sites, Twitter’s format of giving users the ability to post short messages was fairly novel at the time and has since been adopted in various forms by many other social media sites. Twitter Won’t Load At All.

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Shutting Down Blog Comments

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I think that I provoked the blog comment Gods today. Sorry about this, but the ability to comment on blog posts here at Six Pixels of Separation has been disabled. As you may (or may not) know, I have been blogging for over a decade. I love your comments, feedback and even those that disagree with me.

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Blogging Tip: Increase Your Traffic By Solving Problems

SocMed Sean

When it comes to blogging, the phrase “birds of a feather, flock together” rings very true. Those that visit your blog and read your articles consistently likely care about many of the same things you care about. I spent some time Googling terms like: viewing Twitter on a tablet in desktop view. The result?

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Reintroducing Blog Comment Moderation

Ari Herzog

It is common for companies (who don’t comprehend a blog comment is akin to having a conversation) to hire people to write manual comments on blogs all over the place in the hope an unsuspecting reader will click to learn more about the company product. Subsequent comments should be automatically added.

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