Monday, February 12, 2007

Strange but true: bloggers blog for comments

Recently my number one commenter (no prizes for guessing who that is) said that he felt he was monopolising the comments area and should scale back his comments. This is just plain wrong, for two reasons.

No blogger ever complained about getting too many comments. What is discouraging, however, is when you devote a Sunday morning to creating a slideshow of your husband trying valiantly to assemble a crib and then NOONE COMMENTS. Did they see it? Did they like it? Did they laugh? You'll never know if they don't comment.

Some people of course prefer to email their comments privately, which is fine, but it does mean your blog displays 'O comments' at the bottom of your post, and no blogger likes to see that.

So let's have a reader poll - after 18 months of trekking with tigers (reborn as SAHM SAHM but different), is it worth continuing? Does anybody care one way or the other?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I still love you Rac... No matter how much you change the name or the content.

WRT the crib... sometimes you have to bite your tongue. It needed a timeline to really set the scene. Otherwise it looked like a competent job done well, with just a few slightly bemused looks to the camera.

Anonymous said...

PS: I know that other members of the family follow your blog but are too scared of the technology to leave a comment. Particularly my Mum. Bump's G'g'ma!

Rachel Matheson said...

I know this is hard to believe, but Jules actually DID put the crib together competently and quickly. The camera doesn't lie!

Kara said...

you can't stop! I just found your blog. :)

Anonymous said...

Of course we don't want you to stop. What are you thinking?