Blog, social media - did they forget?
It seems that top bloggers started to forget what blog is about. It is called social media, because people interact with each other. In my opinion the integral part of this interaction is the comments section. However, a lot of famous bloggers turned off that feature completely. Other blogs such as MarketingProfs have very strict rules. I couldn’t post two comments during 48 hours, even though I wanted to respond to one of the comments. Other guy says that comment needs to be approved before it is posted – and it is all happening when most of the posts don’t have comments at all. How is that interacting? Of course I understand that these all are efforts to reduce comment spam, or more correctly save a publisher time he or she would spend weeding out spam. However, is that a solution? In my opinion that will lead to a blog that just becomes a website that is updated daily no more, no less.
May 13th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Hey Mr. R — I’m sorry you couldn’t post your comments on the MarketingProfs blog. I’m actually VERY keen on interacting with the audience, so I’m bummed you couldn’t post it/them. Do you recall the error message you received? If this happens in the future be sure to email me directly…ann@marketingprofs.com
May 14th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Ann wow I am surprised you left a comment. The message was some like that “in an effort to reduce spam you can’t post two messages in 48 hours.”
May 14th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
That must be an unfortunate by-product of the “moderated” setting in Moveable Type…
What I’d like to know is…how is it that legitimate commenters like you can’t leave a comment, while the “online.poker” “credit.cards.free!” and other *really annoying* spammers seem to be able to leave comments at a rate of about 1 a second?!
Just changed the settings. But if it happens again, email me…seriously!!