It annoys me when people blog and do one (or both) of these things: close comments, or leave comments open but don’t respond to any of them. It’s haughty, and it makes me laugh at you.
I mean, I know we are all busy. I work two jobs, do freelance web design, run a not-for-profit, and work with my aunt on stuff for her business. I also attempt to have a life and spend time with my friends, family, and boyfriend. Sometimes, I even sleep. I totally get it if you would rather sleep than respond to my comment. Sometimes, I would rather sleep than respond to comments. But what, pray tell, is the point in blogging if you’re not going to interact with any of your cult followers readers? If someone takes the time to leave a comment on your blog and interact with you, you’d better be damn sure that you at least reply and say thanks.
And the people who completely close off comments? You just make no damn sense. Do you enjoy talking to yourselves? Because that’s basically what you are doing.
I can’t stand people who are so arrogant that they do these things. So what if you get over a hundred comments or are a published author? So freaking what? Come back to Earth, you clowns.
I agree. The nice thing about blogging is the interactive community feel, and replying to comments is one part of that.
@Avitable: Exactly. It’s the community part of it that I love the most. If you don’t participate in that community, you’re a monkey.
I especially feel violated when I get to the end of a post and the comments are closed. Unless it’s one of those times when someone is hurting and they’ve just posted to vent…
@Faiqa: If it’s a venting post, then I can sort of understand. I can’t stand it when you read a great post, but can’t comment. It totally makes me feel violated.
I also agree, and I agree with Faiqa. I mean I can see about being deeply hurt about something, posting and closing the comments because you’re afraid to hear what people may have to say but you needed to get it out anyway. But for the posts that are just like…regular posts…with closed comments? Ya that bites. I appreciate even a “Thanks for the responses guys, I’m reading but too busy to reply right now”. Ya know?
@Sarcastica: Exactly! Show me you’re human! We’re all busy and it’s understandable when we can’t respond to each and every comment (especially those comments that don’t actually say anything).
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