Maybe its just me, but generally, when I feel the need to respond to someones post, I respond in the comments section. Crazy... I know. It would be silly to respond to a post in a completely different thread, blog, article, whatever. In general, comments are meant to comment on the current topic. By posting these comments in other locations, the poster does the reader a disservice. Let me explain. Reader Alice comes along and finds an article. Alice reads the article and has comments but there is currently no comments, no discussion, and no reason to post her own comments. Reader Bob finds comments about the article on a different site but the article is not there. Bob must follow a wild goose chases of hyperlinks trying to find the original article in order to intelligently comment on it.
In other words, silly people should be taught to post comments about other peoples articles, in the place where they belong. The comments.
2 comments:
HUH?
I am surprised that this response didn't make it to full fledged "post status" on your blog.
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