Some interesting revelations from Dave here regarding comments.
As you climb a tree, the higher you go, more people want to throw stuff at you, pretty soon all you get is the junk. It usually seems to happen in Year 2 if the blog is growing. Before that they say things like “It’s not a blog if it doesn’t have comments.” Then they start appreciating why it’s actually more fun and interesting (and liberating) to write without having a critics section stinking up your living room.
So let me see if I understand this… it’s more fun to talk when nobody is around to disagree with you? And when you have to expressly give their opinion’s airtime? So you’d probably only talk about the ones that don’t make any valid points. Or ones which you can easily refute. I guess with the number of people around salivating over everything Dave writes, he has the luxury of pretending that those are the only people in the world.
For one thing, when I point to a post that has comments then basically I have comments. For whatever reason, people seem to be more polite when posting in someone else’s space (as opposed to my space).
So he doesn’t want people mucking up his space, but he doesn’t mind sending them other places to muck with other people’s living rooms. How nice of him.
And, of course…
Basically mail lists are conversations. Blogs are something different. In fact I think blogs with comments aren’t really blogs.
I love how he thinks that he can just, at his own discretion, define what a blog is or is not. As though he’s some sort of authority on the matter.
…and blogs aren’t conversations? Looks like it’s time for a Cluetrain Manifesto for Blogs.