Blogger bloggers – please change your comment rules
I have tried to comment on several Blogger-based blogs now, including the interesting-sounding with pants comes dignity but I can’t, because they’re set up to only allow comments from other Blogger users.
I don’t want to set up a Blogger account just so I can post comments. Please, change your options over, unless you have a good reason why you only want s proportion of people who actually blog to comment on your site?
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May 14th, 2005 at 12:17 am
I’m not sure if Blogger bloggers can set that option. It could be one of Blogger’s schemes of attracting new users and possibly new bloggers.
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May 14th, 2005 at 12:23 am
Hmmm, you may be right, in which case I’ve done them a disservice. I am sure I’ve been to some blogspot sites where you can choose blogspot user, anonymous, or other named. Maybe depends when they signed up.
Thanks for the grats
May 14th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
I advocate high usability, as we all do unless we’re nuts, so I am concerned with this concern.
However, I think people are missing the “Anonymous” posting option offered quite clearly by Blogger.
I’m no expert on Blogger, and I have a bundle of my own questions, but it rates about 90% usability, which is extraordinary and exemplary.
Only a half dozen or so times within a year, has it been when Blogger was done for engineering trouble-shooting or maintence, and I couldn’t post anything new, or access post to edit.
The lightning speed at which a blog is creatable with Blogger is astounding. Fast simpicity.
But blogs are more about comments than they are about linking, though they did begin as links logs with few or no comments, when user commenting became a form more simple, and faster, than email, the Next Wave (2nd Wave of the Blog Revolution) was launched.
Comments must be as open as possible.
Captchas, registration, login, have their applications, too.
I sometimes must pass through a captcha at Blogger when I attempt to edit and republish a post.
I mean I have to correctly type in the letters or numbers I see in a box with an erratic, bot-unfriendly, optically subversive background, to gain authorization as a human, and not a string of code.
So bots are invading Blogger and trying to edit, probably erase, all our posts and blogs?
Back up.
Print out.
Think.
Leopold the Told
of BLOG CORE VALUES
July 18th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Have to agree with you on this. There is inherent value in having people comment on your blog as it can effectively freshen posts. Some blogger users do not allow anything but a user with a blogger account to comment. I don’t want to have to sign up with blogger just to comment on your site. And you also lose the value of having a link back to your site, it liks to your blogger profile.