Leaving a comment on someone‘sweblog is like walking into their living room and joining in on a conversation. As in real life, online there are some people who are a pleasure to converse with, and some who are not.
Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged. Build your own online social capital and become a great blog commenter by keeping these simple guidelines in mind before you post. —Special: Lifehacker‘sguide to weblog comments (Lifehacker)
Great link, courtesy of Clancy Ratliff, via the KairosNews blogs mailing list.
I am interested by “Don’t post when you’re angry, upset, drunk or emotional.”
Don’t post when you’re emotional? Isn’t that rather extreme, for those of us who aren’t Vulcans, anyway? But maybe I should stop writing now, since I’m feeling a bit emotional about this.
Oh, tanj.
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Ironically, I've found that the blog entries that get the most comments are the ones that are posted when you're angry, upset, drunk, or emotional. When you post a nice, carefully reasoned entry, no one comments because they have nothing to add!
Yes, anything you send via e-mail might get published. But if, for example, I garbled the grammar of an entry on my blog, and you sent me a private e-mail informing me of my mistake, it's more polite than announcing my mistake to the whole world via a comment on my blog. (If I posted a link that didn't work, and you posted a correction, that's different -- you'd be helping my readers use the site, and I'd probably be grateful.)
An E-Mail private? If you type it anyone has a chance to see it. I believe I read that article on your site sir. While an E-mail has a chance of being more private it is no guarantee it will be.
Isn't that Heinlein?
Dennis -
TANSTAAFL. So just post the best you can.
(My other favorite Nivenism)