Scott Esdaile

Do people leave comments on blogs anymore? Or have readers moved on?

Only a few years back, you’d read a blog post and if you liked it, or had something to contribute, you’d leave a comment.

But now, if you like it, you’ll share it – with the comments and conversation continuing outside the original blog via the likes of Twitter, Google Reader and Facebook (which is particularly being driven by their recent global ‘like’ button).

It also doesn’t help that many blog comments are fully-moderated as a defence against the incessant, daily spam – which unfortunately, also stifles real-time visitor discussions after reading an article. Although when blogs are left open, they can often deteriorate into snarky anonymous comments and link-bait anyway.

Too often, we judge the quality of an article on the number of comments it generates, but that’s not really valid anymore is it?

I’d ask you to add your thoughts by leaving a comment, but well, I’ll just be happy if I’ve prompted a discussion on this in any arena. And that’s all for my commentary.

{First published on BCM’s Two Cents blog}