Q&A Friday #90: Do You Ever Leave Comments On Other Blogs?

by John Hawkins | June 6, 2008 11:43 am

Question: “Hawkins – Do you ever leave comments on other blogs? If so, do you use your own identity, or do you do so anonymously or with a pseudonym? If not, is just a question of not having time to do so?” — huckupchuck

Answer: I very seldom comment on my own blog or on other blogs for two reasons.

#1) I figure that the time spent working on a comment that will be read by a small subset of the people on the blog could be better spent working on a post that will be read by everyone on my blog.

#2) I’ve been blogging for so long that I’ve gotten a little numb to things said in the comments section.

* If someone insults me in the comments section on my own blog, 99 times out of 100, I just don’t care. If the insult is particularly egregious or inappropriate, I delete it and ban him. If someone insults me in the comments section of another blog, I don’t ever care.

* If another blog insults me, I’m usually content to ignore it, but if I do decide to respond, I want to do it on my own blog rather than in their comment section.

* If someone compliments me, I appreciate it, but I’m so swamped I don’t have time to give him/her a proper thank-you.

* If someone gets something wrong, I figure someone else will correct him/her.

* If I do see something worth responding to in a comments section, I’d rather try to work it into a blog post.

That being said, I will very occasionally comment on blogs, like on this post over at Alarming News[1] (Karol consulted with me on my latest column at Townhall and then wrote about the same subject).

As a general rule, I post under my own name. If I don’t, it’s almost always because the system automatically has me post as “anonymous” and I forgot to include it.

PS: I do have pseudonym accounts at places like Fark[2], Digg[3], and Free Republic[4], but I got those to submit stories, not to comment, and I seldom take the time to write anything besides a promo for a post on RWN.

Endnotes:
  1. Alarming News: http://www.alarmingnews.com/archives/007318.html#comments
  2. Fark: http://www.fark.com/
  3. Digg: http://digg.com/
  4. Free Republic: http://www.freerepublic.com

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