Commenting on Other Blogs

Fri, 7 September, 2007 – 12:42 pm

We all like to offer our opinion. It's human nature ;) However the more blogs you read, the more comments you make, and then the inevitable happens - the more chance you have of losing track of where you've left a comment!

I'm not one for making a comment and then ignoring any response it gets. I believe than a blog owner should try to ensure they at least acknowledge comments left by their visitors, and if the visitor's comment requires a response then the owner should give it one. So hoping and presuming that a blog owner will perhaps reply to my comment I do try to ensure I return to that particular post to check on the comments.

For the blogs I comment on frequently, I subscribe to the comment feed as well. Even if it's not advertised, if it's a WordPress site you can simply go to http://www.domain.com/comments/rss2/ and the comments feed should show up. This way you can track all the comments made, afterall whilst the post may not have sparked a comment from you, another person's comment or question may well do.

However I am starting to find that I'm losing track of posts I comment on. I've added a few new blogs to my reading list and whilst I may not comment often I still make the occassional comment. I guess I could add any post I comment on to Del.icio.us and then revisit them during the week. That's one option. I could always just bookmark them in a commented folder on my browser too. I have done this in the past with one or two.

So how do you remember where you've commented? Or do you really care?!

  1. 10 Responses to “Commenting on Other Blogs”

  2. I use co.mments.com to keep track of my comments and their replies through RSS. I blogged about different available services to track blog comments a while ago.

    By Andreas Gohr on Sep 7, 2007

  3. If I can I add the comment rss feed into netvibes where I have a dedicated "Comments" tab. Sometimes it's difficult though as trying to be part of the discussion on one blog/forum can be different mind set on another…. If that makes sense. Sounded right in my head lol

    By Si Philp on Sep 7, 2007

  4. I don't keep track unless I regularly return to that blog or they have a subscribe to comments plugin installed. I use this one:

    http://txfx.net/code/wordpress.....-comments/

    By sara on Sep 7, 2007

  5. Thanks for the comments guys.

    Andreas, I've never heard of co.mments.com so I'll have to have a look at that plus check out your post :)

    Si, I know what you mean, I do subscribe to a few comment feeds but when some have 20 comments you can really get lost!

    Sara, I often see the subscribe to comments option however I always untick it as I can find myself receiving an email months down the line, and haven't worked out how to unsubscribe from the comments!

    By Sarah on Sep 7, 2007

  6. However I've now added the Subscribe to Comments via Email, for anyone that so wishes to use it ;)
    PS. Thanks to 'David' (whoever that may be!) for letting me know that the notify box was out of line in Firefox. Should all be fixed now :)

    By Sarah on Sep 7, 2007

  7. Yay, I'm glad. it makes it easier to remember for me. Most emails that are sent out that use that plugin have the following at the bottom:

    To manage your subscriptions or to block all notifications from this site, click the link below:

    with a link to unsubscribe if you want.

    By sara on Sep 8, 2007

  8. Yes I see the Manage Subscriptions link now! I guess I never saw it before so didn't realise it was there (or maybe not, depends on the plugin too I guess).

    However it's there now so hope it's of use to you and others :)

    By Sarah on Sep 8, 2007

  9. I'll say it really depends on what comment I posted.

    For example, if it was just "Great post, I like it." then it would be pointless to keep track of.

    However if it was something that might be worthy of a response like "No, I don't think anyone should get a Mac cos it sucks." then yeah. I'll probably check back.

    I notice that you have this "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail". I suppose that's the one Sara posted? :)

    I think I'm going to install it soon, after WP's latest patch that is.

    By goldfries on Sep 9, 2007

  10. Oh definitely, there's no point checking back if you've just paid someone a compliment, although I tend to only comment if I've got something more to say than that (I'm not saying that's bad just posting that though ;) )

    I just have the problem where I know I've maybe commented somewhere, but can't remember on what post or what I said!

    And yes the Notify plugin was as per Sara's suggestion. Shame I can't simply see the subscriptions for every post on one page. I may have to write a little PHP hack for that ;)

    By Sarah on Sep 9, 2007

  11. Oh no forget that, I just didn't look at things properly first time around and can see the Manage Subscriptions page tells me everything :D *blonde*

    By Sarah on Sep 9, 2007

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