Musing Mondays (April 13)

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about blog comments

How do you respond to the comments on your blog? Do you try to email individually or comment on post yourself answering the comments above? What do you think is the best way to respond to comments and do you respond to all of them? Do you feel slighted if you don't receive a response back from the blog owner? (question courtesy of Jenn)

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

 

Firstly, I think this is a really good question from Jenn – if for no other reason than I really never know what to do myself. Do I just reply to everything? Nothing? What?! I like to reply to things, but not really being sure how means that I reply to a lot less than I would otherwise.

For the most part I usually reply to several commenters on the one comment on the post, but I find that a little confusing sometimes. I prefer Blogger for most things, but I must say, I prefer the flow-chart-like commenting system of livejournal.

I have just realised, however, that I can hit reply on the comment notification emails I get and reply directly to the commenter, which I have done from time to time, especially if my response is a little longer, but I feel a little weird doing it. I love to get emails (so, please, feel free to reply to me this way if you feel inclined) but I wouldn’t want to intrude by emailing people who I don’t really know. What do you think? Do you like this mode?

As for getting responses to my own comments, I certainly don’t feel slighted if I don’t get one, however I’m so paranoid that I’ll miss something that I usually hit the subscribe email and then get even more emails (and trust me, sometimes there are heaps)…

So come on, answer the question and try to solve my issues. Thanks.