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Do You Comment On Blogger Blogs?

Posted by sitefever • 9/02/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogger, comment, sitefever

I guess you can call this a curiosity poll. Here's the question:

Do you comment on Blogger blogs when you have to sign into an account in order to do so?

It's in follow-up of a recent post: sitefever.com/blogger-users-what-are-you-thinking/

I am curious to see what everyone has to say.

User Comments

9/02/07

crpitt

Yes because i have one

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9/02/07

rileycentral

crpitt . . . I commented on yours today. BUT . . . I truly find blogger comments entry needlessly uncomfortable. Go Wordpress! That's what i always preach.

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1. 9/02/07
  
  crpitt
  
  I agree but i cant be bothered converting to wordpress yet!
2. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  "Uncomfortable?"
  
  You mean they're not padded, or what?
  
  Bad decor?
  
  No kidding: I'm really curious.
9/02/07

purdles

It's annoying to have to log in and/or create an account. I don't like anon comments, but I welcome them just the same. Mine are for anyone to comment.

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1. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  Your "Really, Really, Broke Entrepreneurs" is open for comment by anyone, even people who don't have a Blogger account - your " Drive Thru Only" has a more restrictive setting for comments.
  
  Both are on Blogger, so - whaddaya know! Blogger does allow non-Bloggerites to comment on Blogger blogs. Blogishly speaking, that is.
2. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  Oh, yeah: I made an "anonymous" comment on your Really Really blog, just to be sure that anonymous comments would work.
  
  Sorry about using your blog as a test case - and feel free to delete it, of course!
9/02/07

monkeytale

I have my blogger blog comments set to anyone can comment. I'm more than likely not going to comment on blogs where you have to join/register to comment myself.

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1. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  Bingo. Which is why I chose "Anyone."
  
  I like Blogger well enough, but not so much as to force people to create an account, before they comment.
9/02/07

Norski

"Do you comment on Blogger blogs when you have to sign into an account in order to do so?"

Blogger has three options for bloggers, regarding who can make comments:

Anyone
Only Registered Users
Only Members of this Blog

I've chosen to let "Anyone" comment, but that was my choice.
I've no idea why a blogger would choose "Only Registered Users," but I suppose there are reasons.

And, yes, I comment of Blogger blogs, and any other blog whose user allows it: provided I've got something to say.

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1. 4/10/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  Me, too.
9/02/07

ChampDog

Blogger is good but they have 2 weakness.

1) No email notification to the commenter (not the author). I personally like to be notified when someone reply to the post.

2) Not able to reply to a comment. Can it? Or I'm not aware of the feature?

Hope it is making sense.

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1. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  I have chosen to have Blogger notify me by email, and do get email notifications. It's a very handy service. (From the Dashboard, Settings > Comments > Comment Notification Address - and you provide the email address you want notifications sent to.)
  
  Strictly speaking, Blogger does not have a 'reply to comment' feature. At least, not that I'm aware of. However, it is quite possible to add a comment, the leading word of which is the name, or identifying word or phrase, of the commenter.
2. 9/02/07
  
  ChampDog
  
  I meant notify feature for the person who commented the post not the author.
9/02/07

fancysora

YES ,always
you can also visit my blog:http://www.fancyshow.com/blog

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9/02/07

ender

if i *have* to sign in with my blogger/google account (which is NOT my prime blog) ... then i really really really really really want to leave a comment.

so i will ... but rarely. i think melissa scott's blog is one of the few i do that for.

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1. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  I get the impression, from much of this discussion, that quite a few bloggers who use Blogger choose, for whatever reason, to use the Only Registered Users option for comments.
  
  Apparently I've missed those blogs up to now.
  
  Here's a question: why would people choose to restrict people from commenting to only those who used the same host service?
  
  It is a choice: Blogger does not, really, make people sign up with a Blogger account to make comments on one of their client's blogs.
  
  It's a choice made by the individual client.
  
  Again: Why??
9/02/07

sitefever

Thanks for the replies so far... I have honestly gotten to the point where if I notice I'm on a blogger blog I don't get too comfortable there because I know something is going to come up that will really be a pain.

Another thing with commenting... what's up with someone being on your blog, clicking the option to leave a comment, being redirected to another domain, having a SSL notification popup, leaving a comment, then having to be redirected back to where you came from. Dont you think its all a little too extreme?

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1. 9/02/07
  
  Norski
  
  "... SSL notification popup, leaving a comment, then having to be redirected back to where you came from. Dont you think its all a little too extreme?"
  
  Actually, no.
  
  But then, I'm pretty flexible when it comes to using interfaces. At supermarket checkouts, I don't even mind showing a photo ID. Go figure.
  
  One reason I don't mind the multi-step process is that I've had spam problems with a guestbook (still closed) and email that resulted from having services that were more 'friendly.'
2. 4/10/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  THAT annoys me, yes. I may still comment on those, however.
9/02/07

Norski

"I know something is going to come up that will really be a pain."

Is that the content? Are all people who use Blogger inferior to those who do not?

Or is it the Blogger templates?

Or something else?

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9/02/07

shaedove99

Yes I do... If I don't feel like logging in I comment Anonymously & type my name on the end. It really doesn't make a diff.

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9/02/07

clioandme

If I have to sign in with my Blogger account I am somewhat irritated, but I'll comment. That restricts the range of subject matter I'll comment on though.

I have also found myself getting irritated by word verification.

All I do now on my own Blogger blogs is turn on comment moderation.

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1. 9/15/07
  
  suburbqueen
  
  I don't like the word verification either. Sometimes, I'm not even able to see the letters...thus can't comment : (
9/02/07

SteepingBeauty

I do leave comments on blogger blogs because I have one but I have left other sites where I had to register to comment.

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9/02/07

PetLvr

It's not that you need a blogger account anymore ... you just sign in with your GMAIL account and, you'd got to be nuts NOT to have a Gmail account with 2.8GIG of free backup server space to email and store your blog MySQL databases to ..

Thus, I sign in and comment if the urge is there. If there is a complicated "type what you see" verification code, I "X" out the comments and leave. If there is a simple verification (like what's 2+2, or color of the yellow pages) then I would continue and answer.

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9/15/07

Slevi

Nope, if logging into to my google account is a must to reply I don't. I kinda hate the fact that blogger made it possible for commenting to be locked so out of the public that as response to that I simply don't reply.

Doesn't count only for blogger for that matter, all other blogs which require some form of registration or logging in before commenting is where I don't respond.

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1. 9/15/07
  
  Norski
  
  Blogger allows the practice, but it does not require it.
  
  Individual persons using the Blogger service choose, for reasons which I don't understand, to restrict comments.
  
  I do not "blame" them, but if the practice of restricting comments is something worthy of condemnation, let's put the "blame" where it belongs: on those who chose, freely, to restrict their own blog's comments.
9/15/07

CreativeBlogger

I have an acct but also, anyone can comment on my blogs,a cct or not.

Meanwhile I would not open an account just so I could comment.

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9/15/07

Parabunny

Hardly anyone turns on the "to only those with Blogger accounts" option. Even us "Bloggers" want as many comments as we can get.

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9/15/07

bsd13

No. I don't mind having to leave my "name" and email, but I've stopped commenting on them altogether for the fact that when you leave your url it goes to a page not found 404 error each time.

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9/15/07

techfun

I have an account but I don't want a link to my blogger blog instead of my Wordpress blog so I constantly need to pick the "Other" choice and fill that all in.

I also hate the pop-up factor. But I don't let that stop me if I really want to comment.

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9/15/07

Serenacyh

I comment. I like Bloggers.

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9/15/07

CallCenterVet

No prob on this one... olympicblogger.blogspot.com/

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9/15/07

Norski

I'm back, from 12 days ago in this thread.

An assumption seems to be that Blogger makes people have accounts, in order to comment of blogs hosted by Blogger.

Hoo ha, that's a lot of bloggish words in one sentence.

The discussion starter was "Do you comment on Blogger blogs when you have to sign into an account in order to do so?"

People who use Blogger can chose to have comments open to anyone, open only to people who have Blogger accounts, or open only to people who belong to the blog in question - the latter being for multi-user blogs, I assume.

So, in fact Blogger doesn't make the only-Blogger-user-comments decision, the individual blogger does.

Quoting myself, to get this information down where it's likely to be read:

"Blogger has three options for bloggers, regarding who can make comments:

"Anyone
Only Registered Users
Only Members of this Blog

"I've chosen to let "Anyone" comment, but that was my choice.

"I've no idea why a blogger would choose "Only Registered Users," but I suppose there are reasons.

"And, yes, I comment of Blogger blogs, and any other blog whose user allows it: provided I've got something to say."

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9/15/07

dinblog

To be honest,it was a bit of a pain to log in and add comments.But I'm getting over it!After all isn't the blogosphere meant to be one large global family.How can we interact if we don't communicate with each other?

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1. 9/15/07
  
  Norski
  
  I'd suggest that you communicate through the blog's comments, if nothing else, and tell the person or people who run the blog that you'd prefer that they open their blog to all visitors: not just those with a Blogger account.
  
  It's the blog author's decision to limit comments. Blogger provides the option, but doesn't force it.
  
  (My blogs are open-to-all, for comments, BTW.)
4/10/08

iremod

No, as a rule I do not comment on blogger blogs. In fact when writing an article on one of my own blogs I go out of my way NOT to reference any articles from Blogger blogs.

Switch to Wordpress or Drupal or Joomla. Get out from under the heavy hand of the Google.

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1. 4/10/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  That's a shame, given there are so many Blogger blogs with great material that would thus be overlooked completely because of that philosophy.
2. 4/10/08
  
  clioandme
  
  It's a shame for iremod too, and unnecessarily self-limiting. Blogger has overcome its earlier goofs and offers plenty of options, if the blogger in question enables them.
4/10/08

offendedblogger

Funny, I find it highly annoying that everytime I go to comment on a new non-blogger blog I find, I have to type in my name, email addy and url.

I don't not comment because of it, though.

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1. 4/10/08
  
  mawbooks
  
  I created a blogger account so I could comment because it seems all the bloggers in my niche uses blogger. But I still choose to type in my name, email and website on blogger so clickbacks will go directly to my blog instead of my blogger profile. It eliminates a click to get to my blog.
4/10/08

clioandme

I don't like it when people force me to use the character recognition thingy or demand a login. The first interferes with my laziness, and the second does too. Most of the time I'm happy to identify myself and leave a URL, but I want some choice in which one I use. I still use the character thingy though, because I respect their right to avoid spam or be paranoid.

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1. 4/10/08
  
  bnsullivan
  
  I did not have word verification on my blogger blogs at first, but I began getting scads of automated (and sometimes scurrilous) comments. So, I had to decide between comment moderation and word verification. Word verification is far less trouble for me, the blog owner, so that's what I'm using now.
4/10/08

dotartdude

I'm a Blogger user.

If I feel I have something to add, then I will comment on a post, no matter what the blog platform.

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4/10/08

BlogBadly

Generally, no.

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4/10/08

wehireu

I am a member of blogger so it really doesn't matter.

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4/10/08

shaney

Sure I do, all the time! I always have something to say...lol
OK seriously, comments let you know people have been touched in some way whether it be in a good, not so good or neutral sense. They allow interaction. I have grown close to quite a few who have commented on my blog & will always leave my stamp on their blog too. *winks*
As for platforms, I find wordpress is no better than blogger and like the fact that anonymous readers can contribute without the hassle of having to sign in.

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4/10/08

Donlewis

Never! It just doesn't do to mix with the lower classes.

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4/10/08

Shiley

My blogger is set to anyone. If I really feel the need to say something then I do. I had a problem w/ a comment I left though because my email was required at a site I started to get harassing emails about going to the site. So, if ya get nasty you're deleted.

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4/10/08

BlogBadly

The thing that annoys me is that you have to go through a popup window.

That just kills the whole process right there.

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4/10/08

offendedblogger

Everyone who hates Blogger comments will hopefully LOVE my new comment thing on MY Blogger blog.

www.offendedblogger.com

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1. 4/10/08
  
  Shiley
  
  I like!