Posted in Online by Bes on Jun 24, 2007
This can be an important question to ask in order to realize how you want to communicate with your blog readers and commentors. Do you prefer having no comments on your blog, instead of having a lot of disagreeing comments?
The Art Of Reacting To Criticizing Comments applies to comments of almost any kind. You may be running a personal blog, a business blog, or some other kind of a blog, and may have enabled comments for the different content you post online. However, people may be disagreeing with what you say on a regular basis. Many of the disagreeing comments you receive may be very informative, yet those comments may be disagreeing with everything you have to express through your blog, all the time.
Would you prefer having no comments instead of dealing with comments and commentors that only exist to disagree with you? Do you prefer having no comments compared to having comments that disagree with you?
AMA citation:
Zain B. Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?. The Reasoner. 2007. Available at: http://thereasoner.com/articles/online/question-do-you-prefer-no-blog-comments-over-disagreeing-comments. Accessed July 4, 2009.
APA citation:
Zain, Bes. (2007). Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?. Retrieved July 4, 2009, from The Reasoner Web site: http://thereasoner.com/articles/online/question-do-you-prefer-no-blog-comments-over-disagreeing-comments
Chicago citation:
Zain, Bes. 2007. Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?. The Reasoner. http://thereasoner.com/articles/online/question-do-you-prefer-no-blog-comments-over-disagreeing-comments (accessed July 4, 2009).
Harvard citation:
Zain, B 2007, Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?, The Reasoner. Retrieved July 4, 2009, from <http://thereasoner.com/articles/online/question-do-you-prefer-no-blog-comments-over-disagreeing-comments>
MLA citation:
Zain, Bes. "Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?." 24 Jun. 2007. The Reasoner. Accessed 4 Jul. 2009. <http://thereasoner.com/articles/online/question-do-you-prefer-no-blog-comments-over-disagreeing-comments>
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( June 24th, 2007 at 3:59 pm )
I think I’d rather have comments disagreeing with me rather than no comments, so I can see both sides, or maybe I can elaborate on my view even more just because of those comments. I think it’s useful either way, though, so I’d rather have comments than no comments.
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( June 25th, 2007 at 12:12 pm )
hmm.. lol, yeah I get that quite a bit.. but I rather hear an honest opinion from others and what they think… however, one doesn’t need to write “I totally disagree with you.. you are so ignorant” or somewhat along those lines.. because hey, its an opinion right?
PS: Cool live preview.. I use to have it, but it got weird =\ maybe I should put it up again.. hm. Is that a newer version? Haven’t been updated on these things for quite awhile…
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( June 25th, 2007 at 6:50 pm )
I’d rather have comments that disagree with me because they allow me to consider other possible options and also, I can be too narrow-minded sometimes so it’s a way of letting open-minded people to mold me into a better person…
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( June 26th, 2007 at 3:41 am )
I think it’s important in a way to have people disagree with you, because in the real world, no two people are exactly alike. And every single situation or thought, there are endless possibilities and perspectives, and it’s great to see different people’s thoughts.
No comments means, people are too lazy to offer a comment (which makes me feel that I’m not worthy), or they simply just have no opinion. But I believe everyone has some sort of thought about everything… in the most basic, whatever they read must flit through their mind and register on a “positive - yeah I like this” or “negative - no way, whatever” or even “neutral - yeah I see both sides”… I want to know what it is. God I’m making this little thing too serious and big lol.
(I don’t get live preview. I mean, I’m already reading all my text in this box… I can see everything fine from this box to the text below =P)
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( June 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pm )
SP, thanks for commenting. Yes, if someone disagrees, we can usually try to elaborate and explain things more if there is any kind of misunderstanding about something.
Vera, thanks for commenting too. Good point about hearing “honest” opinions from people. Yes, what people say is an opinion, if seen in that perspective.
About the cool live preview, this is the version I am using, and it is a newer version, yes:
Live Comment Preview V. 1.7
Casablanca Travel, that is a very good point, that a blogger can realize that they may be mistaken about something or not looking at things through different perspectives. I like your idea of being molded into a better person.
Jess, excellent point. Majority of the people, specially in relationships, do not realize that, and such people think “OMG! We’re having a disagreement, that means he/she is evil!” Differences allow for more analysis, and if someone always does the same thing and someone else has no opinion about it, well, it’s boring in my view.
Good point about everyone having some kind of an opinion, even the most basic one, about things they read or run across. No, that is what I wanted: a very serious analysis of this little thing, and you did it perfectly! I wanna hear more.
About the live preview, it’s like this: if you code your comment, like you want to make some text bold using the tag:
< strong > whales go meow < / strong >
You can do it:
whales go meow
and the preview will show the output, so you know whether or not your html coding in your comment is working. Try it if you can: make a comment link with the “a href” tags in your comment and mess up the code and the preview will allow you to see the out.
Does that make more sense?
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( August 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pm )
Disagreement is absolutely essential to any blog comments just as it is with regular conversation. Two caveats are: disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing and writing abusive comments because you disagree instead of explaining your viewpoint.
Common sense!
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( September 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm )
I agree with ST. Agree to disagree, make good points, keep away from derogatory comments and your blog discussion can be very very productive.
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( December 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pm )
the latter, definitely. the whole point is to have an interactive experience online, and people might tune in from time to time to watch the discussion unfold. you don’t want anything getting out of hand though. that may have the opposite effect!
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( January 19th, 2009 at 10:48 pm )
it’s like my dearly beloved says the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about at all
;D
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