Comments on: Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?

By: Plus Size Gowns

Plus Size Gowns — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:32:51 +0000

I agree with ST. Agree to disagree, make good points, keep away from derogatory comments and your blog discussion can be very very productive.

By: Speeding Ticket

Speeding Ticket — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:22:46 +0000

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!

By: Don’t Disagree With Me. Ever. » Reader Appreciation Project

Don’t Disagree With Me. Ever. » Reader Appreciation Project — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:05:40 +0000

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By: Bes

Bes — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:58:29 +0000

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?

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:41:30 +0000

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)

By: Casablanca Travel

Casablanca Travel — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:50:46 +0000

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…

By: Vera

Vera — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:12:45 +0000

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…

By: Simply Precious

Simply Precious — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:59:08 +0000

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.