If you are a long time user of my site, or you have been reading an article that has this awkward asking for comments, and then nowhere to put them, you might have noticed that I have removed comments from my site.
So the question is, why have comments in the first place? And then, why go through the trouble to remove them later?
Many people will advocate that having comments available and encouraging readers to comment creates a 2 way engagement for a blog, and here I completely agree.
However, for the content that I am producing, I have found that often the comments are:
- Under utilized
- They can go way off topic and be awkward
- Sometimes add something but often add an out of content conversation to the end of an article
- Some people are just commenting to promote their own content (I can be found guilty of that myself).
- Full of ads and a terrible interface. Yes I am looking at you WordPress and Disqus.
Furthermore, I have found that this type of interaction has been more engaging and lively for both parties on YouTube, which is where I will continue to answer questions and respond to comments.
Here they are always in context with the video and they have a very good system that promotes useful or active comments and places them at the top.
Now, if you have enjoyed engaging with me via comments and want to continue, I would recommend the following. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube and if you have a question or want to just say you enjoyed watching it use a YouTube comment.
If you have a quick question or just want to say hi, follow me and send me a tweet on Twitter.
I promise I won’t bite.
And finally if you have something that can’t be said in a tweet, or you are interested in learning more about how we might work together, head on over to my contact page.
