Expanding comments
October 17th, 2006 at 8:54 am by firebrunette (Main Page)
I am going to expand on what Laura had to say on comments yesterday. You can read her post here.
From Laura’s blog I followed a link to a UKnitters blogring site. Of course I got completely sucked in! What I noticed is that the UKnitters are all commenting. I mean, COMMENTING. Some posts have just over a dozen comments, others have in the 20-30 range. Almost every blog on the ring! Well, as far as I went before deciding to post here.
I just wonder why we Americans are lurkers. Is it a dirty little secret that we blog? Is it a dirty little secret that we like to be nosy and read about other people’s lives that connect with ours through knitting? I thought the whole purpose of blogging was to have contact out here in big ol’ bad cyberspace. Well I for one have taken to commenting frequently on others’ blogs in hopes that it will be reciprocated.
Comments don’t have to be fancy & perfect. Just a ‘hi, nice half assed sock’ would be nice. I think one of the killers for comments is bloglines, newsgator, rss subscription feeds in general. We all read the digest of posts & move on with our day. We, as users of these wonderful internet inventions, miss the gritty detail of the posts. The background color, the sometimes garrish buttons & links on the side, the little details that make a blog a blog. Especially knitting blogs.
I say we rise up & become more like our UKnitters friends & make ourselves be heard!
Who’s with me??
nooone?
fine.
Anonymous said,
October 17th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Hey there! I’ll comment!
I actually just found your blog while searching for a SB-based knitting/crochet group. You’ve got some great projects! (cool socks!) I am a crocheter myself, but I’d love to learn to knit someday as well.
Do you know of any groups that meet in SB? I may start one if there isn’t one!!
Anonymous said,
October 17th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
I’m in the UK Knitters webring but I don’t get that many comments. But that is because I am guilty of being a lurker myself. I tend to think that if lots of people have already said “Hey, nice part of a sock!” then I don’t need to say it too. But I am trying to do better, I promise.
See… I commented here, didn’t I?
Anonymous said,
October 17th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I didn’t even know you were a lurker Hazel! Thanks for outing yourself! I hit a group of knit bloggers on the uknitters ring that must be amazingly popular & prolific then! I totally hear you on not wanting to leave a comment when so many others have been left. I will admit to a loose rule I have of not leaving a comment if there are 20+ comments that are all the same. Then again, if I had a post that got more than 20 comments I would be on pins & needles waiting for more to come in.
Alas, the quandry of comments.
Anonymous said,
October 18th, 2006 at 1:08 am
I’m down with commenting. And for the record, I really don’t think Chauntel knits “half assed socks”.
-Melissa
Anonymous said,
October 18th, 2006 at 2:16 am
Hi! I’m commenting! Heehee!
Anonymous said,
October 18th, 2006 at 7:30 am
Amen!
You may be right about the bloglines thing. I subscribe to about 150 blogs, and it’s hard to comment on them all. I read on someone’s post last week that they subscribe to 700! I could never handle that. Anyway, it is about community and making connections with other people, that can’t be done without communitcation. So rise up and comment!
Anonymous said,
October 18th, 2006 at 10:31 am
*waves* I wandered on over here from the comment you left on my blog. I tend to lurk on blogs with higher comment levels because I feel like I’m repeating 150 other people..
I read a LOT of blogs and I am trying to comment more. It gets to the point where blogging becomes a lot of “work” though.. reading, writing your own posts, responding to comments ( I do it via email), that sometimes my commenting gets left in the dust.
Anonymous said,
October 18th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
I knew there was a reason I like you Melissa! Thanks!