By Nicolas Cardot
As I surf through the blogosphere, I continually see a trend toward bloggers desiring to see an increase in comments on their blogs. In some sense, these comments seem to provide a sense of validation to the authors.
I even had a blog author ask me if they should allow comments to be published even though they know for a fact that they are automated spam comments as long as they sound legitimate. This was their effort to make it appear as though a conversation was taking place. It was sort of the fake-it-til-you-make-it mindset, a mindset I very much abhor.
Of course, I don’t ever advocate pretending to have a conversation. Folks who act that way usually end up living with padded walls.
All of this because bloggers want comments. In fact, many bloggers measure the success... More...
