Should blogs have comments?
It is a question that comes up fairly regularly in blogging circles and one that different bloggers take different approaches to.
- Most bloggers have them – they’re on by default when they set their blog up and they never switch them off. They see the comments as adding a lot to the blog – making it a place of shared learning, interactivity and dynamic conversation.
- Other bloggers decide not to have them. Their reasons vary from not having time to moderate them to being frustrated by comment spam.
Between these views other bloggers take a variety of other approaches ranging from:
- having comments on some posts but not others
- switching comments off over a certain amount of time (to protect from comment spam)
- to not having comments in the early days of a blog and switching them on later once there is a big enough audience to justify them (this is what I did on DPS).
- to requiring membership for comments (thereby effectively switching them off to the general public and reserving the privilege to comment for those willing to sign up).
There are many options – but I thought it’d be interesting to open it up for some discussion.
- Do you have comments on your blog? Why or Why Not?
- Do you think a blog is a blog without comments?
- What are the advantages of having or not having them?
Interested to see where this discussion leads us.
Further Reading on Comments on Blogs:
About Darren Rowse
My name is Darren Rowse and I’m a full time Blogger making a living from blogs like 
inorder to have the positive feedback from readers, comments are important
I view blog comments as a “Letters to the Editor” type forum that clearly encourages interactive communication from a relevant audience. The key is to act like a news editor and carefully review each comment for content, grammar and spelling before publishing.
Yes, i have comments in my blog. And to protect blog from spam i’d insalled plugin akismet and capcha.
Blog without comments is not blog ;) . IMHO.
P.S. Excuse me for my English.
Blogs are an extension of one self and if you are maintaining a personal blog, then the posts are not probably not going to appeal to millions around the world. yet, there should be an option for people to share their opinions, I mean isnt a dialogue, learning new things, ideas, and mental stimulation good for us all?
comment is the easy ways to create large networking……
Comments are a must for any blog, How else are you going to to get feedback from the people that are actually reading your blog! Right now I am actually trying to get a blog started for my site! Good topic i think anyone that has a blog should read this for sure…..