I have yet to understand why some bloggers want their readers to go through a registering process to leave a comment on their blog. Someone enlighten me. There are better ways to control spam comments. And worse of all, by making it hard for those of us who read and like to comment to make a comment, you are missing out on the continued conversation which could be taking place on your blog.
I was directed to an interesting blog this morning called, Smallbiztechnology.com. I wanted to leave a comment on what I thought was a pretty darn good blog post called, “What do home based professionals really do? What should you be doing. I was required to go through a pain in the butt registering process and quite frankly, I gave up.
Too bad. I won’t give up on this blog as it has some great content. But, how many people out there would like to comment on this blog and give up? I plan to subscribe to follow the relevant content that is being posted. However, I would really like to add my comments to post without being required to go through such an awful registering process.
Categories: Blogging, Home Office
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I get really frustrated by this, too. I feel like I have enough passwords to remember as it is, I don’t want to have to log in somewhere extra just to be able to leave a comment . . . even if I really want to be part of the conversation.
Well, OK, so your post persuaded me to reconsider requiring users to register/login before commenting.
My thinking was that I’m building a community, and I want to be able to communicate with my comment authors directly… and to avoid spam comments.
Time will tell…
Thanks for the insights
Oh my god, yes. That makes me completely insane. Insane, insane, insane. I can almost deal with Blogger blogs asking for a login. I can almost deal with TypePad captcha. But registering makes me absolutely nutto. There is no blog I’ve read so far that’s good enough to make me go out of my way to register, read the TOS, create a login, think of a password, remember that password, and so on. I have a hard enough time with my gmail password and my WordPress admin, and those are vital to my business!