10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments
I don’t suppose this is all of the reasons folks choose not to comment. This is only a list of 10 +1 of them ....
- 1. What you write is so complete, that I don’t know what to say except good job. I feel silly writing that, so I read and move on.
- 2. You’ve taught me something I didn’t know, and I need to think about it before I even have a question. Much like number 1, I don’t want to embarrass myself. I’m better off moving on.
- 3. I get ready to type a comment, but I notice you only respond to a few friends who mostly share inside jokes. I won’t take the risk of being overlooked in public.
- 4. The folks who comment on your posts like to argue and I don’t. I’m not sure I’m brave enough to fight my way into the crowd.
- 5. You rarely respond to comments. So, there’s no point in writing one.
- 6. Your blog has geeky attitude and I’m not geeky enough to keep up.
- 7. I really like your blog and your post, but I’m too tired, busy, or any one of a number things that you can’t control. I’ll comment the next I come back to read.
- 8. You end your posts with a giant general question like “What do you think of the Big Bang Theory?” That question is such a big one. I don’t have time to answer it. I feel strange answering with a lesser comment.
- 9. You put up a fence by making me login to comment. I have too many passwords already and I don’t know you well enough to add one to my list.
- 10. Your content wasn’t fresh and exciting, and I couldn’t find anything YOU inside it. It seemed the same post that I’ve read on 10 other blogs. If I commented, I would have to tell you that.
- PLUS ONE: Your post was negative. Negative is scary. Most folks don’t like negative stuff, because they know they could be next to be the recipient. I don’t comment, because I don’t want to be part of it.
I think some folks are just shy, especially if reading the blog of a friend of a friend.
ReplyDeleteNo comment! Lol!
ReplyDeleteFor me it depends on what the person has said, some times I do not comment becuase I find what the person has said is so seriously stupid that I will just leave. Some times it is because the person is insulting when you do not agree with them and it is better to just move on away from them. Then there are times when you have a brain fart and can not come up with a response.
sometimes we don't know what to say...lol...but I comment even to say HI! ") Have a good one!
ReplyDeleteI believe that for everyone, all of the above have come into play at least once. I think many read blogs out of simple curiosity ... I know I do. Multiply is the only social site that I've ever visited that reveals who's visited your site. That in and of itself, will make many new visitors hesitant to even visit your home page, but I feel that with a visit, no one should be obligated to comment. It's not different than being together with a group of people. You have a few very engaged people, and there are those who are present and say nothing. Either way, it's all good, isn't it?
ReplyDeletei usually reply because the contacts i have reply to mine..........when i don't reply on a blog, its because i don't choose to start a fight on someone elses's blog..lol
ReplyDeleteNo comment! HA!
ReplyDeleteSince I came over here, I feel like I have to comment now! I don't normally comment on a stranger's page mainly because I don't know them (like you) and I'm surfing...back in the old days (360) there was no way to tell who had been on your page, so the pressure to comment wasn't there. One could lurk and consider a potential comment in the shadows. Multiply tells on you! I am on the shy side, and don't ever feel like I have much to add!
ReplyDeleteLots of folks nowadays think we come to social networks to watch reruns of news segments from talking-heads-shows few people even watch anyways. I am in dial-up hell. (AT&T thinks people in my subdivision are subhuman and don't need the same things that our sophisticated neighbors in nearby towns need so they see to their needs and not ours. Fewer people means fewer complaints to gubmunt folk, so they figure "let the bumpkins be damned.") A three-minute youbietubie takes about thirty minutes download time, so I really don't want to invest that much time to hear Nancy Piglowsy call some conservative a *@^%!. So, in those cases I have little choice but to move on.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying that you do this, I'm just commenting about video-blogs (and some people therewith have excluded huge portions of their friends by posting only or mostly tv out-takes and such). So when people post videos, they should put at least a precis for the dial-up-ly-challenged, so they won't have to leave frustrated and clueless.
I have a few contacts in my list who perceive themselves among the royalty of social network blogging. They write their lil' pontifications-from-the mountaintop-blogs whereon their fawning subjects come to pay Yasa-boss tribute, and those who peep so much as disagreement are summarily attacked by the (usually liberal) hoipolloi. So I just "Pffffttt" and move on.
ReplyDeleteThese prima dona bloggers are easily recognised because they have a contacts list, but never visit the pages of their "contacts." Rather, they perceive their "list" as merely the roster of their fanclub.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it is because we are not as imaginative as the original blog post!
ReplyDeleteI did like your Oregon coast pictures, but was left speechless again. My wife and I need a vacation so we can cruise the coast again.
I've often wondered this same thing. So read it. Liked it:)
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain (Dial up). I was restricted to dialup by the ONLY phone company allowed to serve my area until about 7 years ago. By that time much of the farm land between me and town had been filled with subdivisions (mostly McMansions) or farmettes (2-5 acre parcels) and then it became possible to get DSL. Thanks for your comments...and know i am aware of how dial-up alters the internet experience!
ReplyDeleteThis happens to me frequently as well...LOL
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS!
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