Tina Roth Eisenberg on Twitter:
Comments are not dead.
She’s right, of course. However, I don’t have comments on my blog for the following reasons.
- I do not want to manage them
- I’d much rather people respond via their own blog, Twitter or email
- I do not want to manage them
This topic will simply never go away though. So, rather than reiterate what I’ve already said I’ll simply link to all of the other times this topic has come up.
- 2007: One possible benefit from disabling comments.
- 2009: Regarding blog comments, again.
- 2012: More benefits of turning off comments.
If comments are not dead, surely blogs aren’t either, right?