top 10 reasons why i won’t comment on your blog
10. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
9. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
8. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
7. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
6. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
5. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
4. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
3. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
2. You require me to register to leave a comment on your blog.
And the number one reason….
1. Did I mention that I don’t like being forced to register to comment on your blog?
I came across this post today while Stumbling: Top 10 Sites That Will Pay You To Blog!
I noticed right off the bat that the site that’s made me the most money, PayPerPost, wasn’t represented on this list. I also noticed the blogger’s invitation to comment and let him (?) know about any sites he missed.
(Side note: This blog is written by “admin”, which you may recall is another of my pet peeves.)
I would LOVE to post a comment and tell you about PayPerPost, but I refuse to register on your blog to leave a single comment. I don’t need another user name and password combination to remember. By forcing your visitors to log in and leave a comment, you run the risk of running your visitors off. I’d guess that probably only 10% of all visitors would register to comment, and most, like me, would simply leave your blog and not return.
If you’re afraid of getting comment spam, I recommend moderating all first time comments, or all comments for that matter, and using Akismet to catch suspected spam. It’ll require a little more work on your part, but less on the part of your readers. If you want to capture and engage people, you need to make leaving a comment as simple as possible.
For the record, I didn’t post this entry to call out the blogger, because I do think that this blog has GOOD content. It’s a shame that the required registration for comments is chasing people like me away. If you’re requiring visitors to register to comment on your blog, step back and think about it - you may just find that your readership increases by changing this simple thing.
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Icky registration blogs. While I understand how it helps with useless crappy spam and makes management easier, its just not encouraging to readers at all. I’m so with you on this one, if I have to register I don’t comment.
How am I supposed to keep track of where I registered and where I haven’t, pain in the behind. Sure you get an email but I don’t want to have to refer to my email every time I want to comment some place to see if I’m registered already or not.
OH! I hate that too..forget it, not wasting my time to register just so I can leave a comment
I am appalled at what you wrote about my blog, how dare you… nah just kidding..lol
You have made some good points. I have now removed having to register to comment. I already have a spam catcher in place to catch spammers.
I will also change the admin to my name..Joe from now on.
So now you have no reason not to post on my blog Colleen I expect to see you there soon.
When I first started my blog, the default setting for comments was set to have registrations. I received zero comments up until I took that requirement off. Now my comments are up and thanks to the Askimet wordpress plug-in, I do not have to worry about comment spam as much. I wish everyone allowed comments without registering.
Yeah, this is a very important fact about blogging. NOBODY wants to hassle with registering just to leave a comment.
At the same time, I confess this: Those of us who blog need to get the word out there in better fashion. I’ve set up numerous WordPress blogs but, DUH, for some reason never realized until just a couple of months ago that I had checked the box in “Options” under WordPress which was requiring users to register before they could comment.
Once I realized what I had done, I quickly changed it. But the problem often is more ignorance or carelessness by the blog owner than anything else.
Exactly! That’s why I don’t comment on a lot of blogs these days.
And BOOM! I commented.
LOL! Too funny! I too have given up on some for just that reason. I don’t get it. All it does is frustrate your users!
Amen to that! Mahalo, thank you, gracias, merci for reminding folks that we want to visit, but they need to meet us halfway!
I’ve got nothing original to say, but I felt obligated to comment.
I hear ya. I HATE HATE HATE being forced to register for comments. Don’t people realize that this drives readers away faster than anything?
If only, if only…if only…everyone felt the way you did! I love commenting, and commenting is so good for everyone, but those pesky registration requests always stop me cold in my tracks. Not only that, I usually don’t bother to go back to those blogs. Good point! Hope a lot more people read this one!
The reason why I do it on my blog is because I do support for a number of open source projects on line and, for some strange reason, folks keep thinking that my blog is a support forums.
Over and over again I’ve had to deal with folks who leave a comment on my blog trying to get help but yet don’t leave a working email address or url or anything. Without that information, there’s no real way to contact those folks. Then begins further comments from them telling me what they think of me for not answering them, not helping them, nasty posts and comments about me elsewhere telling everybody within shouting distance how unwilling I was to help them, etc.
All this because they didn’t leave a working email address.
Having my sites set to registration prevents that.
What wordpress, moveable type and the others really needs is a comment plugin that will send an email to confirm that the comment was left by someone who left a working email address.