I’m not much of an article writer, especially on opinions, although I did do one a while ago about my iPhone, and there are some rangom things on here. But the majority of stuff I post is intended as a record of things I’ve learnde which may help me again in future, or hopefully benefit others who come across the same development issues. With that said, here I go anyway:
I used my friend Google to search for ‘define:Weblog’. Here’s a selection of the results:
A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary …
A website in the form of an ongoing journal; a blog
a website which contains posts or short dated entries in reverse chronological order.
Not once is it mentioned that a blog is for other people to commment on. And I believe they shouldn’t be. At least not directly.
If you’re writing a blog it’s basically a journal, whatever the subject matter, just one that anyone with access to an internet connection can read. If it was your journal, offline, would you be letting people write their comments on it?
If you want to discuss a topic of your chosing you’d use a forum. The Google results for ‘define:Forum’?
a public meeting or assembly for open discussion
A forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system.
If you want a good discussion on any matter, why not use a forum.
If you don’t want this so-called back-patting ‘designer clique’, disable comments on your blog. Sure it won’t stop it totally, but at least you won’t be encouraging it.
People can pat backs all day long by sharing things via social media, just don’t encourage it on your own site.
If people want to comment about your article or article or piece of work, they can do it on their own blog and reference it. At least then they’ll have to put some thought into a response. Which is exactly what you’ll have to do with this one.
