Comments on: 5 Ways to Reduce Your Comment Count

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:25 +0000

Glad it made you laugh. The items on the list seem so common sense to me, that I can't figure out why in the world people actually require things like logins to comment. When they ask me how to get more comments the first thing I do is check their site to see if they've been doing any of these things. haha

Glad you have you at EricaSays.com!

By: thevictorchen

thevictorchen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:13:57 +0000

Lol! This is halarious! Thanks for the good laugh.

By: Graham Tappenden

Graham Tappenden — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:28:44 +0000

We are a small office, but we both blog

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:26:30 +0000

That's true, Graham. I've been on several sites where I've had a problem
with commenting too much in too little time. haha I imagine if you were
in a large office this could be a big problem!!

By: Graham Tappenden

Graham Tappenden — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:24:46 +0000

Can I add IP blockers? ie. systems that prevent two comments from the same IP within a certain amount of time.

To the outside World, our office is one IP address regardless of how many computers are online.

By: Kris Cain

Kris Cain — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:46:23 +0000

Sorry that i am just replying. Busy week! Yes, I use Contact Form 7 also! I just started having problems like 2 weeks ago. Not really bad, but enough me.

As for the twins… my girls will be 7 next month, and my boys will be 4 in May. They are good at entertaining each other. LOL!

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By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:33:01 +0000

Oh, I was going to add captcha and auto-play. Or how about those trashy pop-up ads that float with you now matter where you scroll. Ack!

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:15:48 +0000

I get what you're saying about excerpts ... but I just can't break an article into pieces on the main page. I've tried, but I just feel bad for a poor little half article, seemingly lost in the world.

You're definitely right about requiring a logon. I don't even require an email address on my site, so that guests can leave a comment. I love seeing Gravatars, but comments are great.

I hopped here from your comment on Pro Blogger.

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:09:07 +0000

I didn't even know you could install different commenting systems on
blogger! See how long I've been away from all that??? Seriously, blogger
blogs are one my my commenting pet peeves. Especially the ones where I
really have to hunt for the "Leave Comment" link and then it opens
everything in a new window.

Some people just love Blogger and I don't get it. I used it for my first
two years, switched to WP and have never regretted it. I feel like Mike
when he talks about Captchas.... when people start talking about the
blogger platform I start to hyperventilate...