May 21, 2004

My experience with the comments function.

One of the downsides to having comments on a blog is that you may end up with lots of entries with zero comments and that makes your site look desolate. But I find it funny that there is one entry that got comments: this one. I think it says something about human nature that commenting was activated by the combination of a familiar children's story, politics, and the problem of what constitutes an analogy.

4 comments:

jeremy said...

What's worse, from my perusal of other weblogs it seems like having 0 comments for a bunch of posts is actually a deterrent to other people leaving comments. So, ever since you added comments, I've been meaning to leave one to help get the commomentum going.

Anonymous said...

he said "commomentum."

Actually, everything you write I want to leave a comment, but I don't want to take over your blog with all my extraneous rantings.

Ann Althouse said...

Well, leave comments. Since you're leaving them anonymously, we can't tell they are all from the same person. Hmmm... I could leave anonymous comments too, if I'm really concerned. Or even if I just have two contradictory ideas and want to use both. Or is that too much like a crazy person taking to himself? No, it's like a playwright, doing dialogue. I like "commomentum." We need more portmanteau words. Anyway, do leave comments. The comments can always be removed if they are bad for some reason. But one reason for removing them would be too many zeroes. People have to go to the inside page to see them, so all that appears on the front is the number, and a big number seems good. So don't worry about the clutter problem. Feel free to comment on a lot of them to get things going and to use anonymous if you want, but the name is also good, especially if we can get this comments function going.

Anonymous said...

The Bush v Goldilocks thing was too good.