For a few months I had enabled comments for every post, but I’m changing things again so that only posts that invite commentary actually have comments enabled. I’m not dissatisfied with the comments, but I think that restricting comments to particular posts will encourage more comments on those posts, since they’ll be special. This could also be seen as an admission that many of my posts really aren’t interesting enough to invite conversation, and that’s probably true.
Comments are enabled for this post.
October 31, 2005 at 5:47 pm
Harumph.
There are lots of things you write about that might invite meaningful comment, even if you don’t believe so.
By arbitarily turning comments off or on, you’re actually discouraging comments by shutting out your community.
October 31, 2005 at 8:36 pm
I’d second that. A personal weblog may not generate many comments anyway. Even public weblogs like linkfilter don’t generate that many comments.
October 31, 2005 at 8:36 pm
Of course that doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy the posts.
October 31, 2005 at 10:21 pm
Lacking an e-mail, I’ll pass this bit of news along here.
Given your positive comments on the musings of Stewart Brand (What the Future Looks Like, 4/22/05), you might be interested to know that Mr. Brand has recently endorsed a techno-thriller novel about the American nuclear power industry, written by a longtime nuclear engineer (me). This book provides an entertaining and accurate portrait of the nuclear industry today and how a nuclear accident would be handled. It is called “Rad Decision
November 1, 2005 at 4:11 am
Kottke does this, and I have to say it is truly annoying.
November 1, 2005 at 11:42 am
Got to agree with the prevailing sentiment – what’s the harm in just leaving comments on – never know what might spark discussion…
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