Comments on: Should You Allow Comments on Your Site? http://www.designicu.com/blog/allow-comments/ Web Sites Made Well Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Joerg http://www.designicu.com/blog/allow-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-1211 David Joerg Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:36:47 +0000 http://www.designicu.com/blog/?p=60#comment-1211 When someone I follow on twitter is having a conversation with someone else on twitter, it feels just like listening to someone on a mobile phone on the train. You only hear half of the conversation, and it's annoying and distracting. So the twitter approach clearly works for Gruber, but it wouldn't work for someone like me. Gruber doesn't have to worry about that -- people follow him because he's famous and stuff, and put up with the bother of listening to his half of each conversation he's in. What do you think? When someone I follow on twitter is having a conversation with someone else on twitter, it feels just like listening to someone on a mobile phone on the train. You only hear half of the conversation, and it’s annoying and distracting.

So the twitter approach clearly works for Gruber, but it wouldn’t work for someone like me.

Gruber doesn’t have to worry about that — people follow him because he’s famous and stuff, and put up with the bother of listening to his half of each conversation he’s in.

What do you think?

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