As you can tell from the forums, Steve's site gets a lot of visitors. Moderating the comments he would get from each post would take too much time -- which is why he's opened these forums and disabled comments.
Comments to blog posts are useful because it lets visitors know that other people actually visit your site and have something to say about your article. When you are reading other's sites, seeing no comments gives you the impression that "nobody visits this blog, neither should I." Since I have a newer blog, I really enjoy each time I get a new comment notification.
I also think that comments are a great way to learn what type of material your readers enjoy reading and are great for promoting a site community. Comments also encourage returning visits from readers that enjoy interacting with the blogger.
I highly recommend having a comments section in your blog -- if you don't already!
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Originally Posted by Guardian Angel  Hi! I have read from one of Steve's articles about having disabled his comments for some reasons. I just made a post out of it but not really convincing to do what Steve did, but to give bloggers a choice. Because prior to this, I made a post about "How to make your Readers post a Comment".
Now, if you are were to be asked, are comments to blog posts really useful in general? Thanks! |