Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)

Re:Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018) by wink on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:31AM (#29264687)

that's a really overly negative view. You can be part of a healthy (small?) community and have normal interaction with your commenters or with the writer, as a commenter.

Maybe the trick is to not get to real success numbers, but I could think of dozens of blogs I read with 0-10 comments per post and no discernible amount of trolling, spamming (well, automated tools help ofc) and so on.

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Re:Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018) by bovermyer on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:43AM (#29264756)

Comments, in my opinion, add nothing to a site. Most of the time they're just noise. Often, they're a distraction.

There's the occasional lucid, intelligent comment that truly elevates a post or inspires someone, but they are by far the rarity.

On the other hand, I'm speaking of comments on larger sites, not small blogs.

I have no interest in allowing comments on my personal blog. If people want to engage me, they will do so directly.

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Re:Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018) by nextaccountic on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:50AM (#29264826)

You're not talking about small blogs, but, if we talk about them.. there are some blogs like https://scottaaronson.com/blog/ for which the comment section can be often more interesting than the blog itself

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