{"id":3386,"date":"2008-07-19T10:13:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2008-07-19T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T17:18:55","slug":"project-bloodhound-great-debaters-making-the-most-of-comments-with-conversations-and-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3386\/project-bloodhound-great-debaters-making-the-most-of-comments-with-conversations-and-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Bloodhound: Great debaters: Making the most of comments with conversations, and controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family’s heritage is German\/Austrian on one side and Irish on the other, and I like to romantize that mix\u00a0by thinking it’s a perfect\u00a0blend that makes us both strong and passionate. Some of my favorite memories are of family get togethers over dinner. We talk through the dinner, we clear the dishes and spend an hour or more talking, sharing, discussing, arguing, laughing, loving, enjoying each other for the different views and voices we bring to the table. Everyone is welcomed and encouraged to take up a position and defend it strongly; the devil’s advocate is a frequent guest-\u00a0fence sitters\u00a0garner no respect.\u00a0It all makes sense now, doesn’t it? Yes, in that respect Bloodhound Blog is like family to me.<\/p>\n

I wrote a snarky little post<\/a>\u00a0on ActiveRain about point whoring- leaving insipid comments for the points. I wrote a more thoughtful companion post<\/a>\u00a0as well, but the snarky post got some link love from Maureen McCabe<\/a> and her post sparked more discussion<\/a>\u00a0(both Maureen’s post and the snarky post are member’s only). The nature of AR is that members get points for leaving comments on other posts. Okay. Fine. Whatever. While this encourages comments, it doesn’t encourage actually reading a post, and does nothing to encourage thoughtful comments.<\/p>\n

I love comments, but I don’t love all comments. I love the give-and-take of conversation that\u00a0is created\u00a0in a good comment thread. I love discourse and discussion and yes, even disagreements. I’m not fond of the “Great post, thanks for sharing” comments that are so ubiquitous on ActiveRain, and I’ve since created an abbreviation, GPTFS, that I think point whores and lazy commenters should use. If you use GPTFS, then I’ll know that you are commenting for points or because you want to leave a link, but not because you really give a damn about my post.<\/p>\n

Apparently I’m in the minority about this on ActiveRain and the question came up “Would you rather have no comments…?” and my answer is yes. Yes I would rather you didn’t use my time, my blog, my thoughtfulness, as a place to deposit your big signature, your spam, your point whoring… But forget Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Brown talked about this at Bloodhound Unchained: A thoughtful comment is an art and one you should practice; it can show the world who you are, what you think, what you have to offer. If all you have to offer is GPTFS and your signature “HomesInSoCal” (if that’s your signature, nothing personal, top-of-the-head created) then what you are really sharing with the rest of us is that you have nothing of value to share with the rest of us, and that’s too bad for you, because what many bloggers don’t get is that a thoughtful comment is an opportunity to participate in some of the finest social networking there is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,62,175],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-dirty-laundry","8":"category-project-blooodhound","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":461,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/461\/blogoff-post-84-give-your-weblog-posts-a-magic-middle\/","url_meta":{"origin":3386,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #84: Give your weblog posts a magic middle . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Problogger \u2018How To\u2026\u2019 Group Writing Project, Business Blogwire serves up \"5 Tips on How to Give Your Blog Posts a Magic Middle\":1. 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