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Why can't we ever comment on the Editor's Blog Posts?


Is Josh afraid that we'll make his site look bad?

Just wondering because it's rather frustrating for me to do so.

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Just do a blog referring to it and get the conversation going...

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Seems to me that you did just comment on a blog from Josh. You did exactly what Stilli said above.

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Oh, I can answer this!

There is a thing called best practice. And while it isn't much formally agreed to anywhere, there is a best practice as to blogging. And that best practice takes into account the following:

If allowed to write just anything to the leader, a whole lot of posts would be like this:

"How could you be so INCREDIBLY STUPID??? What is particularly embarassing is that you DIDN'T EVEN READ MY COMMENT OR THE SOURCES before you began spouting your disconnected idiocies!! I mean, you are such an utter *cretin*, who ever told you that you could run a **blog??** Where did you ever even get the idea; did you check with any sober-minded person before you began this sad failure of an enterprise???"

The above would be a daily thing, and there is no question of that. And the conversation(s), instead of being about something worthwhile, would be about that drivel. So as a businessman, Josh did himself a real favor by getting good advice and opting out of that.

With respect, and I know you are sincere, not recommended. It's a bit frustrating for all of us by the way, no doubt, but it makes loads of sense and we don't obligatorily need to be here.

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Absolutely right!

If you want to comment on a featured blog entry, start your own blog entry and link to the article you wish to comment on.

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Ah but what kind of conversation is it? Almost no one reads my diaries, why should they? I'm no one of consequence. That's fine but I think the site is made worse for the bottleneck in terms of feedback.

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Considering how many responded above and the fact that many read posts without responding to them (I've heard something like 10x. Don't know if it's a real number or just one people have tossed around), you actually are read.

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