I noticed
something recently after blogging quite a bit this week. I
guess I noticed this
before but it became more pronounced in light of all the featured posts
about “what
is wrong with Active Rain” But maybe it’s as simple
as leaving a comment? Call
it comment courtesy if you will but leaving a simple comment might make
it
worthwhile to the person making the blog post. If you want I can post
some
statistics, graphs, charts, figures, numbers or whatever you want if it
illustrates
this point better but the gist of it is that for the number of posts I
make (and
I am sure this goes for everyone on the network for the most part)
there are
few relative comments when compared to the number of people that click
on the
post (and I assume read it)
For instance
most of my posts usually get at least 100 clicks. Some get
around 2-300 clicks.
I don’t know if that is a lot or that’s typical but
on those same posts I
usually get about 2-3 comments. Now I appreciate the comments that I do
get but
think about this for a moment, several hundred people might have read
what I
wrote but only a few people bothered to tell me they
appreciate the work
involved in writing it. Now I understand some posts naturally attract a
lot of
comments but perhaps it might be a courtesy to at least leave a note
thanking
the person for writing the post. In the least they gave you information
for
free. Even if it’s only linking to another article how much
work would it be to
drop a comment?
Another
example to illustrate how skewed the commenting is on the
network was
yesterdays featured posts. One post had almost 50 comments by noon. Yet
a post
right below that only had 3 comments. Yet the 3 comment post was posted
first.
Yet both were featured. Then by night this same post still only had a
handful
of comments left and yet I guarantee 500 if not more read that post.
Even today
it only had just over 10 comments. If you look at the number of
comments on any
given day it is horribly skewed in favor of featured posts. Sure these
get the
most attention and probably seen the most so that would naturally skew
the
number of comments in their favor but if you look at the number of
people on
the network at any given time obviously people are out and about
reading other
posts but they don’t bother to leave a comment.
It’s strange
to me that a featured post will get upwards of 50-100 comments
with around 500
clicks on it while a normal unfeatured post will get 2-300 clicks and
only 0-3
comments. That means a ratio of 5-10% for a featured post reader vs.
commenter
while an unfeatured post gets a much smaller ratio of 0-1%! I realize
these are
loose numbers but its pretty close relatively speaking.
So what can
you do about it? I guess that’s the premise of
this post. If you found a post
interesting just write a note that says thanks for posting this.
It’s not that
hard. Maybe a lot of people click on a post but then find it not
interesting (a
high bounce rate perhaps?) but I have a feeling a lot of people just
don’t bother
to leave a comment unless the post is featured and I don’t
know why. Does it
make your comment featured and read by all? I guess I don’t
see the point in
that. I actually find I comment much less on a featured posts. I would
say my
own commenting is completely skewed the other way and if your post is
featured
you probably won’t get my comment. Strange huh?
What do you
think?
Comment
Courtesy or am I just crazy?
Or
is this post
too long and I bored you? J
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One thing I wanted to note is that I think for the most part the "problem" with active rain is engagement. Commenting more on other peoples blogs engages both people and would definitely go a long way towards encouraging new people to blog more often. I know everyone feels a sense of accomplishment after reading comments saying how people enjoyed what you wrote. I know I jump when my inbox fills with comments after I post something. In fact I often hit f9 over and over seeing if new people comment.