Comment On Back to the Porch

I have no hopes to convince anyone of my point that may or may not surface in this post, but heck this is my blog home, and here I am right! Or welcome to be told how I am wrong, Just visit, ok? So I came across this post — er newsletter thing by a Matthew Guay titles “What we lost when we lost comments – Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.” And I land in agreement with the call to come back to our blog homes, to stop spending all day harking at the social media malls. You can have a blog without comments, it’ll just be a bit of a lonelier place. You can have a newsletter without comments and with replies, it just won’t turn into an organic, reader-led community. Comments in both instances let you turn your writing into the glue that brings people together, and keeps them around long after they showed up. Who knows, they might enjoy talking to each other enough that you fade into the background, as your writing morphs into something that takes on a life of its own, and…