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Who loves comments? I love comments!

Posted by Sean | Posted under Announcements | July 29, 2008

Great comments are the most exciting part of blogging. I love everything from a good one-liner to rambling alternative viewpoints. Heck, I already know what I think, unless I’m doing research that will take me in different directions. So to encourage comments from other financial bloggers, I’m working on a few changes to Financial Ramblings:

Top Commentators Plugin - the refresh period is changed from "Yearly" to "Monthly" but the number of names is increased to 20.

Lucia’s Linky Love - after 3 posts, the minimum allowed by the plugin, author-name links will become "dofollow" links.

Comment Luv - currently experimenting with this plugin. I’m trying to tweak the formattting so it is interesting but not annoying.

Weekly Roundup - I’ll look to highlight the best comments in my roundups, and shower link love on the commenter’s site. Why not?

Better Wordpress Management - I’m working on it… twenty lashes with a wet noodle if I let good comments go unresponded!

More Commentworthy Posts - mostly, I’ll try to keep my thoughts dynamic and step up my ramblings. We live in interesting times.*

"May you live in interesting times" is reputed to be the English translation of an ancient Chinese proverb and curse. It is reported that it was the first of three curses of increasing severity, the other two being: "May you come to the attention of those in authority" and "May you find what you are looking for"… Wikipedia

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8 Comments so far
  1. Katharine July 29, 2008 10:21 am

    Now I have to figure out what “dofollow” links are >.>

  2. Sean July 29, 2008 10:33 am

    Bad wording on my part. There are no “dofollow” links per se, just the lack of “nofollow” tags.

    see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

  3. Jeremy July 29, 2008 7:19 pm

    I love comments :D I just wish I had more of them on my site. I also like the SezWho program and plugin.

  4. Sean July 29, 2008 8:18 pm

    Welcome, Jeremy! I’m a regular reader of GenX and should comment more often if I don’t already.

    I’ll be curious to see how SezWho holds up, looks interesting.

  5. MoneyEnergy August 3, 2008 10:24 pm

    Great ideas, I’d like to hear what you end up thinking about Comment Luv and Lucia’s Linky love. Let me know how they work, I haven’t tried them yet. I’ve used Comment Relish, but I’m not sure whether I like it or not. I’ve only ever received an email back from one person because of it.

  6. Jeff August 4, 2008 1:35 pm

    Well, I am looking forward to reading these more “comment worthy” posts you mentioned.

  7. Hondo August 25, 2008 9:18 pm

    Haha, I was reading your posts through Bloglines and the reason I clicked on this post was because there was a comment by “Pen|s” (you know what I mean). I’m new to blogging myself and I actually thought it was some catchy new way bloggers were getting people to stop by their blogs. Seriously, that’s what I thought. No, seriously…

  8. Sean August 25, 2008 9:54 pm

    Hopefully, people will still click through to the site after I upgrade the spam filter!