Comments on: Michel Fortin Wants More Comments on His Blog, Giving Backlinks to Get Them

By: Cars

Cars — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:55:26 +0000

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:29:01 +0000

I agree with disabling the noFollow attribute, and have done so on my blog.

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:52:49 +0000

Hi Michel – Tried that (twice), but the API key never worked. FYI Michel, just added you to my blogroll. – Mike

By: Michel Fortin

Michel Fortin — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:30:20 +0000

Michael, you need a WordPress.com account (don’t need to use it, just need the account number, aka API key, to activate the plugin). I registered once and use it on all my WP blogs.

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:21:56 +0000

Great!

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:05:44 +0000

Michael: Just added the Return to Comments plugin (upgraded to WP 2.1). Looks like it’s actually working.

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:18:47 +0000

Michel – I tried to enable Akismet many times on my blog and could never get my activation code to work. I am very technical and just could not get it to work.

Tom, you should add the ability to get emails in response to posts. That will pull more folks back to you blog.
Mike

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:17:22 +0000

Steve, I’d respond to your comment, but it simply doesn’t make the grade…

Seriously, thanks for stopping by. The more I think about it, the good likely outweighs the bad.

In any case, I’m giving it a try.

By: Steve Tylock

Steve Tylock — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:04:27 +0000

I don’t know, it seems to be a “better” problem to have than no comments;-)

It would seem to be a fine line to encourage a conversation, but discourage the other guy from commenting. (“your comments are not good enough – no soup for you”-)

Just trying to add a balancing opinion and some levity…

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:21:17 +0000

Michel; That plug-in I mentioned can apparently configure to as few (or many) posts as you’d like. I might test it (in my spare time) this weekend.

Michael; Aksimet & the Bad Behavior plug-ins work well for me, and I’d like to avoid the graphic captcha because they irritate the hell out of me.

The math version makes much more sense.