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I would never bother commenting on a blog/post 'It is all good. Make it so for the future ie keep up the status quo.' Am doing so here though for the record. Viva DG (sorry channeling Romans for various reasons. This is not relevant.)

I removed the Facebook Like button from my websites. It served little purpose.

a) few people "liked" my pages (true, they may not have liked them but even one page that had quite a few positive comments managed to not get a single like.

b) it doesn't do /anything/. It doesn't drive your site to new readers in any way. Your friends on Facebook don't read through your list of likes going "hmm, might read that."

I came to the conclusion in the end that Facebook Like didn't matter to most people. They didn't care. The only people who cared were Facebook who got some advertising information out of it.

Lots of comments just aren't worth other people reading - like this one - so just keep things as they are

The posts (here and elsewhere) that I like tend to attract either almost no comments or huge numbers. If the post says what needs to be said, there may be little to add. Others (such as the current boycott of Elsevier which is exercising the mathematics community) get so many comments that I am discouraged from adding my own - I feel I will look stupid if I say something that has already been said as if it were original to me, and I usually don't have the energy to read through everything that has been said.

The easiest solution, for me, is that if I really do want to add something to the discussion, I can post my comments on my own blog.

As to the "like" button (which you get by default on WordPress blogs), I am sure that there are "likers" and "non-likers" among readers, and that the people who click the button are by no means the same as those who comment.


Facebook is evil.

Exactly DG. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If only software providers would pay more heed to this little dictum.

Facebook likes are reassuring to the person who wrote the comment that's being liked, it's encouraging to know others' views even if they (the LIKERS) don't write an actual comment. It's not really evil, for me its simply a way to keep in touch with friends (genuine ones) who have moved away, without having to phone or write.

Kittehns kittehns cute cute kittehns blather blather.
Sorry - had to....

I'm considering removing the comments element from my blog. No-one ever uses it and it just looks a bit crap with no comments on anything ever.

And there was me going to say that if there was less overt hostility to all things kittenish there would be more comments. Oh Well.



The Blogger comments system works quite well. At least I know that they are somewhere safe. I hope. Having the blog on one platform and the comments on another is problematic, I feel. If people can't get their act together enough to comment on the Blogger system, which includes anonymous posting, then frankly I don't really care. There are all sorts of settings to help prevent spam and to control the presentation. But the system here seems to work fine too.

ooh, thanks for all the links, DG.

Feargal - you may be lucky but I've sometimes completely failed to leave a comment on a blogger blog, despite several attempts, whether anonymously or using my openId settings. It's a problem which seems to have started in the last few months and it comes and goes. I thought it was just me and my rubbish rural broadband but others have been saying the same thing.

Oh and at least DG doesn't suffer from that tedious meme where people race to leave the first comment, usually just saying 'first'.

Why doesn't Farcebook have a "Don't Like" facility? Oh yeah, we're all shiny happy people all the time aren't we? We dare not utter our discontent and wreck the big party.

What I want to know is what the next DG jamjar project will be now that the London Boroughs have been exhausted?

The London Boroughs haven't been exhausted quite yet. He still has to visit Barking and Dagenham I believe.

As for what's next, I would suggest as it has been many years since the first one, a revisit to see what has changed and what has stayed the same.

I agree with this post!

You know you love the kitten comments really ...

As a resident of the first borough, I 'like' Barry's comment.

FYI - I put my thoughts about both this post and the previous post in a comment in the previous post's comment area.

Hello. I've been busy so I've only just seen this. Thanks for the nice comments about Tridentscan, I try and make it as simple and as working as possible.

The trouble with letting other people use it is that it's a) very very simple and b) quite customised for DG.

Anyhow, new features come along as and when I get round to them, but it's never going to go any further than what Haloscan ever had - it really is designed to be just simple, quick and easy.











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