Comments on: Poll : Mobilitysite Commenting – What do you want?

By: ctitanic

ctitanic — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:35:07 +0000

Ok, lets test this new comment system.

By: Chris Leckness

Chris Leckness — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:28:41 +0000

Test. I am working on trying a couple things.

By: Chris Leckness

Chris Leckness — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:24:47 +0000

Ok, here is my take and my idea for the future and future growth.

I agree 100% with the confusion factor and would like to make it one or the other too. The reason both are in place is to make it possible for the 2 different types of users that visit.

What are the two types?
1. Forum Users… Current forum users and those that might join the forums to comment.
2. Blog Readers… These are folks that don’t even really use forums. They read rss readers and pop in to a website to comment when possible.

The regular blog readers are not going to take the time to register in forums just to be able to comment. Trust me. Some might, but for the most part they won’t.

Our Forum Faithful here tend to jump strait to the forums. No frontpage looks, etc… If the blog posts (news) doesn’t show up in their “new posts” search, they aren’t even going to know it’s there.

So, here is what I am leaning towards now. I can see many of our forum users also pop out and leave some regular blog style comments here and there, so it’s possible

So, what about I make the blog continue to make a post in the forums, but instead of replicating the post, just have a link to the permalink of the blog post. If you want to read because the subject interests you, hop up to that permalink and comment there.

This will give a heads up to the forum “new posts” folks as well as make it easier for “blog reader” types to discuss stories.

I know that the blog style comments are not searchable, archives, etc… but these comments typically won’t be the type that support a device, that *is* what the forums are good at.

Thoughts?

By: spmwinkel

spmwinkel — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:04:21 +0000

I agree that keeping track of one place where comments can be posted is easier than two places, and for me, the blog is the easiest since I keep track of the news through RSS and am not really active on the forums. I understand that the majority might do this the other way around though!

By: Jerry Mullen (woodknot)

Jerry Mullen (woodknot) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:44:00 +0000

Whatever is the simplest is always the best.
I am an older nongeek and have used this site for several years to try to keep up with the technology. It is difficult to do since it is moving so fast. I use the forums less these days because there is just so much info to try to absorb.

By: uzziah0

uzziah0 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:20:28 +0000

I’d rather have the forum posts show up on the blog.
Really, just so there is one stream of commenting, I guess that would be best.

By: ctitanic

ctitanic — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:36:45 +0000

To have both is a big mess. I’m having problems tracking the comments to news posted by me. I think that we need a system easier for both users and writers where everytime we post a news we are subscribed automatically to that post, in that way we can follow comments a lot easier and be more efficient.

IMHO