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Comments and Titles
When I first began blogging, aside from the daily writing, there were 2 other elements to the craft that as far as I was concern were standard to having a blog and that there was no exception to the rule. First ensuring you have an appealing title that would attract a web surfer to want to read your entries and second the availability of a comment system for readers to react to your writing. What if you opted not to have both? Garrett expressed his feelings on the subject:
I said it back then and I’ll say it again: Getting rid of post titles and comments is the best thing you can do for your content. I’ve been without comments for over two years and I don’t ever plan on bringing them back. I turned titles on for the last design and immediately regretted it. I am so thrilled they’re gone again.
I enjoy receiving feedback on anything regarding my writing but I’ve grown so accustom for it arriving via email that even though the option to add comments to Tumblr is available, I haven’t had the urge to incorporate it. As for titles, I would think that by not having them, it would force the reader to have no option but to read your entries to make sense of what the subject at hand is and because there’s no introduction established with a convention title.
