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Why I don't Allow Comments →
Alex Payne’s reasoning behind comments on his blog:
The main reason I don’t allow comments is that I want to inspire debate. I think people do their best writing when they’re forced to defend their ideas on their own turf. It’s one thing to leave a comment on someone else’s blog, but quite another to put your argument in front of your own readers. It forces a level of consideration that, without fail, results in a higher quality exchange of ideas.
There’s numerous blogs that I subscribe to and read religiously and while not all of them provide a path for commenting, that’s not always a path that I instinctively seek to find in order to express my opinion on the topic at hand.Too much commenting on a blog encourages a “me too” type of system that doesn’t necessarily resemble a real conversation flow and it tends to takes away from the subject especially when most of them are composed of disconnected thoughts and opinions. Instead, I feel more comfortable linking that same topic to my “own turf “, where I have the freedom to express my opinion.
This is not to say I don’t comment myself on blogs but they are few and far between.
