Comments on: Nerd Watching: Why I Hate Blogs

By: Michael "Gorken" C.

Michael "Gorken" C. — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:38:55 +0000

New browser of the site.. only just found you yesterday via obsidianportal which I just found during the weekend.

anyhuw back on topic… Often I do not comment a blog as I rarely have much to add. For me leaving a comment “yay nice work!” doesn’t appeal to me just like leaving “dude, that sucks” doesn’t appeal to me. If I’m to leave a comment I want it to be worthwhile to read and maybe even add a perspective to the general topic of the blog. Sharing experiences can provide a new perspective, offering a different view of the topic can do the same. If I find the blog interresting I read it, I don’t neccesarily comment it. However if I find it useful and it helped me with something somehow I am more likely to comment on that.

A rating tool on blogs would actually be a good idea as another commenter wrote above somewhere. Easy to click X stars or wands and you dont have to wrack your brain about writing something that isn’t a total waste of another readers time. Essentially the thoughts you have about writing your blogs, are also the thoughts going thro my mind about leaving a comment, maybe at a lesser scale but the essence is there.

I have no idea what to expect from this site just yet, so what I want I do not know at present time ;)
but am in the midst of browsing the campaign builder pdf and that is something I like to find and browse, leaching on other creative minds :D

cheers

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:52:34 +0000

@Redhobbit: All comments on my posts get sent to my email so I see them no matter how old they are. It is fun to see which articles still draw comments. We still get some comments on the “Share you D&D Knowledge and Win” contest from March 08

By: Redhobbit

Redhobbit — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:30:04 +0000

I like your site, a lot. However I don’t comment a lot since I rarely get a chance to play D&D during the school semester so I don’t read that much about D&D during that time period. Usually when I do decide to read some articles I do so in large bursts, and I feel pretty silly about commenting on entries that are more than a week old. Since usually by that time the post is either forgotten as the next new shiny post has come along and discussion has all but stopped. Then again some people refer to older posts so it’s not true in all cases.

Keep up the entertaining, thought provoking work. Oh and thank you so much for introducing me to Obsidian Portal.

By: zif

zif — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:23:33 +0000

@Yax: I’ve got nothing against doing that, I think it’s a great way to get people talking about the subject. I just think that’s it’s hard to get people to “address the article directly” if you end with those bits. Regardless, you’ve got a great site going. Thanks for all your work and your desire to make it even better.

By: Yax

Yax — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:54:51 +0000

@zif: It’s true that we always end our articles with a Cosmo-like “what do you think everyone?” Don’t blame the writers for that – it’s something I force them to do. Believe it or not it works. Having a “call to action” increases the number of comments – and comments really make articles more worthwhile.