Sunday Support Group: Comments!

I've just finished loading whole bunches of new comments to each of the last four posts.

They are fantastic and I invite you to delve!

I've also written a few lengthy replies.

There are still a couple of wonderful or touching long comments that you will not find published, but later today I intend to contact the writers and ask for permission to post them as separate self-contained posts. (I do that infrequently, but regularly.)

I think it's just going to be a fact of life from now on that sometimes I'm going to get behind in the comments. Not only am I getting slower at writing and editing than I was when I started this blog when I was in my 40s, but I'm getting slower at everything else in my life as well! Which also cuts into work time. Anyway, I do apologize that these won't be posted sooner. I did start to enlist some volunteers to help moderate comments, but then I lost track of where we were and what I needed to do and fell prey again to my disorganized state of mind, and so that is yet another thing I neglected to finish...sigh....

Enjoy! And Happy Sunday. I hope you are well. Take pictures of your loved ones, and get pictures of yourself with them.

Mike

 

Comments

[Richard John Tugwell]

I know from a few years ago that you don't favour the approach, but I think user registration might be the way to go. It's obvious that if popularity goes up, the site cannot scale to accomodate it. Which makes it a bit self-defeating if you asume that popularity is what drives your business model. Because it is a business, right? Not a hobby.

From a personal point of view I have to admit that comment lag definitely affects my interest in the site. Not sure what others think

[Terry Letton]

Thanks. Now every time I turn on my phone I get a watch ad

[James]

Mike's last sentence...
"Take pictures of your loved ones, and get pictures of yourself with them."

TRULY some of the best advice you have posted!

[Kye Wood]

...and get pictures of yourself with them.

Golden advice sir.

[Gordon Lewis]

Richard John Tugwell speaks my mind.

[Malcolm Myers]

" get pictures of yourself with them." I have far too few of those. Plenty of my kids but I really need to get in front of the camera more!

[John Krumm]

I think rather than use registration and immediately post messages, you need help! To me your general model is proven, all except for the “one employee” problem. Your whole blog feels published, including comments, which is what makes it unique.

[Richard Parkin]

Richard John Tugwell‘s suggestion is a good one. The Comments are an important part of the attraction of your site. A registration model would reduce the workload vastly. I don’t know if the software allows it but ideally it should still allow posting as a guest after approval, as now.

The other problem with the present Comments updating is that there is no searchable break between the old and new comments when you post a fresh batch. Also there is no way for readers to know that you have updated the comments other than by checking the site. Since notification of new posts can be received by IFTT and RSS etc I guess it may be possible to ‘refresh’ the post in some way so that a notification can be received automatically. There is no way that readers can do this as far as I can see.

[Daniel]

On getting behind a bit..., Print Crit & Bakers Dozen?

[Gerard Geradts]

I wrote a comment about the use of the word "hunger". This in response to a remark you made why not to use this word. There was even a quote of someone, meaning if you use it often you don't know the meaning of it. But far better put, than in my memory.
I searched for the page, which was recent one, but couldn't find it. Did you delete a blog?

[It was published Gerard. Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/9umjzdjz

--Mike]