Quotes. Pex. Finally, a Definition of Programming I Can Actual. I believe very strongly that a blog without comments is not a blog. For me, the whole point of this blogging exercise is the many-way communication of the comments -- between me and the commenters, and among the commenters themselves. As I said in How To Advertise on Your Blog Without (Completely) Selling Out: It's an open secret amongst bloggers that the blog comments are often better than the original blog post, and it's because the community collectively knows far more than you or I will ever know. Indeed, the best part of a blog post often begins where the blog post ends. A blog without comments is like Amazon without user reviews. Comments aren't the only form of commentary on a blog post. Of course, as with all other useful things, there is a dark side to comments.
I scrutinize every comment, and I remove a tiny percentage of them: they might be outright spam, patently off-topic, or just plain mean. Comments mean additional work for the blog owner. John Rayner's Blog : Setup of a continuous integration buil. Parsedatetime - Google Code. J Home. Zone.effbot.org ::: www.effbot.org.