Sigh . . . let it be so!
Conventional wisdom and advice from friends, family, colleagues, advisors, mentors, co-conspirators, professional associates, fellow activists, politicos and most importantly Rob, is that Brenda Konkel definitely SHOULD NOT enable comments on her blog. It will just allow the mean attacks on me and name calling to continue and open me up to be the subject of more nastiness.
The bloggers and techies I know seem split. While they would like to see my blog have comments, they CLEARLY understand the above concerns. Some say a blog is not a blog without comments, other don’t agree. But most agree my blog is pretty good just the way it is, even if it doesn’t have comments.
After much consideration, many technical glitches, deleting my blog and re-importing it and restoring most of the customizations I had in place (still need to add the links, let me know if you spot anything else), against all that advice, I have finally enabled the comments. It is going to be the grand experiment.
Is conventional wisdom correct? Will the trolls and nasty commenters ruin it for everyone? Will I end up with FAIL? Or can comments be enabled without it devolving into that nasty place that so many internet forums go? Will the comments end up being too time consuming? Will I end up disabling them and having to delete nasty comments? It’s really up to you.
Meanwhile, I’m putting on my toughest skin and prepared to duck. Let the grand experiment begin!
