September 1st, 2010 by Andy Merchant
As part of my job at Liberate Media, I am constantly reviewing blogs, online news outlets and similar for our clients and Liberate’s own ongoing R&D.
Two things really annoy me!
First is the huge amount of effort that some blogs/news outlets make you go through to add a comment. It’s really off putting!
To read more on this subject check out the Tamar’s excellent post entitled, Dear bloggers – if you want interaction, make it easy…
There are some great blogging comment solutions out there which are incredibly easy to use and install, so there are no excuses not to have one, i’ve included a few below:
I feel commenting should be a simple three-step process.
1. Add your details such as:Name, website and email address, all of which should be displayed only if you give permission, or alternatively sign in with Twitter, Facebook or via your LinkedIn profile.
2. Add your comment, preferably through some sort of WYSIWYG editor, and post.
3. Your post goes into moderation and is then added to the site. SIMPLE!
The second thing that really annoys me is:
No dates on posts.
It’s incredibly frustrating when you have searched for a blog post only to land on it and discover it has no date, this makes it hard to work out how recent it is.
Personally speaking, if I find a blog post that isn’t dated I will avoid it in favour of a dated version, I wonder if that’s a turn-off for others reading similar blog content as well?
Is there anything that really annoys you when reading a blog post or commenting on one? Please let us know via the comments section of this post.
Tags: Blog, blog comments, dates on blog posts
