“A” makes a blog post. A’s commenting system is C and he’s “registered” with them. Blogger B comes along and read’s A’s post. B is also registered with C. B “reposts” A’s post (or extract) as a post on her own blog along with her new spiffy comment. C is notified of this comment and notifies A that B has commented allowing them the option of posting the comment or not (to A’s blog). Conversely A can comment on B’s comment in a similar fashion. C has the entire thread. A and B can post each others comments as they see fit. Now D comes along and reads A who has decided to “turn off” commenting aka not display the comments. D see’s A’s using C so naturally asks C – “have there been any comments on this post?” C says yes there have and here is the entire comment thread…

Also, it could be designed redundantly so if any one A, B or C dies or get bought out you still could have access to the comments on A and/or B posted and a new X could be brought up and recreate the conversation.

didn't notice the flag at first

1. A fixed commenting period for each post of 24 hours.  

2. Until the period expires, none of the comments would be visible to other commenters. 

3. You could edit and refine your comments during the period. 

4. There would be a length limit of 1000 characters to keep people from using comments in place of a blog post. No one is going to read a blog post in a comment. 

5. After the commenting period is over, the comments would become visible, and no further comments would be permitted. 

Point 1 presumes everyone boxcars his blog and immediately goes over to his blog to comment on any new post. It goes against the very nature of RSS itself in that people sometimes don’t read these posts until much, later on the order of a week or maybe even month. Perhaps this could be determined via analytics for your particular blog. Also someone may run across his post after a search years later and have something new or relevant to add.

Point 2 Limiting information is so unhelpful.

Point 3 Presumptuous – if you want to edit your comment just re-comment – its the way of the real time web.

Point 4 This is the guy who’s striving for unrestricted twitter message length!!! Yes many comments could be revised and distilled and still get their point across but hey correcting peoples english is best left to others. What if your blog were a force for freedom or emergency messages – capping an extremely important message could have consequences.

Point 5 What??? This is the guy who’s all about the users. Where are the users here – lost in a footnote of history. Shouldn’t he relish constrictive criticism and feedback. Honest feedback is the best thing you can get according to some. I’ll leave it to my commenters to provide the reference.

Twitter is non-conversational? With good tools it’s highly conversational – and lets you step outside the echo chamber. I would argue blog comments should exist like twitter does where your blog serves as the @myblog reply fuction and the concept of trackbacks is further evolved, simplified and integrated. I should be able to look at either a blog or a blog commenting on a blog and piece together the conversation those two had. New tools are needed. Tools which uncork limitations, eliminate the need for moderation because your comments are on your blog no matter which blog you are commenting on.

Update: Also a lot of times on his blog he asks for help to figure out technical problems and gets it… and a back and forth is necessary to get the proper information conveyed. Also he’s tweeting about referrals. Is this just a ploy to get more blogs to link to his to help him rise in the rankings?

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