Archive for category: Why your site doesn’t need comments

Reasons why your site doesn’t need comments

How to ‘renew’ Toronto’s national newspaper    (2010.07.19)

What I told John Stackhouse of the Globe and Mail. In short: Why did you ever believe Mathew Ingram on the topic of comments? (Now with update after off-topic caterwauling from Carl Wilson)

The Internets don’t want you to improve    (2010.03.03)

The Internets, like other young men, hold grudges. The issue is not your own desire or need to change. It is enemies’ and opponents’ desire and need to stop you from doing that

When failure is an option    (2010.02.12)

I try to improve. Who, it seems, does not? Denis McGrath

Surely you understand by now why comments are a bad idea    (2010.01.12)

“[A] searing insight into the pathetic and disastrous state of our comment-obsessed culture”

Yet another reason your site doesn’t need comments    (2009.11.18)

Because DesignNotes.info has them. (Isn’t the type on your Web page like Trajan’s Column?)

Another argument against comments    (2009.11.16)

Because Joe·My·God has them

Does your site really need comments?    (2009.11.05)

You can’t act all surprised when people show up to shit in your pool. But what exactly can you do?

The downside of comments    (2006.07.12)

Why I don’t allow comments. It has something to do with ongoing, deliberate vituperation and personal defamation