Metablogging – should I close my WP blog to comments?

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imageMost of the comment action when I post an entry happens at my personal Facebook, where I have a fair number of followers and where my chattiest fans and friends tend to be active.  If I shut down comments here, all of that action will either happen there or on Livejournal, which still mirrors my posts.

People would, of course, still be able to send me e-mails via the A.M. Dellamonica website. All I’d really be doing is concentrating the conversations about my blog posts into a smaller number of venues.

This is one of those rare occasions when I’m asking for advice and opinions. Does your blog allow comments? Have you shut this feature down, as many people seem (lately) to be? Does your site have a “here’s why there’s no comments enabled?” section? I’m interested in all the pros and cons.

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About Alyx Dellamonica

Alyx Dellamonica lives in Toronto, Ontario, with their wife, author Kelly Robson. They write fiction, poetry, and sometimes plays, both as A.M. Dellamonica and L.X. Beckett. A long-time creative writing teacher and coach, they now work at the UofT writing science articles and other content for the Department of Chemistry. They identify as queer, nonbinary, autistic, Nerdfighter, and BTS Army.

3 Responses to Metablogging – should I close my WP blog to comments?

  1. Kier Salmon says:
    August 13, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    I have a blog and I have to regularly go out and clean it up. I monitor the commenting and it does take time. On the other hand, it also provides the feedback I need. So it’s a time investment discussion.

  2. Paul Weimer says:
    August 13, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    As Kier said, its how much value you get for the effort expended. A fair number of authors (e.g. Kameron Hurley, Tobias Buckell) have no comments, period. It works for them…