"Completely agree David. Getting comments on a blog is definitely very nice. Especially if it leads to some form of dialogue or conversation, or perhaps even correcting or adding to the original post. I pretty much consider those other types of comments that you’re talking about as Spam. Though, I don’t moderate as much as it’s a hassle like you said. The problem I have with comments though, is that once it’s left, it’s a bit troublesome to track back down to see if the blog author has responded to the comment left. Even if the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” is checked, I sometimes forget where I left a comment that I needed to follow up on. Thankfully BackType and Disqus is helping me with that a bit. I do hope there aren’t too many out there that leave comments strictly to boost their pages. Strictly since I believe that good content will always win out."
- John Wang