Being Lost in the Conversation?
Have you ever been in a conversation where everybody was talking and acknowledging each other, but when you spoke, it was almost as if your comment was ignored?
When one is ignored, I would imagine that one would feel rejected, left out, belittled, unkempt, or a host of other negative feelings.
A Question for Bloggers
If you are a blogger, do you make an effort to respond to comments so that people don’t feel lost in the conversation?
A Question for Readers
If you are a reader of blogs, how do you feel when you make a comment and it isn’t acknowledged by the blogger? This blogger may even have acknowledged other comments, but not yours.
Bes says...
Good point. I have felt this on many prominent blogs where a blogger will only respond to other “prominent” bloggers or comments which agree with the blogger in question.
As for your questions:
As a blogger, I make an effort to include everyone in everything.
As a reader, I feel really weird if I am left out, and I wonder if I wasted my time writing a comment for a selfish person who only responds to rich bloggers or comments that agree with him/her.
Ronald Huereca says...
Bes,
I have seen first hand the amount of effort you put into your readers.
I also feel your pain when it comes to leaving a comment and being ignored. It’s like, “Why did I even bother?”
inspirationbit says...
As a blogger I’m trying to acknowledge every comment on my blog.
As a reader if my comment gets unnoticed (or even worse - my question remains unanswered), I think - “to heck with you, you’ll get no more comments from me”
on the other hand there were a couple of cases when I commented on blogs that get loooots of comments and I don’t really expect my comment to be acknowledged (in those cases I usually post short comments, or just answer the blogger’s question as part of the survey), then I’m okay with getting no reply, but of course feel much better when I do.
Ronald Huereca says...
You’re not lost! No.
I can see a dilemma though. So far on this blog, there’s some comments that aren’t being e-mailed to even though Bes and I have the e-mails enabled. So if a comment is ignored, it isn’t entirely intentional.