Being Lost in the Conversation?

11. Apr, 2007 7 Comments - Leave your comment

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.

7 Comments on “Being Lost in the Conversation?” - Add yours!

Bes Reply 11. Apr, 2007 at 10:47 am

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 Reply 11. Apr, 2007 at 6:37 pm

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 Reply 26. Apr, 2007 at 8:21 am

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 Reply 26. Apr, 2007 at 2:03 pm

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.
Abby Reply 21. May, 2010 at 1:13 am

Best of luck,Wancy

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