Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame has attested to the benefit of comments to blogs. Yet after the loss of his site over a month ago, he still has comments disabled. I've always found his blog posts interesting and often controversial. While conversation of his blog posts can come from other sources such as Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News, the most obvious location for these discussions is on the blog itself.
As a blogger, one of the worse things you can do for you and your readers is to disable comments. Comments turn a lecture into a discussion and no matter how much experience or brains you have, there is always someone else who is knows more then you do. Not only will you and your readers benefit from a discussion but you will get feedback on your writing to make you a better blogger.
But Jeff already knows all this, since he's written about it a few times. For the sake of the readers of his blog, I hope Jeff re-enables comments soon. Jeff his always come across as a conversation starter not a lecturer and he should stay that way.
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