Comments on: Are Your Comment Settings Making It Harder For Readers To Comment?

By: Omim | cirugía estética

Omim | cirugía estética — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:41:34 +0000

For me, having to register to comment is a real problem, waste of time. I think moderation is always best.

Cheers

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:40:40 +0000

Hi Juliannejns, the @name reply in comments evolved from people using it on twitter. Once it became common to ues on Twitter people used it with comments.

Your best option is to enable threaded comments in Settings > Discussions. This means you are able to reply back to each comment individually and then decide if you want to include @ or Hi with the pserson’s name.

By: juliannejns

juliannejns — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:01:17 +0000

Is there a way for students to reply to a peer’s comment without using the @reply format?

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:17:20 +0000

@jenn king, Can you give me your blog URL so I can check your theme?

By: jenn king

jenn king — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:34:33 +0000

Hi Sue!
I have readers that may not be very blog savvy and have a hard time finding the tiny text that says “12 comments,” or they may find it but not realize that is where they need to click in order to leave a comment. (I have gotten this feedback from blog readers.)
Also going along with that is the problem of having to scroll through all the comments in order to find the tiny text that says “post a comment”, but that issue has already been discussed.
I can’t figure out a way to enlarge that text (that lists the # of comments”) or add something that says “post a comment” directly under the post (instead of it just saying “12 comments”). It needs to be more clear and quicker to access! I have a feeling many readers give up after not being able to see where to click to post a comment. Any advice? Thanks so much!

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:30:11 +0000

@dausten, Glad that information helped.

Threaded comments are feature but only on Pro blogs. Depending on what theme you are using determines how you activated the threaded comments. The three Premium themes you need to use Settings > Discussion and then enable threaded comments.

For all other themes you need to go to Plugins > Installed and activate threaded comments plugin.

By: dausten

dausten — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:20:32 +0000

@Sue Waters,

Hi Sue,

The info re:Settings – Discussion has helped my clear up a number of questions (received 150 e-mails after a I set up a literature blog for our school that another teacher is moderating!). I was able to follow your directions and make changes that will meet out needs.

Glad to hear that you will pass along Grace’s request above ( the ability to comment to a comment). This would seem to make conversations more organic.

Thanks again for the fine work…

Deidre

By: Gregory Stringer

Gregory Stringer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:25:49 +0000

Thanks for some great tips, Sue. I hope the changes I’ve made will make it easier for others to comment on my site.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:45:59 +0000

Hi Jonah, that is not correct but I can understand why some people think it is the case. The default is that you have email addresses but you can go to Settings > Discussion and change it so that email addresses is no longer required.

By: jmsalsich

jmsalsich — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:51:18 +0000

Sue,
A colleague switching over from blogger to edublogs raised the concern that it looks like students must have an email address to post comments on edublogs. Blogger’s comment form is a hassle for those of us who want to link to our URLs, but the “anonymous” option does allow anyone to comment.
Is it the case that all commenters must enter an email address? Is there a way around this for elementary students?
Thanks, Jonah