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Re: Comments that SUCK!

Deutschland spot — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:13:39 -0000

Great article. Nice blog. Keep it coming. Mike

Re: Comments that SUCK!

kelly — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:42:52 -0000

The only NEW feature that Blogger has now - you can have all comments right under every post instead of the dumb pop-up window for comments (I hate that pop-up too!)

I still prefer self-hosted wordpress blogs. They really stand out! :)

kellys last blog post...One Human Trait often Overlooked as a “Online Success Ingredient” (Part 2)

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:38:00 -0000

Kinda like Windows Plug and "Pray" don't you think ;-)

Re: Comments that SUCK!

NIHAL — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:43:00 -0000

Hi BB,

Looks like we're still fighting this war aren't we?? ha ha ha

Everyone wants to know the answer, does it work or not? Totally agree with you guys, BB and Andy.

The best thing to do here is just remove them and then... just pray it works :)

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:29:00 -0000

Hi Jewel. Join the crowd. :)

Removing the "nofollow" attributes from your template is a good idea so you should go ahead and do it.

All I was saying is that after removing it from my template I can still see at least one "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" attribute in the source code for this post page that Blogger has stuck in there despite my efforts to remove it.

How that impacts overall is anybody's guess at this time.

Nevertheless, like I said it is still a good idea to remove the attribute from your template.

I believe what Andy was saying is the pop-up comment page also shows nofollow attributes but we need not worry about that because it is Blogger's page and separate from our blog. I agree with that opinion.

I hope this helps clarify the confusion.

...BB

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Jewel Goodwin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:29:00 -0000

I am so confused. It seems like the Bloke is telling us it does nothing to change the nofollow, since comments will stay nofollow, but then others (Andy for example) are saying it works? Can you clarify?

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:18:00 -0000

Beats me :)

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Kuanyin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:03:00 -0000

Fascinating info and commentaries. I learned a lot, but I'm still confused! :-) So should I start commenting as anonymous?

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:12:00 -0000

Hi Andy. Welcome back. I think we’re talking oranges and mandarins here. What you refer to as the permalink page, Blogger calls the post page. And that’s what I’m talking about.

I agree with respect to Haloscan and I wouldn’t use it for other reasons as well. I do however use it for trackback which is better than nothing.

Sorry about the small window but I have no control over that. You can however maximize it and make it easier to use. Thanks again for the comments.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Andy Beard — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:17:00 -0000

You are looking at the comment link, not the permalink. When you click a comment link, it oprns a popul with nofollow links. That is just a form, it doesn't matter if the links are followed.

What matters are the links on a permalink page

http://www.Blog Bloke.com/2007/06/blogger-c...

That page does not have nofollow on the comments.

Regarding haloscan, do no use it for comments, at least if you want to have the possiblility to move to another platform, or want to be part of the dofollow community. Haloscan comments are not "dofollow" from your domain.

The window is fixed width, maximised at aorund 4500 pixels wide. It is a pain to use.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:51:00 -0000

BTW, all you have to do is click the 'Maximize' button (the little square in the top right-hand corner of the pop-up window) to make it open up. This works with all browsers.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:36:00 -0000

Sublimely, I forgot to mention that your post was very thorough and well done.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Sueblimely — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:48:00 -0000

Please ignore the question about Haloscan as I just read your post 'Trackback is Making a Comeback', explaining why you stopped using it for commenting - because of the time limit on how long the comments remain there.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Sueblimely — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:39:00 -0000

I agree the incomplete pop up commenting window is very annoying. I use a Firefox extension that allows me to right click in the pop up window and choose to 'open in duplicate window' - the new window is full size.

I left a comment in reply to your comment on my nofollow post on 'Blog Blond' regarding using Haloscan (www.haloscan.com) for Blogger comments. I wondered if you had any opinion about using this method?

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:47:00 -0000

Looking at the source code for this page I'm seeing lots of nofollow attributes. Nevertheless I agree with respect to using Blogger ID is not a good idea, but thankfully they have provided an option ("other") to use our own URL. Thanks for dropping by Andy and putting up with the Polish windows. ;-)

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Andy Beard — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:24:00 -0000

I am generally avoiding commenting on Blogger blogs at the moment because I end up with a half size windown in Polish so I can't even proof what I am typing correctly unless I reduce the window to be showing text 4 pixels high.

The links that count are those on your permalink, not those in the stupid comment entry window.

Your blog is correctly a "dofollow" blog with followable links on the permalink page, which is the page that matters.

It doesn't matter about links on the popup form page

Then again you are not going to get any benefit from it at all as a Blogger user if you comment using your Blogger ID

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:10:00 -0000

Good point! I can't believe I missed that one.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Juggling Frogs — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:54:00 -0000

Well, as long as we're writing to Congress, Blogger, and Granny, we might as well mention that it would be nice to be able to EDIT comments, not just DELETE them.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:05:00 -0000

I knew that bashing Blogger would smoke out the Wordpress fanatics :)

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Mike — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:29:00 -0000

"And so my fellow bloggers, be sure to write a post about this nonsense. Write to Blogger, your congressman or even to your granny and tell Blogger to stop imposing its will on us and let there be link love."

...and then install WordPress ;)

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:40:00 -0000

I never noticed that before. No wonder my right index finger is so sore!

Great to have you back again Doug!

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Douglas Karr — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:41:00 -0000

This may sound funny, but the thing I found most annoying by blogger comments is that they don't have their tab indexes set properly for the form when you select 'other'.

Enter comment, then tab and it goes to your name, tab again and it goes back to the comment. It requires me to mouse-click back to the URL field and then click the submit.

It's been like this for over a year!

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Blog Bloke — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:47:00 -0000

I said the same thing in another post when I thought that I had gotten rid of it. But unfortunately just removing it from the template doesn't affect the comments because Blogger still controls that part of the code.

There is nothing wrong with saying you removed it from your template, and how that affects comments is out of your control. I haven't read your policy so I can't comment, but if you think it's important enough to edit then I guess that would be up to you.

Re: Comments that SUCK!

Juggling Frogs — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:04:00 -0000

Uh oh. I removed the "nofollow" from my templates, and then wrote that I did so in my "comments policy."

Does this mean that I'm misrepresenting what I've done?

Is there an easy way to check that I'm not lying when I tell people I've removed the "nofollow" tags?

This is annoying. Grrr.

Thank you, Instabloke, for keeping us informed about this.