comments, complaints, compliments

Just a few days ago, I received a comment left on a 4 years old blog post of mine. It said something along the line of he has seen more interesting blogs.

Once in a while I do get this kind of less-than-neutral comments on the blog. While we all like to receive positive comments, I think it isn't unfair to receive negative feedback as well. (nah, we don't brush it aside as "noises") But on closer look, the commenter also left his URL with the comment. That is like, trying to earn link-love. If you had put it as a hyperlink on your name, that wasn't that bad; but to put it in the comment box together with whatever you have written, that looks kind of out. In fact that looks very very much like self-advertising. Others, well they did put it in the website box, but it links to nowhere but a web shop. Your intent is quite obvious.

Please, there are better ways to attract web traffic.