Why have a comment feed?
Ok, some of the people who read me and who I read know that I've got a thing for comment feeds. I bet you're wondering what the deal is though...
I love comment feeds because...
I can put your comment feed into my news reader and when I leave a comment and someone follows up on it, I know. I might forget to go back and read through old comments, but this way I know and can stay in the discussion.
My problem when I first started reading blogs? I didn't want to comment on too many of them because 1) I'm shy and 2) I couldn't remember all of the places where I'd left comments so I'd miss if the blog owner replied to me. I felt like I was missing out in some of the fun that is commenting.
This is a perfect solution. Of course, it doubles your number of feeds, but I think it's worth it.
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Happy Monday, gorgeous!
So far, I've only added my own comment feed to Newzcrawler, and for anybody else, I try to visit and read the comments. But for some people like you and M, it might be nice to see all the comments that come in
I like reading the variety of replies and stuff.
So, if you like, my comment feed (courtesy of your wonderful code!) is at http://kadyellebee.com/comments.xml
Ooh, I'm so glad you have a comment feed too! Yay! *big hugs* Happy Monday's almost over.
Why not have everyone just modify their normal feed to include comments so you dont have to have double feeds?
And I thought you said your shyness didnt come across on the internet?
Jay: Because then your feed is like Davezilla's and I stop reading you.
I don't want a update from you every time someone leaves a comment. His feed drove me nuts. Really. 
See, I'm not shy, but like you I always forget where I commented. I read too many freakin' blogs to remember which posts I commented on. I'm trying to talk A into writing a program for me, probably in PHP, that I can use to keep track of the sites I comment on, with pertinent info.
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Yeah, I thought about trying to do that, putting the comments into my main feed, but couldn't come up with a good way to do it.
So this is the best idea that I've seen yet!
M - maybe you (and A) could write something with the RSSFeed plugin and pull your favorite feeds into a webpage for easier access?
Ok, ok, ok ... for YOU I will add it later this week. Promise. It's easy to do, right?
I created mine using ASPRSS (or was it RSSASP which pulled a feed from my database of comments. The only problem is that it is not very clever on the dates so the comment are in a very strange order.
what a great explanation! that makes perfect sense, too!
everyone knows i'm a self described "commenting 'ho" so, that would be very helpful to me, as well!
thanks for helping me lisa...you ROCK!!!