On blogs and RSS feeds
I've started dropping reads from my blogroll. The reason is that I'm interested in reading you but not necessarily your commenters. So if you're going to only publish an RSS feed that has your posts and comments, chances are I'm not going to read you anymore.
(I'd even take a partial post feed over one with comments.)
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This is a new one. It used to be that people were clamoring for RSS feeds to contain both posts AND comments. Interesting. Something specifically spur this on?
I like having the choice.
If they have an Atom feed, then I usually switch to that.
There are a few people I read who get a ton of comments so every time bloglines refreshes, it says they've posted but really it's just another comment.
Nobody that I've put into my aggregator has comment feeds, and I sincerely hope it stays that way. If I want to read the comments on an entry, I'll jolly well go visit the page and read said entry and comments.
So count me as someone who's never been part of that clamor for comments to be included in feeds. Bleh.
I wondered why at first but then I read your comment, makes sense, that would be really annoying. If it means keeping you, I'll change it.
Somebody made me fix mine...
Oh, I'm in such complete agreement, Lisa. I dropped a lot of feeds from NetNewsWire because they included posts and comments, and every time the blogger got comment-spammed the entries clogged up my aggregator. And I don't particularly want to read comments most of the time anyway.
Thanks for the warning!