I love my readers, truly I do
Arianne over at To think is to create wrote a great post about readers and commenting.
I could have almost totally written that post myself. So go read it. Go ahead, I’ll wait right here for you.
Did you read it? All of it? Good.
Like she said
comments matter. . . . This blog is not written for money, and while I do enjoy the opportunities this blog brings my way–at the end of the day it’s still just me and my thoughts and I don’t like talking to my dog. Because that’s what it feels like when a bunch of you read and only a handful leave your thoughts…like speaking out into a foggy night when everyone’s already in their houses and I’m standing alone on the street. When I talk to my dog, she stares at me then walks off completely unaffected.
And as I said in her comments
I so could have written this entry myself. But at my house it wouldn’t be the dawg -she loves me - it would be the cat licking his, well, you know, but none the less not caring about my thoughts or words at all. He might even send a little tail jigging marky-marky my way just to share his thoughts about my words. . . . I want my readers to know that I read them and appreciate that they “leave their mark”, good or bad.
I do try to respond to every commenter, usually in one comment like this one. Some times if it’s been a few days or the post is an older one I respond to the commenter via e-mail instead.
I have a few things up my sleeve for showing my love a bit to my lovely readers who “Leave their mark”. First, I want you all to note that I use two different wonderful plugins that share the luv when you comment. I use Commentluv by FiddyP that parses your last post title and a link to it if you have a public feed. This is great way to get more readers to your blogs, not just mine. Then I also use a plugin called Lucia’sLinkLuv by Lucia of Big Bucks Blogger which allows me not only to better control the commenters and spam, but follows the DoFollow movement for comment. Here, she says it better:
This is a variety of “dofollow” plugin. It’s main function is to strip “nofollow” tags from links in comments. The purpose is to encourage comments by rewarding commenters with “dofollow” links which boosts their rank in search engine. However, this particular plugin also has features that thwart human’s who are paid to visit blogs and leave insipid comments simply to boost their companies back links.
Secondly, I am planning a contest/drawing for the very near future, I just have to get the final details worked out and decide how I am going to do it. It will, no matter what, require a little luv on your part to. So stay tuned and don’t forget to start “leaving your mark” more often.
OH, by the way, go get a gravatar. I am so tired of looking at just mine in the comment section. ;)
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Chef - WOOT!
LOL. If I had known a photo of Grand Prismatic Spring would get a “woot”, I would have done it a long time ago.
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I absolutely love my Gravatar.
Craig Ferguson - WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? I have missed you so. The last time you commented was almost two years ago. It’s been so long; and you are, like, a US citizen now and everything. OH, congratulations on that, by the way.
I have to laugh when I see my latest post title come up. I always wish it had been more profound. By the way, do you still have readers register for private posts? I started doing that with my new site. See ya.
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I know I have asked this before, but, where do I get a gravatar? Is it one of those Japanese anime’ things?
Nevermind, I read the site info. I think I like the monster thingy. It expresses exactly how I’m feeling lately.
I wonder why mine is showing a monster. Cute, but it showed my picture last night. Hmmm… Hope you don’t mind if I test here again.
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Carol - I read your comment in my admin panel last night so I didn’t see who had a Gravatar and who didn’t (other than those I already knew, of course). I’ll clear the monsterID cache in my database and see what happens. I do have it set to use Gravatar.com and MonsterID when no Gravatar e-mail ID is found.
Thanks! Since I am new to a Gravatar, and only registered when you suggested it, I am not sure what is wrong. I did see my own image here on this site when I first uploaded the Gravatar, but it is not there now. I logged in to the Gravatar site, and it seems like it should still work. Not sure, but it doesn’t matter! I like the monster! :-)
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I got thinking, when (or if) my Gravatar image (of me) appears, all this talk about me being a monster might not be so funny. :-D
Carols last blog post..I blog privately about all the “good stuff”.
Once you sign up for a Gravatar, it can take a few days for it to appear, because a real person has to approve the image first. That way, no one can upload pictures of various parts of their anatomies to use as Gravatars.
My first three submissions were rejected.
I love my readers, too, and do miss the comments I USED to get!
Craig Ferguson: Hi! Nice to meet you. I am from Atlantic Canada, and some of my ancestors were from Scotland. :-) I enjoyed watching your entire speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Very entertaining. Why was there only one camera? Congratulations on the job!
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Holley - I love your monster! Truly, love it.
M to the 3rd - Oops. Sorry. I’ve just got to get you off that blogger thing - yick! It’s so hard to keep up with you now that you are private. Remember, I can hook you up real cheap with a self-hosted bloggeroonie. I can help you and everything. Just ask some of these nice fold around here: Chef, Cancerman, Know Tea, and a few other who would rather remain nameless for now. Shh, don’t tell.
Take SL up on her offer–great hosting and support. You won’t regret it!
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Carol,
Regarding the one camera: it was C-SPAN. Given C-SPAN’s budget, we’re all lucky it was even broadcast in color.
:-)
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Oh, now see, I thought it had to do with security.