Chapter 4. Building a Community Around Your Blog

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Reasons to Turn Comments Off

Although the framework of social media and blogging is supposed to be built around ideas of openness and transparency, sometimes things can get a little too open. As a general rule, I keep comments turned on for all my posts and off for all my pages. Comments for posts are on because I want commentary on what I’ve written. I have them off on pages because that’s information I’ve put up for reference and I don’t want commentary or feedback.

However, there are good reasons to turn comments off on a particular post. If a post is controversial, often the comments can get ...

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