When it doesn't have any comments.
Nadine Dorries has turned off the comment facility on her blog, saying:
I am no longer going to post comments on my blog.
Please don’t send any more comments - It’s a time thing, I don’t have any.
I have to rely on the patience of others to read and post the comments for me. I am never in front of a computer for more than a couple of minutes at a time and this has now made reading the comments before they are posted impossible.
Knowing that there are comments on my site which I may not even have had time to see, makes me uncomfortable...
Well, she's utterly wrong to do so. A blog is a conversation. Without the comments, it's nothing more than a speech. That is makes her "uncomfortable" not to have seen the comments on her blog is no argument for turning them off. It is the very nature of the internet!Please don’t send any more comments - It’s a time thing, I don’t have any.
I have to rely on the patience of others to read and post the comments for me. I am never in front of a computer for more than a couple of minutes at a time and this has now made reading the comments before they are posted impossible.
Knowing that there are comments on my site which I may not even have had time to see, makes me uncomfortable...
She ends the announcement with the comment:
I will continue to blog each day as I can do that on the run!!
Yet without comments, it's not a blog. Simple as that. Without comments it is not a blog and you are not a blogger. The ability to comment is the very lifeblood of a blog, without it it is nothing really. A recipe missing a vital ingredient, a perfume without any scent - pretty damn pointless.Without comments, is it - can it be - a blog? Short answer: no.
Image: Nadine Dorries
