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Do Not Delete Comment Spam. Mark Spam as Spam. « Lorelle on WordPress — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:16:58 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:57:44 +0000

@ diddums:

First, you should not judge a service in beta based upon single issue problems that are resolved during development. It might be worth trying again. There are a variety of products and services under development that will hopefully make it easier to monitor our blog comments across multiple blogs. Stay tuned while the rest of us test and suffer them during development.

By: diddums

diddums — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:27:20 +0000

I tried CoComment for a while but an update caused problems and I disabled it. It was probably fixed very quickly, but I didn’t go back to it.

What I do these days is subscribe to each blog’s Comments Feed (if I can find it). If it’s a WordPress or Blogger blog, I can usually guess it, and some other types of blogs let us know what the Comments feed is… but in some cases I draw a blank, and just have to go back every so often to see what the responses are.

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By: Stephane Grenier

Stephane Grenier — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:26 +0000

Hi Lorelle,

If you ever do find one, please post about it. I know me and many others would like to know!

And as a quick tip, here’s a great business opportunity. There’s demand and no great solution. What more can you ask for?

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:49:36 +0000

The better question is do you modify your blog to include php snippets or plug ins to make it easier for commenters to track their comments or do you assume that savvy commenters know how to use their tracking service’s bookmarklet?

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:19:02 +0000

I am not sure if I like coComment so I’m going to try co.mments starting with this comment.

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Editing Your Blog Comments « Lorelle on WordPress — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:46:44 +0000

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By: Rich Tatum

Rich Tatum — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:18:05 +0000

Lorelle, like you I comment on others’ blogs frequently, and I tried various methods of reminding myself to check back for comments, but that is so information-and-task-overloading that it’s not worth it. I tried a couple comment-tracking systems, I even tried web-page trackers like Copernic’s tracker (which works, but it also notifes me when elements on a page change, so, more information overload again).

I tried out coComment and, at first, I didn’t really like it. The service was spotty, a number of blogs were invisible to the coComment tool, and I couldn’t easily add an old comment to the tracker if I wanted to continue tracking it.

However, I’m happy to say that coComment now has a crawler that works, I can add all my old comments easily, and I’ve been delighted at its ability to not only track new responses but to notify me in the status bar of Firefox when there are changes to my comments list.

Further, it allowed me to grab the feed and post it on my WordPress blog so that all my own comments at other sites can be read while surfing my blog. This is more google juice, and allows people to “stalk” me from my own Website. Now, posting a comment is also adding content to my blog.

Nice.

coComment isn’t perfect, but it is improving. It’s worth a second look.

Regards,

Rich
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