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Here are five fail-proof ways to totally turn off your blog readers -
1. Host your blog on Blogger.
2. Insist that readers use a Blogger ID to comment.
3. Enable word verification.
4. Offer partial feeds.
5. Do not display your e-mail ID anywhere in the blog.
There are 71 million blogs out there. You have to be a very good writer if people are still putting up with all that.
Comments (2)
Well, mine is such a case. I am just a few months old in this world. Many people who are not on Blogger complain about not able to comment on my blog except for 2/3 wordpress bloggers.
I had kept it quite open for all.
But I had to introduce word verification because of spams. And just two posts back I had to disable anonymous comments as well. I am aware some of my readers/commenters don’t have blogs and they won’t be able to comment now.
And very recently I removed my mail-id also though I’ll put it again after sometime.
But the point is, can you really do something about it ? Is there any solution except for shifting to some other platform ?
Is this the price I have to pay for being a open hearted female blogger ?
@Cuckoo: And you offer partial feeds!!!
As Bloggers, all of us need to answer the safeguarding privacy vs. creating conversations question, and my answer is going to be different from yours.
Shifting to Wordpress (hosted by yourself or at Wordpress.com) will help you with spam (via Akismet) and the Blogger ID issue, but the full-feed, e-mail and anonymous comment decisions are yours to make.