Comments on: Blogspot Blogger comment form change unfair to ALL bloggers

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:39:11 +0000

An excellent comprehensive post. One thing that annoyed me was that the change to the comment form was not announced and blogspot users had to find out from other sources. Some were puzzled as to why their comments had tailed off. I made my move away from blogspot a few weeks ago for so many reasons – I reckon this will be the final straw for many and they will do the same.

By: nick shoes

nick shoes — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:20:49 +0000

Great post – very educative and well written. Good to see so many standing up for the freedom in blogshpere.

By: ed hardy

ed hardy — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:58:05 +0000

It must’ve taken you a bit of time, so thanks for taking the time to do so, I appreciate it, This post is just great, I’ll read the rest of your blog…

By: Leefe

Leefe — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:30:38 +0000

I have a Blogger username from when someone needed me to test it for them. And use it to leave comments.

You don’t need a Gmail address to leave a message, just a Google account (linked to whatever email address you want:) ). Though this does not fix the link to the wrong blog problem. And links in comments having ‘nofollow’.

The OpenID option look promising, but needs time to look into it.

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By: Malou Wang

Malou Wang — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:37:36 +0000

This could be unfair in the first place, but i see also their reason of why they restrict and put some filters and that is, just to avoid spam commenting. Although it limits the the chances of having a wide spread of open communication from web design and development.

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Aaron Cook Dot Com™: Intense Debate Comment System - The Review (Part 1) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:13:20 +0000

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By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:57:38 +0000

I am glad you found this of some use. I have heard that blogspot users are getting less comment because of the changes.

By: ColourfulWorld

ColourfulWorld — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:02:16 +0000

I knew something happened but not the details until I find your blog stating the problem and the associated magnitue. I'm really happy to find this post. Thanks and now I'm on my way to explore other alternatives... ColourfulWorld's last blog post..Perodua Viva: 1st Service

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:16:57 +0000

We could find alternatives to Google, not just in blogging platform but in replacing other Google services with different applications – eg search, calendar, chat, online photo storage, widgets, desktop search, RSS reader. I know they are good but there are others as good. Google makes it easy to use their services by packaging them so nicely together, having one account to access all, toolbar etc. But we could use a bit more effort and use the others.

By: Mig

Mig — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:49:54 +0000

I actually noticed this a long time ago and I expected Google to do some new evil against bloggers. Why is that not a surprise? There are not many things we can do. As long as we use blogger, we use free software and free web space from Google and they are entitled to do whatever they do with the sites, software etc. they own. We cannot fight this. We can protest, sure, but it will do no good. Google remains evil. Mig's last blog post..Body Language: The Truth Is In Your Hands