A Stinging Comment is Better Than No Comments At All

I have had posts that solicits comments. I too have posts that somehow repels comments. Either way, I take things in stride as long as my blog statistics shows that I am not losing readers just because the comments show zero. No doubt, comments, lots of them, gives every blogger the encouragement to do better. Comments means our article have been read through and they have found something to discuss over or to criticize over. Feedback from these comments whether they are good or critical provides us a platform to work on the improvement of our blog and blogging skills as a whole.

I have learned a lot of things from the comments I get. The last time Vic of BloggingZoom came and commented that I took the lazy way out when submitting my articles to social networks made me realized that the proper way to describe my article when I submit is to write a proper comprehension instead of copying and pasting part of the article in the submission. This will maximise the benefit of the submitted posts even if no one clicks on that submission.

We have to accept he fact that we cannot filter our readers to only readers that have the same opinion as us. If that was possible and everyone who turns up gives us positive comments, we will live in an imaginary world above cloud nine. The kind of people reading our blogs are so wide and varied. Some are very accommodating. Some, very forgiving and nice. Then there are some who are perfectionist who can’t even accept a simple spelling mistake and some who can’t accept the layout of your blog. I benefit the most from the critical ones.

For one, I don’t think I will ever misspell the word “loosing” ever again with two “o”s. when I mean it to be “to lose” and not the opposite of “too tight” LOL. Problem was, it was not a “spelling” mistake so my spell checker failed to detect the “mistake”

Then today, I learned another lesson. Not to use i-stock photos with the water marks on them. It looks really unprofessional to some, especially to those who are into web designs or fields of the same nature. To a casual blogger, I don’t think these nitty gritty things crosses our minds when we sees them or even when we posts our articles.

These are the small things we learn as we go along. The gist is, we must learn from the criticisms we get rather than get all riled up when someone makes a negative comment. Some goes to the extent of chasing away their critics with very harsh words, telling them to f#@k off and they are not welcomed to their blogs. Being so self centered will only make them stagnant and being thus, they will never improve.