{"id":987,"date":"2008-03-20T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/why-dont-you-comment\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:56:15","slug":"why-dont-you-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/why-dont-you-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t You Comment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/comment.jpg\" alt=\"Commenting here is surely easier than burning your message into a piece of wood.\" \/><br \/><small>Leaving a comment is surely easier than wood etching<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Did you know that this blog has 948 entries? How about that this blog has 757 &#8220;legitmate&#8221; comments? That means we average a little under 1 comment per entry. Also worth noting is that there have been 92,121 &#8220;spam comments&#8221; caught that never have been published.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn a daily basis, this space has a fair number of people roll in, look around, and leave. Over time, a core readership has seemed to form (and a dedicated set of commenters as well.) For those of you who do comment, thank you. However, the overall comment to visitor ratio is low. What I&#8217;m interested in understanding from you, dear reader, is why don&#8217;t you comment?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIs it that the content is not comment worthy? Not worth the time? Don&#8217;t want to expose yourself on the internet? Is it too difficult to comment? Is comment moderation for spam off-putting? Do you not like that you have to provide an email address &#8211; I don&#8217;t collect them btw, it&#8217;s another spam deterrent. Is it that I don&#8217;t ask for comments? Is the material not inviting for comments? Nothing to say?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m interested in knowing what would make this place more attractive for participation. If you don&#8217;t feel comfortable leaving a comment to even share why you don&#8217;t comment, feel free to drop me a line: mike (at) montaraventures (dot) com.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving a comment is surely easier than wood etching Did you know that this blog has 948 entries? How about that this blog has 757 &#8220;legitmate&#8221; comments? That means we average a little under 1 comment per entry. Also worth noting is that there have been 92,121 &#8220;spam comments&#8221; caught that never have been published. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}