Comments on: GarryConn Popular blogger who just Doesn’t Get Social Media at all…

By: Типография

Типография — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:31:18 +0000

By: Типография

Типография — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:31:18 +0000

By: Garry Conn Ruins His Reputation

Garry Conn Ruins His Reputation — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:07:14 +0000

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By: max191

max191 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:17:28 +0000

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By: jsinkeywest

jsinkeywest — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:50:51 +0000

Hey I like YOU. I think he went out like a sucker. I tried to reach out to him a few times and it's no use. Taking your comments off it's the definition of lame. What does Seth Steve and Gary have in common ? They all think they are way bigger then they are and sadly many people back em up. Oh well less comments for them is more for US
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By: boomandlightshow

boomandlightshow — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:36:27 +0000

^ it’s his blog, he can do whatever he please with it .

By: patrickcurl

patrickcurl — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:45:33 +0000

As a Social Media fanatic – I'm fanatical (excuse the pun) about open communication and commenting is about open lines of communication.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:55:49 +0000

I guess it is a personal choice. Garry Conn has enough good information for his blogs to sustain. I do not think it will become a rant without the commenting, reading his blog i cannot see any ranting, he is just giving good how to information and tools to use. Sometimes you need to free up some things to manage your time better. This is what he has done. It may just work for him.

By: patrickcurl

patrickcurl — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:38:33 +0000

Lynn – My point is that blogs are two way communications between everyday readers of the blog and the blogebrity that they're reading. Its a way to become closer to your readers. By taking that away you get rid of the closeness. A blog can begin to become empty and shallow. If you have a forum to go along with it, well that would help open your website back up, but with the social web – more and more blogs / social media websites are about being open, not closed.

Closing comments will in the end close the number of people who partake in his blog. I for one have stopped reading his blog, not only because of the commenting, (that was the last straw), but also because of the lackluster content. The quality of posts have gone down substantially.

The thing that sets Steve Pavlina and Seth Godin apart from the rest as far as commenting – is that each blog post that they write is extremely long, extremely full of content, and gets a ton of shares.

If you're gonna remove user interaction from your blog you better damn be sure that you have the super caliber content that nobody else can deliver, or like my blog post said, you'll just end up a has-been like Kumiko's cashquests was, or any other great blogs that have fallen apart for other reasons.

In the end it all comes down to two things – social / user action OR stellar content, you need at least one of those two things to be successful, and I fear GarryConn.com in closing comments has cancelled the first one, and I don't know if his content can keep up.

By: Lynn M.

Lynn M. — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:05:02 +0000

Steve Pavlina is on your BlogRoll and he stopped allowing comments on his blog too http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/blog-c... – This was back in 2005. He had many of the same reasons as GarryConn for doing so. Here it is 2009 and Steve's blog is still very much in existence. So why not rant about him too? I'm just confused why Garry is being so criticized for this (not just by you) when other successful bloggers have done the same thing? Although, I'm sure Steve Pavlina had his share of criticism too. I believe he now has a forum for his readers to be able to voice themselves about his posts.

I also came across this post from 2006: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06...

Seth Godin also doesn't accept comments. I'm not sure if that is still the case now or not.

But why does it matter if some bloggers accept comments and other bloggers do not? I think bloggers should run their blog(s) however they see fit and in whatever fashion works for their particular lives and schedules. Managing comments can become a real time suck and keep a blogger from writing posts. Some bloggers may thrive on the comments though. To each his own. I guess it depends on their workload and how many blogs they are running and how much traffic the blog gets. It can be a lot to keep up with. Gee……maybe he wants some family time with his wife and kids. Give Garry a break It's not like he is doing something truly strange that has never been done before and even if he was…..so what?