ClickComments Sucks!
I didn’t realize it could be this bad. Suddenly, bloggers are asking their readers to be lazy. No more comments, you say. Just click those cutesy icons at the bottom of my post to say how you feel.
But none of ‘em buttons represent what I feel. All those clickety clicky ClickComments icons have are kiss-ass comments:
- Cool stuff
- Entertaining
- Inspired me
- Write more
- Creative
- Insightful
- Touched my heart
- Great find
If I had my way, ClickComments should have:
- STFU and GBTW (look it up)
- This post sucks!
- You suck!
- You call yourself a writer? This is lame.
- My grandmother writes better than you. And she’s dead!
Okay, enough of this. I just find it real stupid why a supposedly instant feedback mechanism would only give you a choice of positive feedback messages.
Clickcomments eliminates these barriers and provides readers a simple and expressive ways to respond to your posts. Sometimes someone else has already written what a reader wanted to write and didn’t want to write a “yeah, what she said” comment.
What she said, huh? You’re breeding a generation of lazy buggers who think with their mouse buttons.
I’m with you. I think I was one of the early ones who tried the Post Reach ‘guest comments’ (been on my sites since Feb/2007 when there weren’t many people signed up) and now have to remove all the code from all of my sites because it was discontinued to concentrate on these ClickComments.
I was asked and offered objective advice on what it would take for me to use it on my sites, and I forwarded it to Hans. I’m sure what you suggested was at the top of my request list too… I have not added any of these comments to my sites, and probably will never want to.
HART (1-800-HART) said this on August 22, 2007 5:46 am