Now You Too Can Subscribe to Comments
For the longest time I’ve been trying to find a plug-in that would allow readers to receive notification of a new comment on a post.
Today I found it! Finally! I just installed the plug-in “Subscribe to Comments” by Mark Jaquith (don’t ask why it took so long for me to find – clearly it should have been pretty obvious since the name of the plug-in actually describes the functionality I was looking for).
So what does it do you ask? I does exactly what the name implies. You leave a comment here, check the “notify me…” box under the captcha code and when the next person comments below you, an e-mail will be sent alerting you of the fact.
Hopefully the next comment will be a reply to you from me where I tell you that your comment was witty and charming and I thank you for reading SuperBlogTime!
Personally, I really like to find out when someone has replied to a comment that I wrote. The problem I have is remembering where I left comments and going back to them later. With e-mail notification, I don’t have to worry about it; I receive an e-mail everytime someone leaves a comment. And now, SBT has the same system in place! Sweet.
As I was looking for the plug-in, I came across a great post by Ms. Ileane about keeping the conversation going in your comment section. One of the people commented saying that although subscribing to comments by e-mail is a good idea, your in-box can quickly fill up if you do it too often or on a very popular site.
That can be a problem, but one thing I might do to get around it is to create a new e-mail address just for comments. That’s a really good idea if I do say so myself. Genius, really.
What do you think? Do you like e-mail notifications? Is it too much for your in-box or does it keep the conversation going as Ms. Ileane said.
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Thanks for the wonderful content , I hadn’t really thought of that but now you mention it its a good way to keep the people at your website longer . Good for you and good for the readers ! . I think it may overwhelm the email system or Our keeping up with it, but I don’t see it doing that all the time . As witty as we are at most posts .
There are some posts where I would really like to know when a new comment is left. Most posts I really don’t care to know though. I prefer an option so I can opt in if that post topic interests me that much. Even if you are an active blogger and commentator you still don’t want to be bombarded with emails about every single comment you ever left.
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