Comments Disabled

That’s right, until further notice comments have been disabled on Echo Faith. All previous comments will be left in tact so as to preserve the history of the evolution of this blog but all posts (and future posts) will no longer have comments enabled.

Why the sudden change? Well, I’m going to let some other sans-comments-bloggers do the talking for me.

Reason 1: Ego

aka Read, Don’t Skim

John Gruber (daringfireball.net):

I wanted to write a site for someone it’s meant for. That reader I write for is a second version of me. I’m writing for him. He’s interested in the exact same things I’m interested in; he reads the exact same websites I read. I want him to like this website so much that he reads it from the top to the bottom, and he reads everything. Every single word. The copyright statement, what software I use, he’s read it all.

If I turn comments on, that goes away. It’s not that I don’t like sites with comments on, but when you read a site with comments it automatically puts you, the reader, in a defensive mode where you’re saying, “what’s good in this comment thread? What can I skim?”

Reason 2: Time/Maintenance

aka Click, Done

Shawn Blanc (shawnblanc.net):

Since launching shawnblanc.net I have not once regretted my decision to disable comments.

It has opened the door for stress-free site maintenance and publishing in a way I didn’t understand until experiencing it. When I hit publish - I’m done. The article has now been completed. It’s off to print. That’s all she I wrote.

Those are 2 big reasons that have led me to the decision to disable comments. The main reason, however is contained within this quote from Shawn Blanc:

Comments are like cash—they make a horrible master but a wonderful slave.
— Blog Comments Are Like Cash

If you’ve ever had a blog you know how true this is… it doesn’t matter how many people have read your post, seeing that little 0 Comments is the most depressing thing in the world. I would pour hours into writing and researching a good post and when no one comments on it, I think “did I just waste all that time for nothing?” The disappointment would often cause me to steer away from writing more, fearing another zero comment rejection.

This is not why I started Echo Faith.

Hopefully, communication will stay open through other channels such as Twitter, Email, and such.

Thanks for reading, things are happening soon.

Stay tuned…