Blog Comments: Innovate or Buy?

September 23rd, 2009 § 2

While this blog focuses on innovation, change, and growth across industries, we can’t help but notice every post takes us back to the middle ages of the Internet, when people were anonymous and email was the most advanced form of communication.  This blog was formed to foster discussion and share relevant news and opinions. At first we were delighted with the responses, like this one:
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But then we caught on…some of our more dedicated readers appear to be interested only in peddling generic prescription drugs.  Luckily we get to approve, or in most cases disapprove, comments before they show up here but the sheer volume in recent weeks has made us sit back and wonder…is this form of marketing even slightly effective?  Does anyone click through?  And who is funding these incessant posters?

If this blog gets that much attention, the one or two (million) slightly larger blogs must be inundated.  Someone’s job must be simply to click “delete” on all the comments.  We’ve included screenshots of our favorites.  Just as we hope we’re successful in helping people come up with new ideas, at least they’ve succeeded in giving us a laugh.

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We don't know what these comments mean but we love them!

We don't know what these comments mean but we love them!

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