On my blog, its easy for me to know when someone replies to my comments because I get emailed all comments that aren’t marked as spam.
It occurs to me that when I leave a comment on someone else’s blog, I have to go back to the page periodically to see if anyone has replied to my comment. This is sub-optimal, and it would be nice if I could receive email notification of replies to my comments. I can’t do this for everyone else’s blogs, but I can at least give my readers the option.
Now when you comment, you have the option to get emailed all comments on a particular post. It even has a nifty subscription manager that lets you unsubscribe and change email address etc. Why not try it out? I haven’t tested it extensively yet, so if it starts spamming you, PLEASE don’t hesitate to email me and swift corrective action will be taken.
I should take this opportunity to remind readers that email addresses you enter will not be published anywhere, ever. And if you don’t know already, all comment fields except the comment text are optional. But anonymous comment authors beware, I have a tendency to think of you as “random internet people” and may not be as nice to you as I would to someone who identifies themselves…
Oh yeah, and there is already another alternative to all this, subscribe to the comments feed.
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