Rosie O'Donnell has removed comments from her blog. The comments on her blog were starting to get out of hand and some also
include links to porn websites. Rosie told BroadWayWorld.com why she removed
comments from her blog in a recent interview:
We took comments off because it was getting to be ridiculous.
I get great responses, but then you know it just takes one idiot,
writing "you're fat, you're a dyke, you're a fat dyke, you're gay,
and you're fat and you're gay, and you're also a dyke" and it gets
out of control. There were no limits on how much they could post,
so they could just post pages of that, or put links up to porno
sites or whatever. Finally, we just decided to make it comment
free.
Rosie's decision raises the question as to whether comments are a
necessary part of a weblog. Some websites allow comments
to be posted directly onto their blog. While others
outsource to services like Haloscan. Other websites like Boing Boing just point at Technorati for additional discussion. For example, this link to Technorati shows a list of blog posts that contain a link to the Rosie O'Donnell interview mentioned above. Comments posted directly onto a blog's website are likely to diminish in popularity as weblogs become more popular. As blogs continue to increase in number and become more popular
then it also becomes more likely that the comments posted are
increasingly of the kind that bloggers will not want.
