Two packs of Camel straights and a bottle of Jack Daniels might make my voice sound gargly like that, but reproducing the passion could be more problematic.

By Vince Williams on Jun 5, 2008

Dude the Bellevue room has vacancy and it is rent free!

How about this for a comment! lol

By Igor The Troll on Jun 5, 2008

Comments are a measurable way for people to see “Hey, someone’s reading!”

That’s all they are.

By Vinny on Jun 5, 2008

You are right. here is a link to my website http://tinyurl.com/4j9e

By shel israel on Jun 5, 2008

In other words, pure vanity for the writer.

By Vinny on Jun 5, 2008

what now?

By Jecklin on Jun 5, 2008

The value of comments depends on the field I suppose. For some of the blogs I read, the level of information and debate in the comment sections far outweighs the original post content.

That’s a handful of sites though, on the whole you’re probably right, most people view them as statistics, indicators of esteem. Same applies to the number of friends, followers or subscribers you have on Twitter, Myspace or YouTube etc.

Do they really matter? Well try turning your comments off. In fact not only your comments, what if you switched of all analytical tools, stopped reading what others say about you, switched off any visible vanity connection between your blog and the rest of the Internet…it would be like blogging in a cave.

I’m not sure it would be worth doing anymore.

By AndrewE on Jun 5, 2008

Love ya, man.

By Art Lindsey III on Jun 5, 2008

You roll out of bed east cost time in your v-neck hanes and lay it out for us.

Great stuff man.

- Richard

By Richard on Jun 5, 2008

HALLELUIA!!

The old Loren Feldman is back.

By Josh on Jun 5, 2008

and soon Digg will be selling their comments that is why they upgraded their system.. real comments in real time.. comments are a big part of the Amazon system..Survey say’s??

By Uplink on Jun 5, 2008

I disagree with you, probably one of the worst posts you’ve ever made (and that’s no easy feat…). No link for you. But I do have for you some shit I know you don’t care about because you’ve told us a ton of time that you really don’t care about any of this or what any of us think…. (yet, here you are… reading my useless comment… you schmo. lol):

A.) It’s pronounced “discuss” (as in, to talk about stuff) not “discus” (as in, to throw a heavy disc) … duh. That takes a little less than 1/3 of a functioning brain to figure out there, genius.

B.) Fred Wilson is an investor, not the “owner”… kinda different, kinda not… but different for the sake of you being wrong. lol.

C.) “You” don’t keep comments on “your site”… it’s all about where “the reader” (yeah, THE, not YOUR) chooses to leave his/her comment… example: I left this gem here, for you… as opposed to one of the many other places I go to leave complimenting comments about all the fine work you do a most of the other times (not all the time, you are able to whip out some smelly cock from time to time, not unlike the swill i just watched, but most of the time it’s top notch hilarity whether you care what I think or not.)

P.S. you’re still the man. kvetching much today, even for you? yes. still the man? you bet your grouchy ass.

By Matt on Jun 6, 2008

(insert dopey comment here)

By Clintus on Jun 6, 2008

Nobody wants to listen to your rants anymore, they just want to watch your f’ing hilarious puppets.

By Juan Nightstand on Jun 6, 2008

shel israel is right! here is a link to a really good search engine: http://google.com

By wh1ne on Jun 6, 2008

Tell’em Shel Sent Ya

Mr.Wilson

and by the way..don’t report this to the Link Cops ok!!

By Mr. Wilson on Jun 6, 2008

Dude right on! You should have ranted a bit about how sites are all going to the stupid blog and comment style. When in most cases a forum type site would be much better format. Its all about the look at me I am on the Interweb and fuck you all, if you ask me.

By Tim on Jun 6, 2008

Ah, an attempt to generate a lot of comments…. proved false. And if I’m wrong: turn off your comments.

By Ali A. Akbar on Jun 6, 2008

Wow I agree with you! Here’s a link to my website! http://www.constantselfpromoter.com/

By Chris Hooley on Jun 6, 2008

I just made the comment up right off the top of my head!!

By Chris Hooley on Jun 6, 2008

I suppose traffic is more important than comments. Commentary seems to have decreased lately at my site.

By S.P. Gass on Jun 6, 2008

From this seat, comments are just something to do until Yue posts another video.

By DJ on Jun 7, 2008

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By ksofq@gmail.com on Jul 5, 2008

Spot on!

The more obvious it is that my name links to a website the more I want to comment. It’s my grand marketing plan for the site. Spend all day just looking for places to drop my link load.

If only nofollow hadn’t killed my link juice…

By Jake on Jul 30, 2008