A question

[pecunium]

If I don't close comments here, when I link to a photo post on TKP I get some comments.

If I do close comments here, I don't get any there.

So, I wonder, is there something which seems specifically unfriendly about commenting there? I'd like to have some sort of actual community there, so that people who want to talk photography can do so, and so that people who find that site (and not this one) have a sense of someplace welcoming to discussion.

Thoughts?

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

At first glance, there's no obvious way to leave comments on the entries on your website. When I click on a particular post, I'm then invited to login or register to leave comments. I'm already drowning in registrations, passwords, and such. I have to really, really, really want to comment on something before I'll register for yet another site.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

A appreciate that. I also know that if I don't have something, I'll be buried in comment spam. Would you prefer a catchpa?

Personally I hate cathpas, worse than I hate telling firefox to keep another password.

Which reminds me, I need to backup that file to the off-computer drives, so I will have them if this machine goes tits-up.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Right, I never realized that anyone _could_ post comments. There should at least be a "0 comments" or similar somewhere for each post.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Yup. I don't want to manage yet another registration.

So I just look at the pretty pictures and walk away.

:: sorry ::

[ms-tek.livejournal.com]

no one ever comments on my website either.

I think people don't know how to use an RRS feed.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

You can post comments? Huh.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I missed the bit where you *could* comment.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

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Drupal? Given your visibility and community here, you might want to have a look at this, which at first Google appears to be your starting point for OpenID client support. OpenID would mean that LJ users could log into TKP with their LJ IDs, removing most of the activation energy hump, and would also provide continuity - commenters would know who each other were.

Having written that, you're still facing an uphill cycle race: getting LJ users to comment on an external blog is notoriously difficult. Attracting non-LJ readers and commenters is a whole other question and, barring being slashdotted or digged, is a long-term project (like any other sort of community-building); getting comments would still be helped by OpenID though, along with TypeKey and Google/Blogger if you can find support for them.