It appears that the ability to comment on blogs has been stopped. Is there a reason for this?
As an example see https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/the-explorer-part-three-the-items-tab which doesn't have the comment section at the bottom!
Hi Stuart,
stuartw said:But the problem with this is that the writers of blogs don't respond
because one from basic rules of communities is that everything is voluntary, there is no obligation to answer. But I do not think it's the main problem, because people willing to invest their time to write anything are usually ready to react.
stuartw said:I go to the trouble of creating a post about a blog which was started 10 days ago with no respond from the writer of the blog.
Do you mean this post or some other? I guess the problem is how you have informed the blog author that your post is created based on his blog. Nobody is able to monitor all forums and communities.
In my opinion a solution can be to mention the blog author in the text (using @ sign like stuartw ), so this person should be notified by e-mail that he was mentioned in some text (I guess it works this way).
With regards,
Jan
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Jesse Dringoli said:This was changed because of the reasons Aleksander pointed out - we recognized that Comments were being used to start discussions and ask questions, which often went unnoticed by those would could address them.
I agree. Personally I dislike old (but still valid) blogs followed by much newer questions, sometimes even not relevant to the blog main topic.
Regards,
Jan Šlegr said:because one from basic rules of communities is that everything is voluntary, there is no obligation to answer. But I do not think it's the main problem, because people willing to invest their time to write anything are usually ready to react.
That may be so but why have a banner at the top of the blog saying 'Questions about this blob, click here'? If they don't want questions remove the banner. If they do then they should expect them. At the moment it's just plain rude!!
We (Bentley) encourage questions and discussions, but in order to ensure that they come to our attention (and other users willing to help), the questions should be posted to the Forum. The green banner at the top of the blog is a link to the respective Forum.
Jesse DringoliTechnical Support Manager, OpenFlowsBentley Communities Site AdministratorBentley Systems, Inc.
Jesse Dringoli said:We (Bentley) encourage questions and discussions, but in order to ensure that they come to our attention (and other users willing to help), the questions should be posted to the Forum. The green banner at the top of the blog is a link to the respective Forum
Which is good but no use if you don't respond!