Regarding Comments!

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   ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years ago

   Hi Fellow Writer Friends!
   Recently, I noticed one comment on my latest article, from some visitor, outside of HubPages. It was at least one week old. I followed the procedure (OTP etc.) and responded to the comment.
   Then, I thought of checking my other posts to see if there were comments on them. And, there were at least three more on various posts, some of them even four months old.
   It’s a time taking process to check each and every article, to see, if there are any comments or questions.
   Wouldn’t it be nice, if we get notifications through email, if someone has commented on our posts?

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      Jodahposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you for mentioning this, Chitrangada. I will have to check some of my articles, but it is impossible to check them all. I guess I can restrict it to those that have had the most recent views. I do wish we could be notified though by email. I don't see why that is so difficult.

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         ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you John for responding.

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      bravewarriorposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      The problem is, neither the author nor the commentor are notified. There's no point in returning the ability to comment, if neither party is notified. They should have left it the way it was.

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         ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Hello Shauna!
         Yes, it’s pointless to expect that things will change.
         Thank you for responding.

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      nisargmehtaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I thought Hubpages had disabled Comments section for all, but now I'm finding out it's in my articles only, even in featured ones. Tried to find the option to enable it but no luck. Why is that? Can anyone please help?

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         Jodahposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         There is no option to enable it. Comments are enabled on Letterpile (where you have some articles) but not on HubPages or Discover.

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            nisargmehtaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Oh.. Alright. This was a bit riddling. Thanks.

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            Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            But comment is also enable on WanderWisdom, AxleAddict, and Delishably.                                       And, since hubpages came under maven and the Arena Group, HubPages can't initiate the comment system. We're all kept in  limbo.

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               nisargmehtaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               Now I'm riddled again.. It's becoming a rollercoaster ride

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                  Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

                  Yes, a real roller coaster ride. And, wondering when comment will ever  become a full realty, especially on hubpages, the mother site.                                         And besides, you'll continue to be riddle, as long as you're on hubpages...take it easy before comment is restored.

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      LHwritingsposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Comment sections at the bottom of articles used to be commonplace when I started on HubPages about 10 years ago. Comments are useful because they enable you to respond to inquiries, provide more info, build a relationship with your readership, etc. I dunno why HubPages discontinued this capability.
      
      A Forum thread on comments dated 14 months ago mentioned that HubPages were promising that Comments would be reinstated in "June". I presume that meant June 2021 (?). Well, of course that's "done come and gone". (Or as they say today "done come and went").
      
      In that same thread an HP staffer, Paul Edmondson, reported: "We are testing comments on a site called MishTalk. We have more moderation capabilities to build, but comments will return." So, I wonder if anything came of that ...
      
      Here's a related question: How do readers become Followers? This also used to be easy, with a very visible link in every article, but I don't see any readily obvious way to do this now. Help appreciated.
      
      Thanks — Lyndon

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         ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Hello Lyndon (LHwritings),
         Thank you for sharing your thoughts in this thread.
         I don’t think comments section will be restored.
         To answer your question at the end— While reading the articles on the niche sites, if you click on the author’s name, you will be taken to the author’s bio page. But it’s not possible to follow the author from there, as there is no link back. 
         Whenever, I want to follow a writer, I search them on the feed, and it takes me to their profile page, where I can find the Follow option.
         The search option is both on the top left and right side, when you are viewing the HubPages feed.
         Hope that helps.
         Thank you and best wishes.
         —Chitrangada Sharan

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            LHwritingsposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks Chitrangada,
            
            I'll give your tips a try. But for the average reader, it sounds like trying to follow a Hub writer is like trying to get into a bank vault.
            
            Lyndon

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      Thelma Albertsposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Chitrangada!
      
      It would be nice if we are notified that comments are coming on our articles. It would be a lot of work to check all the new comments on our hubs. I have not done that yet. I will do it if I have time.

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         ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Hi Thelma!
         You are right. It’s not possible to keep on checking the new comments, if they are there. Thank you for responding to the thread.

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      Joshua Crowderposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Does anyone know if it is against any rules to leave a link in an article to a blog post to have a discussion? I'll have to look that up. I just started blogging about my articles and would like to link to the blog for more viewer interaction.
      
      I have over 100 featured articles but can't receive comments on any of them.

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         DrMark1961posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         There are rules against linking to some sites but as far as I know there is nothing about this. Since it would be just a not about leaving comments I think it would be fine.
         It certainly would be worth trying and the worst that can happen is that some editor would snip it. (If you get some very good comments you might go back in and add a frequently asked questions section on each article. Google seems to rate articles with comment higher, perhaps because they do have a lot of FAQs in them.)

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            PaulGoodman67posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            "Google seems to rate articles with comments higher"
            
            Yeah, this is why I'm surprised in some ways that HP haven't done more to facilitate comments. The only assumption that I can draw is that the SEO benefits from comments are outweighed by the comments that contain spam in HP's case, and they've not found a way around it.

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               DrMark1961posted 3 years agoin reply to this

               I look over the old comments when I read articles here and have seen a lot of incorrect information and off-the-cuff answers, so maybe TAG does not want them because of that reason. I am not sure though, as the added spam links must have been a real headache to clean up every day.

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   Pamela99posted 3 years ago

   I agree that would be nice. I will. have to take a look at my comments when I get a chance. I haven't done that at all. Thanks for the information.

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Pamela for responding.

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   Jodahposted 3 years ago

   I checked my most recent half a dozen articles and found one had a comment, so replied to that.

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Good— I have also checked only around 10 of them. There may be more.

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   ravirajan01posted 3 years ago

   Thanks for mentioning this Chitrangada.Let me also for comments. I wish the process was a bit more simpler

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Raviji for responding.

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   Vanita Thakkarposted 3 years ago

   Chitrangadaji, I posted a comment in your article on ABC challenge today morning. I hope you have read it. I add something more to it here - the quotes you have included in the article are beautiful. I liked them all. I had missed mentioning this when I wrote the comment in a hurry today morning.
   I agree that it would be much easier for us to interact with fellow writers or readers if notifications about comments will be sent by email.
   I wonder if there are any comments in any of my articles that I might have missed. Will have to check.
   Have a great day ahead!!

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Vanita for responding, and thanks for letting me know that you had commented. I hadn’t seen that earlier. Looking forward to read your response to the ABC challenge.

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   Miebakagh57posted 3 years ago

   Yes, hubpages should have to notify us by email when our articles were commented upon, by an outsider. A configuration should be configure into the scheme, for that purpose.                                           Chitrangadaji, thanks for informing us of this development. You're valuable to both the forum and the site.

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Miebakagh57 for responding.

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         Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         You're welcome.

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   jansharesposted 3 years ago

   Wow! Thanks, Chitrangada. If comments are back, that would be a game changer. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check, too.

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Hello Janis!
      Good to hear from you. I agree with your views. Thank you for responding.

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   PurvisBobbi44posted 3 years ago

   Chitrangada Good Morning from Florida,
   
   Yes, it should be done as a rule to keep communication within the Hubings community and outsiders. It is a surprise when I find a comment from someone, and I was not aware of it. I feel really bad if someone thought I was rude.
   
   Thanks for bring this up.
   
   Bobbi Purvis

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Hello Bobbi Purvis!
      I agree with you that if we don’t respond to the comments by the readers, it doesn’t look good. Notifications are important indeed.
      Thank you for responding.

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   Peggy Wposted 3 years ago

   I hope Matt or someone from HP reads this, and addresses the lack of notifications. We definitely need notifications as we had in the past.  For those of us with hundreds of articles, it would be impossible to find them all.  Also, one has to scroll down through so many ads to even get to the comment section.  It is amazing that anyone actually does that to even find the comment section and then leaves a comment.

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Hello Peggy!
      Exactly my thoughts—It’s so difficult to scroll down through all the ads, find the comment section, log in by filling in the OTP via email, then comment. This makes all the more important for us, the writers, to respond to those readers.
      Yes, I hope someone from HP reads this and responds.
      Thank you Peggy!

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    Brenda Arledgeposted 3 years ago

    If the team expects us to see those comments, they need to make it easier for us.
    It's such a hassle to randomly pull up articles.

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       I agree with you Brenda. Thank you for responding.

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    AliciaCposted 3 years ago

    I’m not criticizing anyone who’s posted in this thread because you have a valid concern, but we’ve been through this before. The site no longer seems to be interested in supporting its writers in more ways than one. Its transformation is sad.

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       Brenda Arledgeposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       So true Linda...
       I'm grew tired of waiting a long time ago.
       
         I put my trust in my fellow Hubbers...together we can make our writing soar.
       
       After all...we all want the same thing.

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          ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

          +++

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Hello Linda!
       Thank you for responding, and I agree with your observations.
       Sad indeed—-.

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    Joshua Crowderposted 3 years ago

    I’m glad you still have the comment option. All my articles say they have the comment capsule in my hubstats, but they are all missing!

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       Brenda Arledgeposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       We don't have the comment option.
       They've been working on it for a long time & it seems from this discussion that there are actually a few comments being posted...yet no one ever gets notified about them.. so it's pointless.
       
       We're all in the same boat.
       
       We use this forum to communicate by posting each others work

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Hello Joshua!
       Thank you for responding. Brenda has clarified on this and she is right.

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    Jodahposted 3 years ago

    It still seems pointless to be returning the comments to all the niche sites if they are just continuing doing it this way. It is too much trouble and the comment section is too hard to find after all the ads, around the web etc.
    It was perfect before all the changes. Without notifications there is no point in allowing comments, so you would think they would have worked out that part first.

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       bravewarriorposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Amen, my friend. Keep them live or kill them, as they've done.

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          ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

          ++

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Exactly my thoughts. Thank you John.

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    aesta1posted 3 years ago

    I didn’t know people can still make comments. That task of checking each article would be quite arduous. I’m glad you brought this up, Chitrangada. Hope they do something to notify us.

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Hello Mary!
       Thank you for responding. Best Wishes.

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    jansharesposted 3 years ago

    I wonder if the full return of comments and notifications is still in process. I looked randomly at mine and found that the comment section is only on LetterPile, Delishably, and Soapboxie. Maybe there's a plan.

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Hello Janis!
       Yes, you are right. The comment section is only on few niche sites.
       Thank you and good wishes.

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          Joshua Crowderposted 3 years agoin reply to this

          I can think a few ways to pull the comment data automatically from the webpages. I will write an article about it and share eventually. Just tracking on the amount of comments on a page should be enough.

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             nisargmehtaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

             Great!

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             ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

             ++

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    Miebakagh57posted 3 years ago

    The comments imposed on certain niches, according to hubpages are a trial.                                                Unless I'm wrong, when will the real thing happen? And, we've discuss the issue in more than one thread in the forum.                                               And, right from the days of Samartha, who was a leading editor at hubpages, and before she left, the arguement has taken much time than a covid-19 thread.                         Seriously, it's everyone's mindset that these comments questions, whether at hubpages, dot discover, or the niche sites, be resolve once and for all. Otherwise another thread on the debate, is soon on the way.

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    bhattucposted 3 years ago

    Wow great. Thanks.

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    DrMark1961posted 3 years ago

    This issue effects your SEO and thus the number of people who see your page. Here is a qoute from a SEO article:
    "140. Number of Comments: Pages with lots of comments may be a signal of user-interaction and quality. In fact, one Googler said comments can help “a lot” with rankings."
    https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors

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       Jodahposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       This is very interesting, DrMark. Surely TAG is aware of this. If not, they need to be.

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    Brenda Arledgeposted 3 years ago

    I personally am not taking the time to search through my articles...
    We need notifications if that is to be

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       Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Agreed. Settling your legal issue is foremost to you. Do it and make Ron smile the more. Much thanks.

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          Brenda Arledgeposted 3 years agoin reply to this

          Thanks for understanding Miebakagh

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             Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

             Brenda, you're welcome.

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    Poetic Phantomposted 3 years ago

    Hello ChitrangadaSharan
    I am back after a long time and disappointed to discover that comments are not yet restored properly. A notification I think is a must!

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       ChitrangadaSharanposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Hello Poetic Phantom!
       Good to know that you are back.
       Nothing can be done about our concerns.
       Keep up the good work. My best wishes to you.
       Happy Writing!

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    Miebakagh57posted 3 years ago

    Return of the Comment  System is becoming a regular feature on hubpages.                                       Quarter after quarter of the year, it's the same challenge, and the question continuue to date.                                             Methink the few that are restored on the niche sites are serving as the answer? Otherwise, why is it that it's taking Hubpages this long to restor the system on old HubPages, or Discover?

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       Brenda Arledgeposted 3 years agoin reply to this

       At this point...I'm good without them.
       
       Too tired of dealing with the issues.

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          Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

          Critically, and seriously too, and because questions on comments were related mostly to the old hubpages site, Hubpages should as a matter of prority restored the comment icon on discover.com                                    This resolve will end the challenge. I hope my foresight is correct?

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       Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

       Same day, I wrote team@hubpages.com to the attention of Matt on the issue.                                                 I hope to share his response, in a thread in the forum, not here.

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    theraggededgeposted 3 years ago

    Having had to deal with a trillion (feels like) edited articles over the last few days, one of the things editors aren't doing is to remove the text at the bottom of every article, inviting readers to leave a comment or ask a question.
    
    Well, it's not like I have anything better to do

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    Carb Divaposted 3 years ago

    In the "good old days" (pre-Maven) we were always notified when there were new comments. I have over 600 featured articles. There is no way to keep up with all of them. HP is well aware of the problem, but they do not care.

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    Miebakagh57posted 3 years ago

    I recently post a new discussion thread in the forum. That's up to us to know weather Hubpages care or not.                                                Happy Sunday, everyone.

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    Miebakagh57posted 3 years ago

    Is hubpages the only website online that is sensitive to spamming?                                       Spams not allowed, no spamming, is some rules on certain websites.                                 If you go against the rules, you incur a penalty. I can report email spam in gmail to Google, and it can be taken care of. But on HubPages, spammers and trolls seem to beat the system.

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