Fred On Something'sComments

Why should I comment old posts?

Fred asks what could be the solutions to these problems. I think a solution could be both human and technological change. When a blogger realize that comments are integral part of a post (human change), he will seek for tools to notice the presence of new comments, then web developers community will find a easy-to-use tool to achieve it. What can we do? Talking about it, like I’m doing right now.
I’d like to add some points to Fred’s post.
It’s not easy to face the whole thing, because there are many different kinds of blogs, each one with different peculiarities. There are literary blogs, where the comments could never add something useful to the post, but just feelings, liking or disliking; there are humour blogs, where the commenters will try to seem as funny as the author; there are (millions of) personal intimacy blogs, where the commenters could only express momentary thoughts or advices, and so on.
I’ll exclude these kinds of blogs, because in these cases it’s not important, IMHO, putting comments when the posts get old.
I agree with Fred’s post just with information or knowledge related blogs.
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I’ll put some of my thoughts

Feelings of people are information. Possibly not for you, but for some peoples it can be the information they search for. For a survey for example. Everything can be information. Some can be more important then other; everything depends of the context.

The problem with such blogging system is that there are other ways to handle blog’s spam messages. I don’t think that bloc old posts commenting is a good thing considering the fact that there are other systems to prevent comment spamming.

Some posts are information less like: “you done a good job”. But generally you comment on posts to add something to it; your vision of the thing.

You are right for the point 4.

6 -> Sure, but if you have a system to give back life to old posts, then, the old one is not old anymore because he got a new life, a new visibility. It’s a paradox or something like this… its strange when you think about it