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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There are two reasons why bloggers didn’t comment back when you comment their old posts:

1- They are careless of their readers.

2- They don’t know that you have posted a comment. But this is not really a reason because, most if not all blog systems can send you an email of the new comments.

So, we were probably talking about an utopia.