I just figured this out...
I love getting comments. And I love to respond to comments. I tend to do this in the form of email. Someone leaves a comment on the blog, it gets emailed to me, I hit reply and send a response back. I do this for almost every comment.
Now, I don't expect people to respond every time I write, "Thanks for entering!" or something mundane like that. But there have been times I've typed out a whole response and sent it off only to get nothing back from the commenter.
No big deal, I told myself. Maybe not everyone wants to email back and forth with a crazy wanna-be-writer girl they've never met. Then I realized today that not all my email replies make it back to the original commenter. If the person doesn't have a publicly viewable email address, the replies go to noreply-comment@blogger.com.
Oh, noreply-comment, how many of my witty remarks and Harry Potter-induced squee-fests have you intercepted? Somewhere there is a massive inbox of emails about Jane Austen and Halloween costume ideas that no one will ever read. Sad lonely emails just floating around lost in cyberspace.
I'm mainly posting this for other bloggers who, like me, didn't know they were replying to a non-person (if the address in the To: window comes up as noreply-comment, then your emails are all for not). Or for bloggers who would like to make their email addresses public (just go to your Dashboard, click "Edit Profile," and then check the box the box that says "Show my email address"). Or for my many loyal commenters who continue to visit and read my posts or, even worse, asked me direct questions I failed to answer. I'm sorry! I assure you all, I love and appreciate you and would love to chat it up with you online. If only there was a easier way!
Any other bloggers have suggestions on how they reply to comments? Do you do it all through email? Do you reply directly in your comments thread? Are there other secret options I just don't know about yet?
-- Lisa
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