I am still here but also busy with daily life issues

I'm not sure if this answers your question or not James

There are quite a few people, myself included who are working on their own business outside of WA, in my case I run an online ecademy, which takes up a lot of time, such as doing videos and building up my Twitter accounts, as everything I do daily is geared towards rankings and brand awareness, so not always have the time for website comments, though when I get notified of them, respond in a timely manner

Equally, I read a lot of blogs during the day and get leverage and traction that way

Thats my input anyway, for what its worth

I feel that there seems to be a fear to offer comments now because of rejection. Also, there are some who have been pretty vocal about saying comment quality has been low and they intend to reject. Actually, for myself, I've been back using the "give and take" thread for comments - both giving as getting.

I find it comes and goes when there is commenting availability. I find that I can ask for one comment and get many more comments.
The problem I seem to have is that of those many comments, at least half are low quality. A couple of sentences in total mentioning the title of my post and quoting a few words from the article is not helpful.
I can’t even edit that without making up my own comment. I have over half a dozen comments I can’t use just kind of sitting because I can’t disapprove the comments without having to explain. It seems like more work than the effort put into the comment itself.

I cut way back since WA changed the comments and feedback rules and as a result, members started breezing through giving comments and feedback as quickly and often as they can to rack up more credit, with no thought to quality or actually spending time on the sites.

I’m a little confused and first thought it was an April Fools Day joke. Site comments have been working fine for me. WA actually made it much easier to give and receive comments . I’ve had such a better experience with getting site comments since they implemented this. I sometimes even get 2 or 3 when I I’ve requested just one.

WA is basically a family of like-minds, so it's not strange to have the same people follow you about, maybe because they like your contents.

My big problem is actually getting sites to comment on because the majority come through just after midnight. I haven't learned to comment in my sleep!

I think, like fashion, these things come and go. I used to leave and request comments all the time, but now I don't. No real reason.

We did go through a period of spam comments and that was pretty bad. It put a lot of people off at the time.

But I think that's all in the past now.

Maybe I'll get back into it. Probably still got 20 credits or so.

Thanks for this post. It might encourage me to comment again.

I was using it a lot until a month or so ago. I actually stopped as I wanted to get a handle on how much traffic I was getting to my site without the inflated figures from comments. I will crank it back up again soon.

I was actually pleasantly surprised with the traffic levels without comments but they a definitely a good rankings booster. Hopefully the quality has returned a bit too...

Paul