Reflections on the challenge so far
On Day 7 of the comment challenge we were asked to reflect on the challenge so far. I found it interesting that apparently most people haven’t cited time issues as the reason they might not have commented a lot in the past. Seems most folks are sometimes hesitant to express their opinions as comments.
My own reduction in commenting this year has purely been a time issue - and related specifically to my lack of time for blog reading. Basically, if I read a blog post and have any thoughts on the matter, I’m happy to comment. Not backwards about coming forwards, that’s me! 
I’m not sure I can put my finger on specific things that’s I have learnt during the challenge so far. I have certainly appreciated the fact that the challenge has given me the impetus to keep up with my edublog reading more consistently lately. And I have found it interesting to track my comments through cocomment.
I spent some time yesterday using it to go back through all the ‘conversations’ to read the comments that came after mine, and in some cases, that caused me to go back to the post and contribute further. It has been a very positive tool.
I did find it difficult to find a post to disagree with, which was one of the challenge tasks. I’m not sure I really succeeded - I made a comment that was mildly disagreeing with one blogger, but they have not responded at all. Ironically, they did email me with a helpful response about another comment I wrote on a different post, so the lack of reply seems fairly deliberate.
Life has gotten in the way lately, and I’m a day or two behind on the challenge at the moment. I’m looking forward to posting about the Day 9 challenge - should blogs even have comments? Check back tomorrow for that one…
Definitely, not getting an answer when you disagree with a post is REALLY annoying. Why do some blogger think we MUST agree?
Maybe a solution in this case would be to invite more people to participate in the conversation, and force the blogger to answer/participate too.
If he realize that more readers disagree, he will have two choice: do nothing and take the risk to loose readers, participate and show that his blog is worth to be read.
It wasn’t that much of a contentious issue - certainly nothing to cause a heated debate over. I just found it interesting it didn’t get any response - from the author or anyone else. I certainly dont think it reflects badly on the author at all - his blog is interesting and he is very helpful.