I am in agreement with you to some degree, though, that when you visit a blog and they don’t comment at all ever to you, that it is a bit discouraging and makes you wonder why you even take the time for them…although on the other hand…sorry, I could go on for a while on this, but bottom line: What works for me and you might not work for others, and that’s all right.

For every comment that is left by someone new, their link goes on our blogroll for future reference. And then I go visit and leave them a comment.

I try to leave a comment for each blog in my Reader every few weeks if they are posting something of interest to me and I can add something to the point. Reading all those posts and keeping up with comments is time consuming, but at this point for me I feel it is vital to my goal of building our blog in the community in order to entertain and meet as many diverse and interesting bloggers as possible.

I am always interested in learning how other bloggers handle time management. Something always has to give. Comments come after posting for me – but a close second. Thanks for sharing your approach!

Thanks for saying what so many of us are feeling.

The number of comments I get is never huge unless for a giveaway, but I know that they go down when I’m not as active commenting myself. I’m okay with that. This is a hobby for so many of us. If this starts to feel more like a job than something we enjoy, nothing good comes of it.

I really appreciate how you have spelled this out and I might just have to quote you and make that my commenting manifesto (with your approval of course).