Comments or not?

A week ago, a friend from work wrote a post on a blog. Her comment was about a product that she found a little bit boring and that she doesn't understand the hype around this project.

Suddenly there was a new comment on her post from one of the 'important' paticipants in the blog community who wrote: 'boo to mean commenters!'

I am really irritated about this. If I write a comment it's my belief, i don't want to diss somebody, i want to share or discuss arguments. This comment has induced me to challenge what we expect from the comments.

My point of view is, there is a lot of work for a fluid blog. To be honest, I'm also happy, if somebody writes a nice and personally comment, but I am also interessted in straightforward comments and critics. And yes, normally I write comments when I like something or when I am impressed about a work. I think it is harder work, to grapple with a project; but it would be terrific to get also critical words.

I want to ask you dear bloggers, what do you expect from comments?

Comments

[valentino]

normally I only post a comment when i like an article on a blogg... but you are right, actually critics could be more helpful! Thx!

[M&Co]

I didn't quite get this? Was the "Boo-comment" ment for the blogger, or some comment that was left on the post?
Anyway, my belif is that constructive critique is necessary for development, and so is also appraisal. Political blogs seems more open for discussions, while design and lifestyle blogs usually have more friendly comments... But I enjoy the positiv vibe of our blog community; its inspiering, positive and unjudgemental - and were do you get that in real life? ;-)

[Tilda B. Hervé]

dear monica. I also enjoy the positiv vibes in designblogs and I think it is an extra to reallife critics.
>> the boo was ment to the critic commenter.

[Emma ::emmas designblogg::]

In the beginning of my blogging "career" I tried to leave comments that would start a discussion or just make people think a little. But that wasn't very popular... For some reason only positive comments are allowed in the design blog community. I find this quite boring sometimes, but other days I can totally appreciate all the positive feed back that goes around everywhere.

I myself would love to get a little contructive critisism on my blog. What if I get lost on a track that none of my readers appreciate? Or if I write about something that is really bad in one way or the other, without me knowing it?