Readers, Do You Like Being Ignored By Writers Or Authors?

Who wants to be ignored? As a reader, do you like it when writers or authors ignore you? Do you like feeling like you don’t matter and they don’t care about you at all? What exactly does that mean? What am I talking about?

Some readers take the time and effort to comment on articles they read

You know when you read an article or post or whatever you want to call it, and there’s a comments section at the end? You take the time to read the article and then decide that you liked it enough to leave a comment. Or maybe you have a question and you think the author of the piece sounds like an expert or that they know what they’re talking about, so you decide to ask and see if they can help you.

The least writers and authors can do is reply to their readers and visitors

As a reader, don’t you hate it when writers or authors don’t bother to reply to the questions and comments that you took the time and effort to leave on their articles?

What should happen after you comment? What do you expect or what do you think will happen? Do you want to get a response to your comment? Or will it not matter to you in the least if the writer doesn’t reply to your comment? This is where the being ignored part comes in.

There are many writers or authors who don’t bother to respond to the comments left by their readers. All the comments just accumulate or pile up in their articles and they don’t seem to care; they won’t respond. If they won’t bother to reply, then why would they leave the comments section open in their articles?

Don’t ignore those who bother to comment on your posts

For me, as a reader, I hate feeling or being ignored. If you take the time and effort to comment on someone else’s article, don’t you want that person to at least take the time to acknowledge your words? If you asked a question, don’t you want an answer? This is why I always respond to all the comments that I get on my articles.

Of course, I understand that the replies can’t always happen right away. I also take the time to reply to comments depending on the circumstances. For example, I might have missed the email that I have new comments on my articles or I might be busy with other tasks, etc.

Also, I can’t always check, but when I see that I have a comment on any one of my articles, I respond; I’ll always reply even if it might take some time. If someone doesn’t bother to respond to comments, it makes me want to avoid their articles or at least not bother to comment anymore. I mean, why should I bother to say anything if no one is going to respond anyway? What do you think?

To add: check out this post to see the results for this poll back when it used to be made using Opinion Stage.

*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by hayashinomura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to symbolize the authors who ignore their readers or those who bother to comment on their articles because the figure is facing the other way
- The second image was made using the free site called Quozio
- This was previously published elsewhere