"Cultivate an engaged, loyal readership" ... by paying some of them to visit and comment?!
I mean, I can see the pain here (anyone seen the last 74 commentless blog posts on my website? No, didn't think so). (And if I really wanted to "Get the conversation started" I could just wind back my spam filter a little and save the expense.) So I think ProComments is a specious solution to the problem; and I'm willing to be disproved.
Seeding good conversation on your blog? Not a chance.
The idea of buying comments ain't bad though if all you want to do is give the impression of activity on a site.
Not having a good conversation on an average blog just means this is not a good medium for such conversation. Instead of artificially pumping faked content we should strive to hack a better medium.
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[ 10.3 ms ] story [ 1568 ms ] threadI mean, I can see the pain here (anyone seen the last 74 commentless blog posts on my website? No, didn't think so). (And if I really wanted to "Get the conversation started" I could just wind back my spam filter a little and save the expense.) So I think ProComments is a specious solution to the problem; and I'm willing to be disproved.
To me, the wording similarity to "Prostitutes" is too glaring to be a mere accident.