Some posts, I respond on the blog, like the dancing ones because I don’t really want to start a correspondence about them, which sometimes happens when you respond via email.

Ok enough about me. I just basically agree with you is all. LOL

I used to follow the rule, you comment, I follow, but even that is really hard to keep up with. My thinking is the same as yours though – going to that person’s blog and reading and sharing a comment is the best thing.

No matter what, I always feel guilty when it comes to commenting etiquette. I don’t want my readers to think they are commenting into a black void. People have gone so far as to ask if I even READ my comments, which is a total insult. It’s something I always struggle with.

I rarely comment back to my commenters. Sometimes, I comment back and forth to their blog, but I do love the communication with others around the world.

About point 1: I do come back to posts often to read the comments a day later. When I post has inspired me, then I do like to see what others think about it. I love to read answers to my comments (on blogs that do so or in an e-mail or in a chat session or … ) or to read the other comments and their replies. Other people can be so encouraging, cheerful, witty, …. and it’s a good way to discover other bloggers as well through their comments. And I actually love it when reader comment on other comments as well. It makes a blog rather than a one to one collection of relationships into an interactive community all triggered by a post. I think that’s neat. I also reply to the replies on my comment. I guess I like to see/start little conversations.

but I understand the difficulty of responding to “woohoo” comments. Such comments are great but do not require a reply.