Do girls get more comment then boys, because of their gender?

Without a doubt they do.

These Men they do lurk in expectation of a reciprocation.

@Shreya,

Both of your conclusion are way, way off the target...

Anyway, lets not fall victim to the bug of generalization. Topic is *not* to ascertain whether a particular gender has brain and where it is located in other gender.

Do women get more hits or comments - Yes.

This sample is too small to profile major reasons; suggest a poll if you want to nail the top 3 or 5 reasons.

Cheers,Sachin

i was kidding.peace.

So conclusion upto now?women don't have brains? or men have their brains lodged safely between *coughs* their lower limbs?

hey guys (Murli and Vasu) take up your flirting offline, many under18 are here on indiblogger

and Vasu, i thanked you when you reviewed my blog  

and a suggestion, when you are posting your blog on the same topic include this discussion link also... some people will find it interesting i guess

Will do Sweta, and that's why I am not posting it yet...I want more views and critical ones :)

And yes you thanked me, but somebody else did not. Not that its a big deal, but still have to mention it as Murali raised the point of etiquette.

Cheers!

Vasu

@Sachin: You reflect my view points very well, when you talk about not looking at things in black & white, & content not being a slave of one’s gender. Well said!

@Sonia: Essentially men and women are born with different capabilities, but different professions or task, demand us to use a part of our brain which is typically used by the other sex.

For example, it is heartening to see women professionals who are very successful in what were traditionally male dominated for many centuries (Sports, Warfare, Police, Politics, just to name a few). They made it because they did not want to be bogged down by a clichéd view that women were not capable of some tasks.

Similarly, some of the greatest writers, musicians, artists and story tellers have been sensitive men, who understood the human emotions very well. None of these men who have given us such brilliant literary, or artistic masterpieces, would have made it in life, if they thought that a man cannot express his emotion.

So, getting back to the post, it is true that women’s blogs get more attention (and that it comes mostly from jobless men and the sisterhood!), but let us accept that trivial reality, strive to make our blogs better, and contribute to the wealth of the blogosphere.

And that is irrespective of our gender :)

Cheers!

Vasu

Hi Sweta / Everyone on this forum,

Topic is indeed contentious... but we can't everything in black or white.. Life is more in Grey... ;)

Having said that, blogging is a form of social networking sans the privacy controls of other social networking forms like twitters, facebooks and orkuts of the world. Opposite sex attracts each other is a proven fact. Girls receiving scores of 'fraandship' requests on facebook justifies it.  Through a blog, you get to know a lot about a stranger/ individual, even if you are not known to her/him or connected to her/him in some way. Exactly that is the motivation. In order to strike a connection, a guy is more likely to go checkout a girl's blog rather than a guy's. I am pretty sure a girl would do the same. Remember, people who don't try, get nothing!! ;)

Whether it fulfills their need for getting the right content is debatable. Lets not get into 'girls are better, boys are better' debate. Content is not a slave of one gender.  It's a personal matter on who you want to read. May be what is crap to you, makes sense to someone. 

Assuming there are more number of guys blogging, the trend would continue for sometime. For Guys, need to be innovative and creative in marketing their blog.

Cheers,

Sachin

P.S. I agree for stickiness, try generating better content. 

lolll  wen people cant think of nethin, dey play the "gender" card haha. Gender pros n cons exist from the minutest of activities to some of the most important of tasks. Even if a gal gets credit 4 her work, etc based purely on her own qualities, people will consider it as a "gender" bias instead of actually giving it a thought that that gal mite have actually had the capability n etc etc :p. So wen pple around u dont get it ;) haha fuhget their comments n njoy d so-called-gender-preference as dey say lollll ;)...!!!

i respect your view point, but God has kept that difference in the genders, about emotions and expression,

still i agree that writing is a skill which canalways be developed

have a gr8 day!

this is true, because girls write better than boys and thus get more comments, they r definately more expressive and emotional in writing

I disagree...your writing ability is irrespective of your gender. There are two kind of cliched comments I have seen in this conversation: A. FROM men who suggest girls get more comments only because they are girls, even if they write trash, B. FROM girls who suggest that ONLY they can be more expresive, share emotions etc

The truth lies in the middle...:)

Cheers!

Vasu

n so it begins... muhahahaha..

(Evil Grin :P)

Guys Don't deviate from the topic....

and girls where you all are...????? come fight our sisterhood

Thats cos MCP sounds much better than CP...anyways the PJ was to cool down some fiery responses expected tomorrow morning....we are deviating far too much from the topic, but its fun :)

What i would love to know is, if a guy had posted the same question here, how many would think of him as a chauvinistic pig?

Hehe...good point!

I strongly believe that the world is thrown into trouble by MCPs on one end , and firbrand feminists on the other;  and those in the midle face the music from both ends :)

Cheers!

Vasu

not just chauvinist pig dude Male Chauvinist Pig!!!

Women love to add that prefix! They never say those last two words without the first...............I dunno why..................

n btw well said 

Wow addy you know females very well.

that's why people say, experience speaks

Vijay, read carefully, the question was put forth to sweta by a third person.we definitely think he's an MCP(please sweta, tell me its a he!)

Addy, actually chauvinism is not always in context to male-giri(don't ask.couldn't come up with any better term).a person may be a religious chauvinist or a national chauvinist or heck!even a female chauvinist. So it actually mekes sense to call someone a MCP if thats what he is!

of course, it was a he only shreya

of course, it was a 'he' only shreya

Here is a quick reality check, at the risk of harping on the same point: Check another equally good forum topic posted by Karan A at http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=5034

His question is "What motivates you more: Promote on Indiblogger or a comment on your post?", and to me it is an equally good topic / question as what we are discussing here.

He has received 2 responses and this post has received a whopping 76 as of now.

I am merely stating the facts here, and not passing any value judgement :)

I have done my bit by responding to him as well

We may or may not choose to do anything about it, but kindly stop pretending that women getting more attention online is not true!

Cheers!

Vasu

P.S: I am wishing the blogging brotherhood and sisterhood enthusiastically to Karan 's post!

Vasu, Its also funny cuz here too, most responses are from men.:P

Sweta, thank you.I rest my case!:D

Oh yeah Shreya, there is no denying that and I've mentioned as much who is the culprit here...my tribe can be pretty funny :)

but instead of there being a sisterhood n a brotherhood..cant we figure out someway to make a bloggerhood?

I mean if we bloggers dont look after each other no one will

Girls getting more comments, with prettier profile pics getting even more is a fact. It may sound absurd and unwanted but the fact remains so. If it was just 'Tiwari ' and a bald headed dark guy's pic on the profile, I bet the replies would have been far less (including minus one from my side :P).

Anywaz folks, I am new to this forum and world of blogging, just happened to stumble on this piece.

Smiles

Abid

http://galli-number-3.blogspot.com/

Interesting topic and I have been casually talking about this through various blog comments.

I am going to write a mini blog on this here:

People blog with multiple objectives and agendas in mind, or some just do it for fun. You get what you want and push for.

Some do it for the money (Adsense) and that is a factor of page ranks, visitors etc.  In such case you may not care about the comments

Some do it to rant, typically women, but some male bloggers like me do that as well. So when you share an experience, or a rant, or a view on something, it is much more fun to have comments and a conversation going. So here, the more comments there are the merrier, and women have a definitive advantage there. Let’s get real and accept that if you have two blogs of the same kind of content, level of writing, level of PR, the one by the girl is likely to have more visitors and commentators. I have no problems with that, but pretending that’s not the case is naive!

Some like to discuss a serious topic, and even here the comments are critical. But a caveat here is the quality of comments. Women and men are equally capable of writing on a serious topic, but a girl’s blog is more likely to be flooded with silly, attention seeking and non value adding comments (from my tribe of course!). So I am happy to be a man in this aspect. I mean, if I push my brain and pour  my heart out on a topic like the naxalite issue, or a career discussion, or about governance, and get a comment like “LOL :)”,or “You write so well”, or “Dats a cool one”, I would be tearing my hair apart :)

Good content is the nucleus of a blog, and anybody can have good content – man, woman, kiddo, oldies. How popular your blog is a factor of how you package it (style, themes etc), how much effort you do in PR and networking by reading and commenting on other blogs, and who you are (cute girl/ hot man, or average looking person).

You could be an average looking dude, but have great content, do the right things, and persist with blogging and commenting, and you will end up with a gold mine of a blog.

But that doesn’t give you the right to resent a chick who writes a rant blog and gets a million visitors...some basic laws of nature don’t change, and that’s how things have been in the world ever since the days of Adam and Eve!

Some of the best blogs are written by people who have good reading and writing skills, network well with the blogging community, and package their stuff well. And that could be irrespective of your gender.

Footnote: I wonder how many comments this topic would have got if it was posted by a guy, rather than Sweta. My guess is not more than 2/3...this is just for a chuckle, don’t kill me for this!

Cheers!

Vasu

http://vasusworld.wordpress.com/

hey vasu,

you are putting so much of effort here, the same you could have posted on your blog

@Sweta: I like to study and learn how people respond to this post and then use that to write my own blog. Its my way of doing research before hitting the publish button :)

Cheers!

Vasu

I closed the deal long before! whats the fuss about still??

Lets stop being  idealistic for a sec and get practical..

Girls do get more comments..

open answer Saurabh

As Shreys said I have noticed the 'sisterhood' among female bloggers which is less among male bloggers. And as Addy said, its a bit of a harmone issue.

Good point...But I am completely forgetting the corerct spelling of hormone after reading all the comments above :)

Well, I have noticed that in blogger there is a sort of sisterhood thats absent in male bloggers.There are certain blogs like "receipts of a boyfriend shopper" that are extremely famous in the blogosphere. and the promotion is all through the sistahs.if girls get more comments its not necessarily from boys who are trying to impress them but rather from girls who connect with their emotions in a way *most* guys never can.

well said

Agree... !!

@Sweta: Does it happen is what you ask. It is true and that is what i have seen. I joined 20 something bloggers a few months ago. I was pretty surprised when i saw the volume of female bloggers around. I sincerely believe that there are more woman bloggers than male bloggers. having said that, it is obvious that they get more comments.:)

And we all know what a big relief it was to the gender "Female" group when orkut came up with scrap privacy and image privacy. We all know there are souls out there, looking out for genders. So, don't you think that ablog is a good way to get that? And so the number game of comments.....

How many have you seen out there who read to know what you are upto, what scored for you in the day and what made you go nuts...? I believe not many.

But yeah, one should ignore all this and just enjoy the followers and the joy of a good nice comment because with time, such fllukes fade off. Being the way one is all that matters. Cheers!!!

I think I can conclude the discussion now..........

1. Everyone believes that content is the KING!!
2. Girls/Female Bloggers get more comments than boys/male bloggers
3. Pretty girls get more comments than an average girl
4. Even more if she replies to those overwhelming and flirtatious comments
5. Bloggers believe Indirank is a female!

That is what I have concluded from the discussion in this thread 

You forgot the final conclusion - everyone who responded with a yes potentially pissed off a couple of feminists and they will never visit your blog again.

good conclusion....

but who ever replied with yes they should think first, do they visit girl bloggers post for contents or........

think think