Comments Awaiting Moderation

Two people left comments on the Writing Studio Blog towards the end of last month (April), comments that Blogger caught and flagged for moderation. They were on a post on which I had called for comments in February, March, and early April (post and comments).I found their comments Awaiting Moderation under the Comments tab in the Writing Studio Blog dashboard, shown in the picture below.

As you can see in the list above, each comment included no more than one word, "Hello." Yet I wonder why the authors of those comments wrote nothing more, such as "questions about any part of the Writing Studio Blog" (Welcome from Voki), or "what ... [they'd] found [most surprising] as [they'd] looked around the Writing Studio Blog" (follow up comment by pab, April 13, 2011).

If the authors of those as yet unpublished comments are around, I'd like to hear back from them here, on this post (Comments Awaiting Moderation; May 8, 2011). I'd like to get follow-up comments from them, explaining what they were thinking when they made such minimal comments, so long after their classmates and peers had looked around the Writing Studio Blog, and chimed in with interesting and thoughtful comments of their own.

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