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On a new site I’m building, it has a blog which will allow comments and it also has some other sections in which I’ll be posting articles, but I’m stuck on whether or not to allow comments in these sections since technically isn’t the “blog” and I always think of a blog when I think of articles with commenting enabled.

Just curious on everyone’s thoughts on this.

I think it totally depends on the exact content. Blogs obviously but some other editorial/articles may lend themselves. Can’t see most pages/content on a brochureware type site having comments though.

I recently merged my articles and blog sections, but no, the blog had comments, the article section didn’t.

I have built several sites now with EE and none of them have had comments until I added it only this week to a site I am building - so not you don’t have to have them!

However in your case I think comments on articles is a great idea as you will have a good long topic to create discussions and you can build on this to create a community around your site - good example of this are the articles on http://www.alistapart.com. Next issue then is when to turn the comments off. With articles I would leave them always open or until a newer article supercedes the first one (and then link them). Blog type diary posts though I would turn off within a short amount of time to keep to activity on the newer posts.

Of course everyone does it differently!