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In 2014, after 10 years of writing my business and marketing blog, I decided to stop allowing comments. For some readers, this seemed counter to one of the fundamental principles of blogging, which is to create a dialogue. Was it because I thought I was too important to answer comments, or was there something else at work?

The reason I stopped was simple. I had noticed a steady decline in the quality of comments over the 10 years that I had been blogging. What was once a robust discussion that involved thoughtfully worded responses had devolved into a combination of thumbs-up style comments and spam.

Thanks to anonymous commenting and the ease of sharing knee-jerk responses, comments had become thoughtless instead of thoughtful—and people were starting to notice. So I turned off the comments.

Being thoughtful means taking the time to reflect on a point of view and share it in a considered way.

The web is filled with this type of “conversation.” Angry, biased, half thought out responses to articles, people or media. Being thoughful is harder to do when everyone seems to expect thinking to come in real time.

Yet the people who are routinely thoughtful are the ones who gain and keep respect. They add value instead of noise...and you can be one of them.