As I am getting back in the saddle of blogging, I am wondering how I might boost the commenting on this site.  When it was predominately content about WP-Members, there were always a lot of comments – mostly in terms of support questions, which is what eventually led me to launching rocketgeek.com to handle WP-Members support.

Now that I am back to focusing my posting on WordPress, blogging, and plugin development, I am hoping to also boost comments.  Is that too ambitious?

I remember a while back that I read a guest post on Darren Rowse’s blog about automatically closing comments after a certain number of days in order to boost comments.  The theory was/is that this helps push users to more recent posts to continue the discussion.

That sounds reasonable.  I am wondering if it works.  Does anyone have any experience with that?  Has it worked for you?

I’ve also recently installed Disqus to manage comments.  I am hoping that leads to better discussion (and hopefully easier for me to manage).  I’m open to comments on Disqus, too, for those that have experience with it, good or bad.