The idea of this post came from Stephanie’s comment. I’ve always read on the WWW that it was good to reply to comments because it promotes conversations between the author and readers and encourages the readers to comment more often. Some people even took it another step farther to email the replies to their readers, which made sense to me. How else would the readers know that you’ve replied (unless of course, they’re constantly checking your blog)? I know that if I were the reader, I’d love to get an email reply back. It shows that the author cares, and that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. 
I’m not saying that Stephanie meant anything by her comment, but it did get me thinking about the other side of this issue: What if some people didn’t want these email replies? They might consider it spam or an invasion of their privacy, I don’t know. But I do know that I don’t want to cause any unnecessary misunderstandings and problems because of something as harmless as an email reply.
My question for you guys (ok, so I ask a lot of questions, but I like to hear opinions, whether they agree with me or not) is: Would you want to receive email replies to your comments? Why or why not? I actually use a Grease Monkey (a Firefox plugin) script called WordPress Ninja to reply to your comments, and it gives me the option to email the reply directly to you, post it as a reply comment, or do both. Usually I try to do both, but if your comment was something like “Nice layout! Great work!”, then I’d feel a little silly emailing you “Thanks.” 
Also, um, I’m scared of emailing some people in case they go *wtfspamdeletesandblocks* on me, which would be the last thing I want.
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