People visit your blog and subscribe only because they like what you write, not because a lot others have subscribed, that’s true. But even if you have great content, when a reader finds out that none reads it, the evil part of his brain tells him, “Dude, no one reads his stuff, leave, leave…” That’s common human psychology.
Greet First Time Commentators without a Plugin
Usually, when a comment is held for moderation, you get the message ‘Your comment is awaiting moderation’. Well, this doesn’t help us much; some may not even understand what that mean. The idea is to edit that default message and display a friendly hello message as above.